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The Week in Reviews, Op. 252: Robyn Bollinger; Andre Rieu; Nicola Benedetti
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.Robyn Bollinger...
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V.com weekend vote: Did you/are you traveling with your violin over the...
By Laurie Niles: The holidays often bring travel, and the question arises: to bring the violin (or viola or cello), or to leave it at home? For some, there is no choice because the traveling will also...
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New Year's Resolution for Practicing: Be Careful What You Measure
By Susanna Klein: The start of a new year is a common time to set new musical goals. For many of us, the desire to become a better violinist is the quest for the holy grail, ever elusive by design. The...
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Midori: the Art of Giving a Masterclass
By Laurie Niles: How do you give a good masterclass that serves the student you are teaching, as well as the audience who is watching? Earlier this fall, I went to a master class by Midori Goto at the...
View ArticleInspiration from Hilary Hahn - Practice Resolutions.
By Joshua Iyer: As I pick up my violin today to start to get back into it, I thought of listening to Hilary Hahn's discussion of how she practices and plays the violin. One of my favorite YouTubers,...
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Dual and Multi-Tasking - The Violin as a Thinking Game
By Paul Stein: Robert Jourdain published Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy in 1997 and pinpointed the difficulty of playing rhythmically: "Its often said that rhythm is musics most 'natural' aspect, that...
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For the Record, Op. 72: Ning Feng's Elgar and Finzi Violin Concertos; Cellist...
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: Oblong or Fitted Case?
By Laurie Niles: I can still remember my first "real" fiddle case, and how I spent months leafing through the Shar catalog, pining for the oblong American case, with a velvet interior, a strap and a...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 253: Tessa Lark; James Ehnes; Pinchas Zukerman
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.Tessa Lark. Photo...
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The Well Aging Fiddler: Time, Timing, Humility and Patience
By Michael Kennedy: Id say a key subtext in learning the violin is humbly accepting the virtue of patience. One January, when I lived in Minneapolis, I had to go to airport and give a friend a ride...
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For the Record, Op. 73: Philippe Quint's 'Chaplin's Smile'; Rupert...
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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Finding the Violin's Voice
By Diana Skinner: When I was studying violin in college, my teacher would consistently pose the same question if I was having trouble with a lyrical passage: How would you sing it? After singing the...
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V.com weekend vote: Do you have perfect pitch, relative pitch, or neither?
By Laurie Niles: I'll confess: I cannot tell you the pitch of a beeping truck or doorbell, nor can I see a page of music and sing the precise notes that I see, unless I'm given a reference point....
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Two Decades of Two-Viola Craziness
By Scott Slapin: This month marks twenty years that my wife, Tanya Solomon, and I have been doing something really, really weird: performing as a viola duo. I know it's something 'those people'...
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Interview with Philippe Quint: Chaplin's Smile - and Prolific Musical Output
By Laurie Niles: Charlie Chaplin -- that clownish icon of silent film -- was a prolific composer?"It was an absolutely crazy discovery for me," said violinist Philippe Quint, who on Friday released...
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 254: Benjamin Beilman; Leila Josefowicz; Augustin...
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.Benjamin...
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Remembering Kató Havas, Pioneer in the Ergonomics of Violin-Playing, 1920-2018
By Laurie Niles: The pioneering Hungarian violinist and teacher Kató Havas died on New Year's Eve at age 98, according to her website. Kató Havas. Havas was best known for her teachings that address...
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For the Record, Op. 74: Yevgeny Kutik; Layale Chaker; Jennifer Pike; cellist...
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: Eat a meal before or after the concert?
By Laurie Niles: Do you like to eat a meal before or after playing a concert? When I was in college, our conductor would always tell us, "Now go have a big meal before the concert!" Certainly it can...
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Tessa Lark, Korngold, and the Joy of Live Music
By Diana Skinner: I honestly did not want to like her. Shes so young, so talented, so pretty. And, if that werent enough, she gets to play on a G.P. Maggini violin. But, as the saying goes, when...
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