By Bryan Emmon Hall
String teachers know the value of scale practice in longitudinal development, but often struggle to instill this value in our students. We ... Read More...
By Cristina Schreil
It began with purple
Katja Goetz, who took over BAM in 2011 with her husband Robert, explains that founders Laurence and Philippe de Trogo... Read More...
By Thomas May
In the contemporary music world, writing opera tends to generate the sexiest headlines and, at least temporarily, to garner more widespread atten... Read More...
By James N. McKean
About ten miles north of Milan, Italy, is a small town named Monza. A rather nondescript place, it boasts a post office and a few stores and... Read More...
By Megan Westberg
Even professional violinists have to practice. It’s a consistent, integral thread in their lives that ties them firmly to their instrument, t... Read More...
By Inge Kjemtrup
It was a match made in heaven.
Or rather, it was a match made at the Tanglewood Festival that began when violinist Leonidas Kavakos, cellist ... Read More...
One of today’s most influential classical musicians, cellist David Finckel, is a busy man. His successful and long-standing career as performer, recording artis... Read More...
By Yevgeny Kutik
I am preparing Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82, for a concert with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and music d... Read More...
By Brian Wise
Crouched in a bunkbed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Szymon Laks could hear a rhythmic thumping in the distance. He couldn’t identify the sound, but afte... Read More...
By Sarah Freiberg
Imagine entering a museum filled with historical stringed instruments, and, instead of simply looking at them through protective glass cases,... Read More...