Regina Carter started with Dont and Galamian but she only truly found her voice when she discovered jazz. She tells Ariane Todes about...

How much can an adult amateur expect to develop as a musician in a short space of time? Quite a lot, it turns out, given the right...

Observing masterclasses can be a brilliant way to learn and find inspiration, and yet students rarely turn up to watch. They may be too...

The former Vermeer Quartet leader and Curtis Institute professor discusses the negative sides of Ilona Fehér's 'tough love' school of...

Today's classical music business may be competitive and tough, but there are also more opportunities than ever. Success lies in knowing...

For violinists, playing the mandolin offers instant rewards and benefits, but some challenges, too. I asked for advice from the best in...

Competitions are a vital part of the classical music world, whether you like it or not. They offer many benefits to players and to the...

Gary Hoffman is one of the music world’s best-kept secrets, a fine and uncompromising cellist whose rare appearances mesmerise. For him,...

The legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung makes her much-awaited London comeback this December, after more than a decade away. On a recent...

Musical timing and closure, hearing and thinking for ourselves – just some of the things that teaching often fails to help us with,...

The great screen comedian was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of the scores to his films At the height of his...

In the 1980s, string pedagogue Sheila Nelson took her seminal teaching techniques to underprivileged schools in the London borough of...

The great violinist served in the Austrian Army during the First World War. Here he gives a moving and deeply humane account of his time...