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Bassist Ranaan Meyer Looks to Share Musical Knowledge with New Honeywell Arts Academy

By Caeli Smith | From the March-April 2021 issue of Strings magazineRanaan Meyer, bassist of genre-blending ensemble Time for Three, has run the Wabass Ins... Read More...

Going Commercial: What Happens When String Stars Venture Outside the Realms of Music for Endorsement Deals?

By Brian Wise | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineViolinists have appeared in advertisements for soap (Ole Bull), beer (Jascha Heifet... Read More...

Next Gen Jam: The omo Podcast Began as an Inside Joke… But Didn’t Stay That Way

By Caeli Smith | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineViolin maker Christopher Jacoby is editor of the Violin Society of America’s membe... Read More...

These 3 String Players Founded Their Own Labels to Support Creative Freedom

By Jeff Kaliss | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineWhen Lara St. John sought a moniker for her own record label in 1999, she chose An... Read More...

A Fairytale Life: Jazz Violinist Tomoko Omura Once Again Taps Her Roots on ‘Branches Vol. 1’

By Greg Cahill | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineDownbeat magazine recently named jazz violinist Tomoko Omura one of its Rising Sta... Read More...

Keep Connected with Violinist Kristin Lee

As told to Greg CahillKeep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players are staying in touch with their audience or students during the global cor... Read More...

Essential Historical Recordings: Pierre Fournier’s Envious Cello Mastery

By Sasha MargolisPierre Fournier (1906–86), known as “the aristocrat of cellists,” was among the twentieth century’s most wonderful string artists. A music... Read More...

Strings Magazine’s Top 6 Articles of 2020

Now that we're finally flipping the calendar to 2021, we thought it would be fun to look back at what caught your attention in the stringed instrument world th... 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...