SISIVC
Julianne Zahl
Gramophone: Nancy Zhou Wins Shanghai Isaac ...

The winner of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition – which carries the highest monetary prize of any music competition of its type – has been won by American violinist Nancy Zhou.

Gramophone: Nancy Zhou Wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition
Long Yu, Beijing Music Festival
Julianne Zahl
BBC Music: An interview with conductor Long Yu

Freya Parr talks to the renowned Chinese conductor as he hands over the baton after 20 years as artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival.

BBC Music: An interview with conductor Long Yu
SISIVC, SSO, Long Yu
Julianne Zahl
Forbes: Isaac Stern's Pioneering Spirit Lives ...

Though [Isaac Stern] died at age 81 in 2001, his spirit lives on in the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, a bi-annual international violin competition to be held starting Aug. 10 with winners to be announced on Sept. 1. The $100,000 first prize is the largest in the world for a violin competition.

Forbes: Isaac Stern's Pioneering Spirit Lives On Via Shanghai Event, $100,000 Prize
Anne Akiko Meyers
Julianne Zahl
The Strad Cover – June 2018

The second part of Terry Borman’s detailed examination of Anne Akiko Meyers’ violin, ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri ‘Del Gesù’, with contributions from experts in the latest technologies, investigating acoustics, dendrochronology, varnish analysis and plate thicknesses.

The Strad Cover – June 2018
GTMF
Julianne Zahl
The New York Times: Grand Teton Music Festival ...

Donald Runnicles is the music director in this picturesque town opposite Jackson Hole, which is just south of Grand Teton National Park and an hour’s drive from Yellowstone. With an orchestra whose players are drawn from major symphonies across the country, Mr. Runnicles conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and much else. Visiting soloists include Daniil Trifonov, Leila Josefowicz and Kirill Gerstein.

The New York Times: Grand Teton Music Festival Named One of Top 15 Classical Music Festivals

Gramophone: Nancy Zhou Wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition

Gramophone: Nancy Zhou Wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition

The winner of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition – which carries the highest monetary prize of any music competition of its type – has been won by American violinist Nancy Zhou.

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Pizzicato: 35 Years of Shanghai Quartet: Beethoven forever

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Pizzicato: 35 Years of Shanghai Quartet: Beethoven forever

35 years ago, one of today's foremost chamber ensembles, the Shanghai Quartet, was formed at the Shanghai Conservatory. Since that year they have played around 3000 concerts and recorded 35 albums. Remy Franck met First violinist and founding member Weigang Li in his native Shanghai.

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to Yuga Cohler

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to Yuga Cohler

Yuga Cohler has garnered attention as a conductor for brilliant performances and an organizer of highly inquisitive, and at times bold, performance projects. His membership in the Asia/America New Music Institute (AANMI) an organization dedicated “to promoting new music relationship between Asia and the Americas,” is yet another instantiation of these qualities.

Violin Channel: Grand Teton Music Festival Insta Takeover

Violin Channel

The Violin Channel recently caught up with the Grand Teton Music Festival for a behind-the-scenes Instagram takeover – direct from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, United States, with conductor Donald Runnicles, composer Sean Shepherd and cellist Johannes Moser.

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