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The Week in Reviews, Op. 381: Lisa Batiashvili; Gil Shaham; Hilary Hahn
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.Violinist Lisa...
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The Orion String Quartet To Retire After 2023-24 Season
By Laurie Niles: The Orion String Quartet will retire at the end of the 2023-24 season, concluding a 36-year partnership. Violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, brothers who share the first...
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VIDEO: Watch PUBLIQuartet's Grammy-nominated 'What is American?' in Live...
By Laurie Niles: The New York City-based PUBLIQuartet has been bending the classical genre for more than 10 years, and this year their newest album, What is American? has attracted a lot of buzz - it...
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Tribute to Violinist Henryk Szeryng, with Vadim Gluzman and Julian Rhee
By Laurie Niles: You may know of the great Polish-Mexican violinist Henryk Szeryng from Youtube recordings or various sheet music editions - but there is so much more to the remarkable life and legacy...
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V.com weekend vote: What is the first piece you would recommend to a...
By Laurie Niles: Recently one of my friends - a classical music muggle - expressed an interest in listening to the music of J.S. Bach. "But there is so much, I don't know where to start!" I certainly...
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REVIEW: Evah Pirazzi Gold Steel-Core Viola Strings
By Jonah Sirota: Today I am reviewing a new set of viola strings from Pirastro, a part of the Evah Pirazzi Gold line. Unlike strings in the regular Evah Pirazzi Gold set, however, the C, G, and D...
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Master Class with Gil Shaham at the Colburn School
By Arian Cázares: "I come from a family of scientists, and Ive always been fascinated by the similarity of music and art to science: many solutions have to be tried...the majority of them wont work...
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Music Kitchen: Live Music Returns to the Shelters
By Kelly Hall-Tompkins: Were back. And its no small miracle, considering what the world has been through. Although much of life has returned to a sense of normalcy that tries desperately to resemble...
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I used to love playing violin. I still do
By Laurie Niles: Life can be difficult, when you love playing the violin. It can be downright discouraging, as former Juilliard student Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch illustrated, first in a 2016 article...
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The Well Aging Fiddler: Trusting Your Audience
By Michael Kennedy: Several years ago, I ran a theater program in a high school in Minneapolis. To subsize the program, I rented the auditorium to various groups such as bodybuilders and traveling...
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V.com weekend vote: What do you think about NFTs featuring the violin and...
By Laurie Niles: What the heck is an NFT? I bring up the topic because last week the Sejong Soloists, an established chamber ensemble with international acclaim, released a series of NFTs called the...
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Violinist Steps in at Last Minute to Conduct Nutcracker Ballet
By Laurie Niles: On December 21, the night before five sold-out performances of the Nutcracker Ballet were to begin, the Los Angeles Ballet had a pretty serious problem: the orchestra had no conductor....
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Master Class with Suzuki Violin Pedagogue Debbie Moench at The Gifted Music...
By Laurie Niles: Learning to play the violin, hold the bow, count a tricky pattern - it's all very easy. At least Debbie Moench made it seem that way! Debbie has been teaching since she was in the...
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Making the Transition from Violin to Viola, with Dr. LeeAnn Morgan
By Laurie Niles: Sometimes when a violinist switches to viola, he or she simply has to dive straight into the deep end, without any guidance. That was the case with Dr. LeeAnn Morgan, who now teaches...
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V.com weekend vote: What is the longest amount of time you are able to...
By Laurie Niles: I'll make a confession: even when I was in music school, I never could practice six hours in one day. And for some reason "six hours" was the number that stuck with me, as the pinnacle...
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Here's Where to Find Concert Date Calendars for Classical Violinists
By Laurie Niles: It is wonderful to see violin soloists with full performing schedules again! A few years ago, we had assembled this helpful alphabetical list of more than 50 violin soloists, with...
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Interview with Violinist Robert McDuffie: Brahms and Beyond
By Diana Skinner: My admiration of violinist Robert McDuffie spans decades. When he was first starting out, he performed the Bruch concerto with my fathers orchestra in Colorado. My dad remembers him...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 382: Midori; Augustin Hadelich; Vadim Gluzman
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.Violinist Midori....
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Violinist Giuseppe Gibboni: A Victory for the Italian Violin School
By Laurie Niles: When violinist Giuseppe Gibboni won first prize the Paganini International Violin Competition in 2021, he was the first Italian to do so in 24 years. And he won decisively, also...
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Remembering Violist Dr. David Dalton (1934-2022)
By LeeAnn Morgan, DMA: Dr. David Dalton violist, past president of the International Viola Society, past president of the American Viola Society, and curator of the Primrose International Viola...
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