Bill Evans

Future Focus: Violinist Ezinma Fuses Classical and Hip-hop, and Hopes to Bring a Little Joy to a World That Needs It

By David Templeton | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineInspiration.That word and all it implies is at the core of how Ezinma—the ... Read More...

A Bow of Humility: Setting Aside My Pride Helped Embrace My Childlike Enthusiasm for Music

By Mary Chan | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineHow hard can it be? I thought, after watching a ten-year-old perform a Bach violin c... Read More...

A New PDF Edition of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites Takes Every Manuscript into Account

By Sarah Freiberg | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineJohann Sebastian Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007–1012, Manuscri... Read More...

A Cello Bench, with Even a Place for Your Instrument to Sit

By Megan Westberg | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineYou’re working on a piece and suddenly feel that the edition you’re looking at ... Read More...

A Lifelong Partner: How the Cello has Added Immeasurable Richness and Joy to My Life

By George Struble | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineNovember 2016. I had agreed to gather a string quartet to provide a concert in ... Read More...

Violin Maker Karl Dennis on Instruments with Emotional Impact

By Karl Dennis | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineOf all the violins you’ve seen, which left the greatest impression on you as a vio... Read More...

Pandemic Pedagogy: How Creative Limitation May Sow Benefits in the Long Term

By Scott Flavin | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazine“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” —Orson WellesWhenever I thi... Read More...

Chamber Music in the Time of COVID: Rethinking a Concert Series Invited Creative Solutions

By Anthea Kreston | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineMusic has taken on a different meaning for all of us during the pandemic. I was... Read More...

Go With the Flow: In the Absence of Live Concerts, Arts Orgs are Turning to the Livestream Experience

By Laurence Vittes | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineAs it became obvious to the classical-music world that live concerts would not... Read More...

Making His Mark: These 7 Players Have Found Bliss in Hiroshi Iizuka’s Violas

By Greg Cahill | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazineCaeli Smith met her dream viola in 2013, a few days after Thanksgiving, at the ho... Read More...