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REVIEW: Augustin Hadelich in Recital with Orion Weiss
By Laurie Niles: A live recital? In person? Heck yeah! I'll drive 50 miles across Los Angeles during rush hour to see that! Especially when the performers are violinist Augustin Hadelich, with pianist...
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Violinist Tai Murray Appointed to Yale School of Music Faculty
By Laurie Niles: Violinist Tai Murray will join the faculty at the Yale School of Music, where she will begin this fall as full-time assistant professor, adjunct, of violin, teaching applied violin and...
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Do emotional regulation skills have a place in teaching music?
By Caitlin Renner: IÂ’ve become fascinated by a little-used word in my vocabulary: "accord." When most people think of "accord" they think of being in agreement, or an official political agreement, or...
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Violinists Tina Chang Qu and Jorja Fleezanis to Join Interlochen Arts Academy...
By Laurie Niles: Michigan's Interlochen Arts Academy will welcome two well-known violinists and pedagogues to its string faculty this fall: Jorja Fleezanis and Tina Chang Qu.L-R: Violinists Tina Chang...
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For the Record, Op. 159: Bomsori's 'Violin on Stage'; Sebastian Bohren's Mozart
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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Interview with Violinist Bomsori - Violin on Stage
By Laurie Niles: Korean violinist Bomsori Kim first won me over back in 2016. Violinist Bomsori Kim. I was sitting in the audience for her Finals performance at the Montréal International Violin...
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V.com weekend vote: How does your violin/music practice and routine change...
By Laurie Niles: Summer officially arrives this week, and as a violin teacher I'm seeing major changes in everyone's schedules and routines. The question on my mind is: will violin practice,...
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Remembering Baroque Violinist Jeanne Lamon (1949-2021), Longtime Music...
By Laurie Niles: Musicians and Baroque music lovers around the world are remembering violinist Jeanne Lamon, whose energetic leadership helped build Toronto-based Tafelmusik into one of the world's...
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How a Levitating Train Can Help the Bow
By Paul Stein: ItÂ’s not uncommon to have many mixed messages telling the bow what to do. Gravity is certainly a part of bow technique, but so is gliding and lightly spinning the string. When one...
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The 2021 Virtual Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies begins Tuesday
By Laurie Niles: On Tuesday, Juilliard's Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies begins, and though it will not be "live from New York!" I will be writing about the virtual sessions and posting here...
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Violin Master Class with Giora Schmidt - Starling-DeLay 2021
By Laurie Niles: "If you can convey your ideas through this Coca-Cola can of a medium called Zoom, you'll be so good live!" That felt like the quote of the day, from violinist Giora Schmidt in his...
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Hilary Hahn to be First-Ever Chicago Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-Residence
By Laurie Niles: On Tuesday the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association announced the appointment violinist Hilary Hahn as its inaugural CSO Artist-in-Residence. Appointed by CSO Music Director Riccardo...
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Injury Prevention for Violinists, with Pamela Frank and Howard Nelson
By Laurie Niles: It's been nearly 10 years since concert violinist and Curtis-based pedagogue Pamela Frank found her violin-playing completely shut down by an injury that was causing severe pain in her...
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For the Record, Op. 160: Randall Goosby's 'Roots'
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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Master Class with James Ehnes - Starling-DeLay 2021
By Laurie Niles: Violinist James Ehnes has grabbed the spotlight in so many ways: as a prolific soloist as well as recording artist, appearing with orchestras all over the world and accumulating a...
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REVIEW: LACO Opens Walt Disney Concert Hall with First Live Concert Since...
By Laurie Niles: When Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Concertmaster Margaret Batjer took the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, she dramatically removed her black mask and cast it aside, beaming...
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Juilliard acts after Pinchas Zukerman uses 'offensive cultural stereotypes'
By Laurie Niles: I was very much looking forward to watching a master class with world-famous violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman as the last event in the virtual Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin...
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An American Story: How to make an interactive chamber work
By Charles Wetherbee: My quartet - the Carpe Diem String Quartet -- began the 2020 concert season facing a set of unique challenges. The Carpe Diem String Quartet. As with most musicians, the COVID...
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Zukerman Issues Apology After Using Offensive Stereotypes During Master Class
By Laurie Niles: Following the uproar after a master class Friday in which Pinchas Zukerman used offensive cultural stereotypes, the violinist on Monday issued an apology through his publicity agent....
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Interview with Randall Goosby: 'Roots' and African-American Music
By Laurie Niles: When violinist Randall Goosby plays "It Ain't Necessarily So" from the opera "Porgy and Bess," it doesn't sound like he's just playing one of those favorite virtuoso violin...
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