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Danish-Swiss Violinist Niklas Walentin Is on the Road to a High-Octane Career—via Ferrari

By Inge Kjemtrup Niklas Walentin Start with a look at the car: a rosso corsa Ferrari in the background of the cover photo. Next, observe the clothes of t... Read More...

BSO Violinist Victor Romanul Relives his Boston Roots

By Victor Romanul Victor Romanul The story of my musical life in Boston begins with my first teacher, Alfred Krips, the former associate concertmaster of... Read More...

New Products: Acoustic Electric Strings’ Old No. 54 Violin

By Greg Olwell Acoustic Electric Strings Old No. 54 acoustic-electric violin The new Acoustic Electric Strings Old No. 54 acoustic-electric violin came f... Read More...

City Guide Boston: Cellist Gwen Krosnick on Chamber Music and Trudging Through a Blizzard

By Gwen Krosnick Gwen Krosnick There I was: sitting in the driver’s seat of my minivan, 20 minutes after my trio’s sound check should have begun. Head re... Read More...

From Rifleman to Concertmaster, Stuart Canin Looks Back 90 Years

By Cristina Schreil Stuart Canin whips open the door to his Berkeley home and shakes my hand with the kind of solid clasp you’d expect from any lif... Read More...

Innovative Chamber-Music Workshop Celebrates Female Composers

By Inge Kjemtrup Composers Kaija Saariaho (left), Joan Tower, Caroline Shaw, Sally Beamish, and Augusta Read Thomas Last March, Jessy McCabe, a 17-year-o... Read More...

Electric Violins and Materials: What’s the Deal?

Q: I want to buy an electric violin and I’m wondering if it really matters what the violin is made from. Since it’s electric, do different woods make it sound d... Read More...

4 Soloists to Conductors: Julian Rachlin, Gemma New, Eric Jacobsen and Han-Na Chang

4 Soloists Talk About Stepping Up to the Conductor’s Podium

By Laurence Vittes Conductor and cellist Han-Na Chang While doing a little research during the conducting finals of the 2015 Gstaad Menuhin Festival &... Read More...

Violin-Making School: A Lutherie Student’s Journal

How I learned patience, perseverance, and gratitude (whittle by whittle) at Utah’s Violin Making School of America By Jenelle Steele When it came ... Read More...

In 1976, Piatigorsky received an honorary doctorate at Grinnell College, where he and cellist Terry King played a duo recital

Cellist Terry King on His Mentor and Legendary Pedagogue Gregor Piatigorsky

By Laurence Vittes For much of the 20th century, Gregor Piatigorsky and a small group of supreme colleagues defined what high-level string playing could be. ... Read More...