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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 15: Noah Gellers Veggie Pad Thai
By Desirée Ruhstrat: Last summer at Pierce Hill Festival in Viroqua, Wisconsin, I was able to spend an entire week playing great chamber music with Noah Geller and friends. We would rehearse all day...
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New Biography of the Tragic Life of Violinist Josef Hassid (1922-1950)
By Gerald Spear: Carl Flesch is said to have called him "my most gifted pupil." Fritz Kreisler is quoted as saying that "a fiddler like Menuhin is born every 100 years, one like Hassid every 200...
View ArticleThe Week in Hope-Inspiring Spontaneous Music Online, Op. 7
By Diana Skinner: This weeks roundup features surprise visits by a ballerina, opera singer, and gastroenterologist (not in the same clip, thank goodness). It includes music by Bach, Beethoven, and...
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Remembering Cellist Lynn Harrell (1944-2020)
By Laurie Niles: Musicians around the world are remembering cellist Lynn Harrell, who died on Monday at age 76. Cellist Lynn Harrell. "We have lost a wonderful father, husband , mensch," his wife Helen...
View ArticleHow to organize your practice this summer
By Nathan Cole: Ive always been fascinated by the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Unfortunately I wasnt fascinated enough at a young enough age to actually take part in it! But Ive followed from a...
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The Heifetz Institute Goes Virtual
By Laurie Niles: Summer music programs all over the world have been struggling with how to proceed for the summer of 2020. What will happen, when it comes to the lockdowns and quarantines imposed by...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 16: Violist Ayane Kozasas Strawberry Muffins
By Desirée Ruhstrat: Today we have Ayane Kozasas special Strawberry Muffins! I first met Ayane when I was a judge at the Kingsville Young Performers Competition. Ayane has since crossed over to the...
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For the Record, Op. 117: Tetzlaff Quartet; Nash Ensemble; Solomiya Ivakhiv
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: What aspect of technology would you most like to improve...
By Laurie Niles: Many of us who have no particular skill with technology nor aptitude for it are finding ourselves up to our eyeballs in online teaching, zoom meetings, and live streams. While much of...
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Playing Scales to Stop Rushing
By Paul Stein: One thing I can say about orchestra playing it glosses over my weaknesses. That feels good, by the way. The rush of thinking how great you sound when youre actually listening to the...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 17: Tasmin Little's Sea Bass En Papillote
By Desirée Ruhstrat: It is my great pleasure to cross over the pond to the UK for todays episode and feature the lovely Tasmin Little. Tasmin has performed on every continent in some of the most...
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How to Host an Online Music Recital on Zoom
By Laurie Niles: I usually hold my spring and fall violin studio recitals in a beautiful, familiar little chapel with nice acoustics and a grand piano. In the Spring 2020, with in-person gatherings on...
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The Violympics Trials: A New Adventure
By Claire Allen: Monday was Day 1 of the Violympics Trials, created and masterminded by Nathan Cole of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It's also become a support group for violinists and violists...
View ArticleThe Week in Hope-Inspiring Spontaneous Music Online, Op. 8
By Diana Skinner: This weeks roundup includes a version of Bachs "Chaconne" that features not one, but 14 remarkable violinists. It offers a real-life love story between a singer on the operatic...
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The Well Aging Fiddler: The Masked Fiddler Strikes (for fifteen minutes a time).
By Michael Kennedy: This really happened. Two days ago, I walked into a bank to make a withdrawal and they thanked me for wearing a mask. This world aint the same. Ive been enjoying the free concerts...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 18: Michael and Rachael Ludwig's 'New...
By Desirée Ruhstrat: For todays Episode of Fiddlers Favorites, we have the dynamic husband and wife duo of Michael and Rachael Ludwig bringing us their special twist to the "Old Fashioned" cocktail -...
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Discoveries, Motivation, and Exhaustion: The Violympics Trials, Days 2 & 3
By Claire Allen: DAY 2 Its Day 2 of Nathan Cole's Violympics Trials, and I have learned three things thus far: First, my hand frame needs a lot of work and that Nathan Coles pinky video is genius. I...
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Adventures in Online Teaching Part II Group Class Ideas
By Carrie Salisbury: While originally daunted at the thought of teaching violin groups online, I have found that gathering my students together for weekly classes during our COVID-19 stay-home order...
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For the Record, Op. 118: Anne-Sophie Mutter; David Nebel; Cho-Liang Lin;...
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: When do you envision a return to in-person private music...
By Laurie Niles: Like a number of Violinist.com readers, Im a violin teacher, and in "normal times" I teach about a dozen young students in my home. Since the quarantine began, Ive figured out how to...
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