For the Record, Op. 12: Rock Concerto for Robert McDuffie; Dudamel in Vienna;...
By Laurie Niles: Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep...
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Eight Semi-Finalists Announced in 2017 Elmar Oliveira Competition
By Laurie Niles: Congratulations to the eight semi-finalists announced Thursday in the inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, taking place this week and next at Lynn University in...
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V.com weekend vote: To Memorize, or Not to Memorize?
By Laurie Niles: Is it necessary to memorize the pieces you are studying or playing? Of course, many factors can contribute to whether or not you memorize a piece. But at the core of this matter,...
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Renewal and reinvention: The Storioni Festivals 10-year anniversary...
By Heather Kurzbauer: EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -- It takes more than a gram of humor and self awareness to start a retrospective gala concert with a performance of a pizzicato duet (Sibelius Raindrops)...
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Interview with Endre Granat: Playing Scales Like Jascha Heifetz
By Laurie Niles: It all started with scales. When Endre Granat auditioned for the great violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), scales were the first thing on the agenda -- and "he had some pretty nasty...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 166: Aisslinn Nosky, Itzhak Perlman, Anne Akiko Meyers
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. Aisslinn Nosky...
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Award-Winning Documentary Goes to the Heart of Violin Making
By Laurie Niles: At what point do you actually get to call yourself an artist? When does the world consider you one? This was one of the many questions I found myself pondering, watching Strad Style, a...
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Finalists Announced in 2017 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition
By Laurie Niles: Congratulations to the four finalists announced Tuesday in the inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition! L-R: Alina Ming Kobialka, Quanshuai Li, Hannah Tarley and...
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Daisy Jopling's Musical Awakening
By Laurie Niles: Violinist Daisy Jopling had a major cultural awakening at age 11, the day John Lennon was shot. Brought up on classical music in the countryside outside London, "I didn't know who he...
View ArticleFor the Record, Op. 13: Frank Peter Zimmermann Mozart and Bach; Daisy Jopling
By Laurie Niles: Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep...
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V.com weekend vote: Whom would you see in live performance, if you could go...
By Laurie Niles: Happy birthday, yesterday (Feb. 2), to both Jascha Heifetz
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Sirena Huang Wins the Inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition
By Laurie Niles: Sirena Huang was named the first-prize winner in the first-ever Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, following the Finals and Saturday and Sunday at Lynn University in Boca...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 167: Lisa Batiashvili; Midori; Paul Huang
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. Lisa Batiashvili...
View ArticleSpecial Violin Exercises 'How to Master Firm Staccato Up and Down'
By Alexander Shonert: Dear colleagues, I am glad to share with you information that the famous violin magazine The Strad asked me to make a video with my master-course of my staccato. And I've decided...
View ArticleThe Tale of the Golden Cockerel: Playing with Character
By LEIA ZHU: Hello my friends, hope you enjoyed my first blog. And here I did a follow up from my first my 5 day challenge video with the story behind the Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov's adaptation on the...
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Interview with Henning Kraggerud: Reviving the Long-Lost Halvorsen Violin...
By Laurie Niles: Having grown up in Oslo, Henning Kraggerud long has felt an admiration and affinity for his fellow Norwegian composer and violinist Johan Halvorsen (1864-1931). Little did he know that...
View ArticleFor the Record, Op. 14: Henning Kraggerud's World Premiere Halvorsen...
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Review: Rachel Barton Pine Leads Baroque Concert with LACO
By Laurie Niles: Baroque composers were creating insanely virtuosic violin music long before Paganini tried his hand at it. Proving this point: Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine, who wowed a...
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V.com weekend vote: Do you also play an instrument that has more than four...
By Laurie Niles: This week I had a special opportunity to see Rachel Barton Pine's viola d'amore up close after her concert with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and to see what it was like to draw a...
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Joshua Bell: The Man With the Violin
By Laurie Niles: Who could have predicted that Joshua Bell's 43-minute busking experiment in a D.C. Metro station would still be inspiring stories more than 10 years later? And yet it is -- beyond the...
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