Join us to celebrate the violin, with Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles.
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Join us to celebrate the violin, with Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles.
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August 2, 2020
Episode 8, with Vijay Gupta and Gil Shaham
<p>This week Gil Shaham and Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles talk with Los Angeles violinist Vijay Gupta, 2018 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant who also founded "Street Symphony" to bring music performances and education to homeless and incarcerated communities. He'll play a gorgeous new piece, "When the Violin," by LA-based composer Reena Esmail. Colburn student John Fawcett will play one of the most difficult pieces in all the repertoire, the "Last Rose of Summer" by Wilhelm Ernst. And our youngest guest so far, Claire Oviedo, will play "Andantino" from Suzuki Book 1, and talk to us about her very impressive practice streak of 342 consecutive days!</p>
July 26, 2020
Episode 7, with Stuart Duncan and Gil Shaham
<p>Our guests this week include Stuart Duncan, a Grammy-winning American bluegrass musician who plays not only the fiddle but also mandolin, guitar, and banjo - and he sings vocals. He has performed with Diana Krall, George Strait, Dolly Parton, Guy Clark, Reba McEntire, and Barbra Streisand, among many others. A longtime member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band, he most recently collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer for album called "Not Our First Goat Rodeo, a followup to their 2011 "Goat Rodeo Sessions" album. Stuart will play "The New Democracy," which can also be heard on the Nashville Bluegrass Band's 1991 album "Home of the Blues." Kaylah Walker, 14, from Virginia Beach, Virginia, a violinist whose teachers have included Christina Morton and Jeannie DeDominick. A winner of several concerto competitions, Kaylah is also involved in musical theatre, having been cast in lead roles in the Wizard of Oz and The Addams Family at her school, Cape Henry Collegiate. She will play the first movement of de Beriot's Concerto No. 7 for Violin. The Stars Aligned Siblings - a very young quartet from San Pablo, Calif. Members are all siblings from the Breshears family: violinists Dustin, 13, and Valery, 11; cellist Starla, 12; and violist Colin, 8. Their teacher is Ayke Agus, who has been schooling them in the traditions of her own teacher, Jascha Heifetz. The siblings have already taken their show on the road, touring United Kingdom, Argentina, Mexico, and in the United States and appearing in festivals, broadcasts and competitions, where they have won numerous awards. They will play the first movement of Beethoven's Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6.</p>
July 19, 2020
Episode 6, with Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Gil Shaham
<p>Welcome to the happiest hour of violin talk online, with your hosts Gil Shaham and Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles. Our guests this week include: Kelly Hall-Tompkins, an award-winning classical soloist who also was the "Fiddler" in the Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof" for more than 400 performances. She will perform a selection from her album, "The Fiddler Expanding Tradition." Jasmine Li, 13, from Los Angeles, a student of Margaret Lysy at the Sol La Music Academy. She will play the first movement from Kabalevsky's Concerto in C Major Violin - accompanied by herself. Samantha Washecka, 15, from Round Rock, Texas. She is a student of William Fedkenheuer of the Miró Quartet. She will perform "Banjo and Fiddle" by William Kroll.</p>
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