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August 30, 2025, 8:13 PM · On Sunday the violin world celebrates the 80th birthday of one of its brightest stars: Itzhak Perlman! Violinist Itzhak Perlman. Image courtesy Warner Classics. Not only has ...

But I didn't realize that I was about to see such an imaginative concert and discover such a wildly interesting series: Summermusik, a 50+-year-old festival featuring the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra ...

July 8, 2025, 12:03 PM · It was one of those master classes where every violinist played so exceptionally - you kind of wonder what a teacher could possibly say. This is often the case at the Starling ...

June 24, 2025, 2:08 AM · NEW YORK - The 13th biennial Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies started on Monday at the Juilliard School with a master class with Philip Setzer. Setzer emphasized the ...

June 3, 2025, 4:26 PM · A perfect, rapid whole bow stroke is a beautiful coordination of speed, varying hand force from frog to tip, and control of bow angle by using circular motions of the shoulder, ...

Best Performance of the Commissioned Work (€2,000) – awarded by the Society of Finnish Composers: Amia Janicki Violinist Sueye Park. Photo by Matias Ahonen, courtesy of the International Jean Sibelius ...