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Contributors
ENRICO ALVARES
(Heifetz as teacher, page 52) was a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for ten years. He is extremely active as a violinist and promoter in the UK and European musical world and is a deeply devoted teacher at London’s Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.
JUDITH VAN DRIEL
(Opinion, page 22) is the first violinist of the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, an internationally operating string quartet. The ensemble focuses on shaping interpretations of the core repertoire and embedding these in programmes with new or non-classical music.
MARK PEMBERTON
(Books, page 90) is director of the Association of British Orchestras (ABO), which exists to champion, connect and develop professional orchestras across the UK. He is chair of the National Music Council, which exists to promote the interests of the music sector as a whole.
DAVID RATTRAY
(In Focus, page 55) is a violin maker and restorer based in Fife, Scotland. A senior fellow at London’s Royal Academy of Music, he has published works including Violin Making in Scotland and Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making.
STEPHEN STREET
(Bottesini’s 200th anniversary, page 36) graduated from Trinity Laban with a dual degree in classical and jazz performance. As a freelancer he relishes working in a variety of different idioms. His academic endeavours have focused on researching Giovanni Bottesini’s life and lost works to create and curate the Bottesini Urtext project.
HWAN-CHING TAI
(Wood treatment, page 48) is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University. He took violin lessons as a child and grew up to be an avid audiophile and music collector. His laboratory currently studies the neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease and the properties of Cremonese violins.