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    Interview with György Pauk
    Ariane Todes

    Interview with György Pauk

    In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, violinist and pedagogue György Pauk explains some of the most...
    Interview with Giovanni Guzzo
    Ariane Todes

    Interview with Giovanni Guzzo

    In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, violinist and professor Giovanni Guzzo describes his teaching...
    Interview with Martin Outram
    Ariane Todes

    Interview with Martin Outram

    In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, viola professor and Maggini Quartet member Martin Outram offers...
    Interview with Josephine Knight
    Ariane Todes

    Interview with Josephine Knight

    In this interview, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, Josephine Knight, Alfredo Piatti Chair and Professor of Cello...
    Interview with Dominic Seldis
    Ariane Todes

    Interview with Dominic Seldis

    In this article, originally commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music, the double bass professor and Principal Bass of the Royal...
    Peter Cropper’s A–Z of chamber music
    Ariane Todes

    Peter Cropper’s A–Z of chamber music

    In this article, first published at ChamberStudio in 2015, the late and much-missed first violinist of the Lindsays pulled no punches...
    Shmuel Ashkenasi on the art of chamber music
    Ariane Todes

    Shmuel Ashkenasi on the art of chamber music

    Shmuel Ashkenasi led the legendary Vermeer Quartet for nearly 30 years. In this interview, first published by ChamberStudio, he offers...
    Life in Teaching: Diana Cummings
    Ariane Todes

    Life in Teaching: Diana Cummings

    Diana Cummings comes from a musical dynasty, and her career spans solo, chamber and orchestral playing. Since 1982 has been a professor...
    Life in Teaching: Stefan Popov
    Ariane Todes

    Life in Teaching: Stefan Popov

    Stefan Popov has been professor of cello at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama for 40 years, and before that taught at Boston...
    Life in Teaching: Thomas Martin
    Ariane Todes

    Life in Teaching: Thomas Martin

    Double bassist Thomas Martin studied with Roger Scott in Philadelphia and can trace a teaching pedigree that goes back to Bottesini. In a...
    Happy Birthday, Ivry Gitlis!
    Ariane Todes

    Happy Birthday, Ivry Gitlis!

    The charismatic, idealistic, often contrarian and utterly unique violinist is 95 years young today. In celebration, here is an interview...
    Itzhak Perlman on his violin heroes
    Ariane Todes

    Itzhak Perlman on his violin heroes

    In this interview I did with Itzhak Perlman for The Strad’s Violin Heroes supplement in 2009, he remembered and analysed the violinists...
    Gilles Apap: ‘Don’t listen to nobody’
    Ariane Todes

    Gilles Apap: ‘Don’t listen to nobody’

    Violinist Gilles Apap has one of the most original voices today, crossing easily between classical and folk styles, often in the same...
    11 important musical insights
    Ariane Todes

    11 important musical insights

    I’ve interviewed many wonderful musicians over the year, have learnt much and had my thinking challenged many times. Here are just a few...
    Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonition
    Ariane Todes

    Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonition

    On what would have been the 71th birthday of Jacqueline du Pré, the words of János Starker sound a provocative warning Jacqueline du Pré...
    ‘You have to treat Bartók as you do Mozart or Haydn’
    Ariane Todes

    ‘You have to treat Bartók as you do Mozart or Haydn’

    Bartók’s quartets are often played ‘brutal, fast and loud’, but they should be approached as Classical masterpieces, says Jerusalem...
    Pinchas Zukerman on how to change the world
    Ariane Todes

    Pinchas Zukerman on how to change the world

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 70th birthday in 2016 and for its commemorative anniversary booklet, I had the...
    Joshua Bell on Josef Gingold
    Ariane Todes

    Joshua Bell on Josef Gingold

    Josef Gingold was born on 28 October, 1909. In celebration of the birth of a universally beloved and respected pedagogue, here is an...
    The Freewheelin’ Yo-Yo Ma
    Ariane Todes

    The Freewheelin’ Yo-Yo Ma

    Yo-Yo Ma turns 60 on 7 October, 2015, and to celebrate one of the world's best-loved classical music heroes, here is an interview I did...
    View from the viola front desk
    Ariane Todes

    View from the viola front desk

    Paul Silverthorne has led the viola section of the London Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, working with the finest conductors and...
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