The Perfect Fit: Violist Ursula Sarnthein on the Stradivari Opportunity of a Lifetime

By Cristina Schreil | From the January/February 2020 issue of Strings Magazine In 2014, Trio Oreade, a Zurich- and Hamburg-based ensemble, performed in a chamber-music competition in Basel, Switzerland. The real treat, however, was what came after. A representative from the Stradivari Foundation (Habisreutinger), which owns and lends out six Stradivari instruments, asked the trio … Continue reading The Perfect Fit: Violist Ursula Sarnthein on the Stradivari Opportunity of a Lifetime