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Of Miracles and Beethoven.
By Stephen Brivati: Greetings, Well, Friday is the 5th anniversary of the earthquake /tsunami/nuclear disaster that killed and rendered so many homeless here in Japan. Many thousands still living in...
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Akemi Takayama in Blacksburg
By Paul Deck: On Friday, March 4, 2016, Akemi Takayama performed the Barber Violin Concerto with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra (RSO) in the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. Akemi Takayama is a...
View ArticleWomen's History Month: Ariana Kim Champions Women's Compositions for Violin
By Laurie Niles: Wouldn't it be great to just send a quick e-mail to Mozart about a bowing, or ask Bach what exactly he meant? When you work with a living composer, you actually get to do that. For...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 121: Daniel Hope, Hilary Hahn, Frank Almond
By Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Frank Almond...
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Twenty-four Competitors Announced for the 2016 Montreal International Musical...
By Laurie Niles: The Montreal International Musical Competition announced 24 violinists who have been invited to participate in this year's violin competition, from May 22 to June 2 in Montreal. As in...
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Brain of a Violinist -- the Real Chart!
By Laurie Niles: The brain of a violinist -- broken into a pie chart: This was in response to Classic FM's cute series of pie charts about the brains of various kinds of instrumentalists and musicians....
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Second Position: No Man's Land
By Paul Stein: A violinists left hand is a picture of focused fireworks, energy unleashed in a small area. Its requirements seem simple, on the surface. It has to maneuver four very distinct angles...
View ArticlePi Day 2016
By Steven Rochen: Pi Day 2016 and Albert Einstein's birthday! This is a link to A Piece of Pi at www.stevenrochen.com A Piece of Pi - a piece for solo violin or viola - a cello version is now...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 122: Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, James Ehnes
By Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Joshua Bell...
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Why You Need to Hear Gil Shaham's Violin Concertos of the 1930s
By Laurie Niles: Gil Shaham's ongoing 1930s Violin Concertos project is a lot more than a series of performances of likable pieces -- as the artist himself might lead one to believe. It's nothing less...
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Rhythmic Inertia Is Not Laziness: How Fast and Slow Can Feel the Same
By Paul Stein: When it comes to the musical concept of quick tempo, we all remember the hotshot players in high school who had an innate sense of virtuosic, daredevil speed. It seemed like every fiber...
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Happy Birthday, Dear Johann: Thousands Worldwide to Play for Bach in the...
By Laurie Niles: This weekend, thousands of musicians around the world have conspired to fill subway stations and public places with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, in celebration of the composer's...
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MusicWood
By Joshua Iyer: This morning I saw the film MusicWood (2012), as part of the Environmental Film Festival that occurs at Augustana. I mentioned I would see it in yesterday's post, and I discussed wood...
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A Note from the Maestro
By Michael Makhal: In a fine morning, I woke up with the news in the daily, that, Maestro Zubin Mehta is in Town (Hyderabad). The first thing hit the core of my belly was, can I meet him? Thats it, I...
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Around the World with Bach in the Subways
By Laurie Niles: Happy birthday Bach! Thousands of musicians across the world celebrated Johann Sebastian Bach's 331st birthday by offering free Bach performances in public places all weekend and...
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Three Violinists Chosen for 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grants
By Laurie Niles: An unusually high number of violinists will receive a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant tonight in New York -- with three of the five recipients being violinists. Many congratulations to...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 123: Leila Josefowicz, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham
By Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Leila Josefowicz...
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Schmaltz - A Love Affair With Glissandos
By Paul Stein: Glissandos -- those tender-sounding finger slides into certain special notes -- may disappoint you the first time you try them, but keep trying. Chances are, the bow lost a little of its...
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Brain of a Violist -- the real chart!
By Laurie Niles: Several weeks ago we created a Brain of a Violinist chart, in response to Classic FM's cute series of pie charts which, nonetheless, seemed a little off with the violinist pie chart....
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 124: Rachel Barton Pine, Leonidas Kavakos, Anthony...
By Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Rachel Barton Pine...
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