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Learning Technique for Repertoire
By Richard Brooks: I've recently become increasingly aware of a problem in teaching violin which seems more and more pervasive. I've heard both students and parents complain about working on a single...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 179: Augustin Hadelich, Ayano Ninomiya, Anne-Sophie...
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. Augustin Hadelich...
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Ilya and Olga Kaler to Join CIM Violin Faculty
By Laurie Niles: Violinists Ilya Kaler and Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler will join the Cleveland Institute of Music string faculty at the start of the 2018-19 academic year, CIM announced on Tuesday. The...
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Juilliard names Argus Quartet new graduate resident string quartet
By Laurie Niles: The Juilliard School will have a new graduate resident string quartet this fall: the Argus Quartet.The Argus String Quartet. Photo by Ben Gibbs. The Argus - with violinists Jason...
View ArticleFor the Record, Op. 22: Regina Carter honors Ella Fitzgerald; Simon...
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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Russian Renaissance wins $100,000 M-Prize; Argus Quartet Wins Senior Strings...
By Laurie Niles: A Moscow-based quartet called Russian Renaissance has won the $100,000 M-Prize, which was announced Thursday at the the second annual M-Prize chamber music competition hosted by the...
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V.com weekend vote: Have you ever had, or currently have, an injury that...
By Laurie Niles: Let's face it, playing the violin is a very physical activity, and when you are injured, that can affect your playing. If a broken arm or wrist forces you to wear a cast on your arm,...
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Finding Joy in Practice and Training
By Amy Beth Horman: When students are younger, the quest for beauty and joy is more apparent in their practice and lessons. You can see it in a childs body language and in their eyes as they discover...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 180: Regina Carter, Itzhak Perlman, Midori
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. Regina Carter...
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Study Looks at Modern Violins vs. Strads and Media Goes Crazy
By Laurie Niles: You've probably seen or heard some mainstream media headlines in the last few days about a favorite topic: the sound of Stradivari violins vs. the sound of modern violins. Here are a...
View ArticleFor the Record, Op. 23: Simone Lamsma; Eybler Quartet; Vadim Gluzman; Fabio...
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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Music in Hospice
By Alexander Strachan: Every week I go into Hospice to play for patients, never knowing what to expect. At first it seemed awkward and selfish, in a way. Families and dear friends are visiting loved...
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V.com weekend vote: How often do you change your strings?
By Laurie Niles: Hmmm, why is my fiddle sounding so quiet, and why can't I quite find the pitch when I'm tuning these days? Must be time for new strings. Of course, strings tend to be expensive, and...
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Merry Pranks: Becoming a violist
By Karen Allendoerfer: Although I've been playing the viola for quite a while, and have previously blogged about it, there are stages to becoming a violist. I picked up the instrument as an adult after...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 181: Julia Fischer, Kyung Wha Chung, Tasmin Little
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. Julia Fischer...
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Mission Improvisation: Signing Up for Creative Strings Workshop
By Laurie Niles: I was trying to impress my daughter, 19, with my new electric violin, which admittedly, I have no idea what I'm going to do with, other than try to mitigate a kind of mid-life...
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The elephant and the ant: Learned helplessness
By Simon Fischer: The following was originally going to be the last page of my book The Violin Lesson, but in the end I decided to delete it partly because of the never-ending quest to try to lower...
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V.com weekend vote: Have you ever damaged your violin, or had it damaged by...
By Laurie Niles: A few days ago one of my students handed me her violin to tune at the beginning of her lesson, and to my great dismay I found a couple of very deep cracks running out of the right...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 182: Kyung Wha Chung, Leonidas Kavakos, 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. Kyung Wha Chung...
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Types of Stand Partners
By Emily Kam: The Pro. How did I even end up sitting next to this prodigy?The Show-Off. Please stop playing the Sibelius violin concerto in d minor. I get it. Everyone gets it.The Whisperer. This is...
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