Interviews

The contemporary music champion explains the thrill and practicalities of working with living composers, what she learnt from Miles Davis, and why new music should never feel comfortable Photo: Tom Zimberoff Leila Josefowicz is undoubtedly one of the most interesting violinists of our time. Eschewing her early prodigy status and the usual trajectory of performing the same few concertos around the world, she turned to commissioning and performing new music, finding energy and

INTERVIEW I had the chance to fangirl/interview my childhood violin hero Itzhak Perlman, and to ask him about his inimitable sound I’ve interviewed Itzhak Perlman for the cover of November’s Strad magazine . I’ll say that again for 15-year-old me, trying not to shout: I interviewed Itzhak Perlman for the cover of this month’s Strad magazine! Yes, the awkward, odd teenager who was obsessed with Perlman and Thomas Hardy rather than Duran Duran and makeup, and practically wore o

INTERVIEW As Lisa Batiashvili opens the BBC Proms season tonight with Sibelius, she explains how musicians need to cultivate a rich inner...