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Musical Parenting: 5 Pros Reveal How They Passed Their Love of Playing onto Their Kids

By Whitney Phaneuf | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazineLearning a stringed instrument as a child is daunting, but likely even more so when yo... Read More...

Shutdown Skills Series: Perfect Fifths—A Few Thoughts on Tuning Your Viola (Violinists & Cellists Invited)

By Atar Arad Not unlike the multitude of different calendars existing side by side with none claiming perfection (hence leap days and leap months), intonation s... Read More...

Lara St. John emerges from a trying year with a new album of the Franck and ‘Kreutzer’ sonatas

By David Templeton | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazineViolinist Lara St. John has a certain dream of the future. The far, far future. It inv... Read More...

Shutdown Skills Series: How 3 Top Players Warm Up for Concerts

By Patrick Sullivan This article first appeared in Strings' November 2017 issue. Since debuting at age seven, Anne Akiko Meyers has learned to expect the unexpe... Read More...

Shutdown Skills Series: Work on Overcoming Stage Fright

By Patrick Sullivan This article first appeared in Strings' January 2017 issue. It should have been the proudest moment of Matthew Tifford’s budding musical car... Read More...

Exclusive Video Premiere: Cellist Juliana Soltis Plays Bach Sarabande

"The study of Bach can be intensely humbling, and a perpetual reminder to cultivate an open mind!" wrote cellist Juliana Soltis in a recent Strings article. "I... Read More...

Otakar Ševčík’s Pursuit of Perfection Changed How Violin Parts are Played

By Sasha Margolis | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazineThrough much of the 19th century, virtuosos of the violin were expected to be masters o... Read More...

Keep Connected with Fiddler Brittany Haas

As told to Greg CahillKeep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players and organizations are supporting and keeping in touch with their audiences... Read More...

Exclusive Video Premiere: Cellist Juliana Soltis Plays Bach

"The study of Bach can be intensely humbling, and a perpetual reminder to cultivate an open mind!" wrote cellist Juliana Soltis in a recent Strings article. "I... Read More...

Essential Historical Recordings: The Amadeus Quartet

By Sasha MargolisMartin Lovett passed away on the 29th of April. The British cellist, ninety-three years old at his death, was the last surviving member of... Read More...