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Editorís letter
The Emerson Quartet has been acknowledged as one

Contributors
BENOITDUPEUX (Making Matters, page 74) is a French

VIOLA POWER
LETTER of the MONTH Mathis Rochat I was

TALES OF THE TRADE
The article on the Newark School of Violin

Driven to despair
Newsand events from around the world this month

NEWS IN BRIEF
Ray Chen acquires Stradivari violin bit.ly/3Bod4af Violinist

OBITUARIES
JORJA FLEEZANIS US violinist Jorja Fleezanis died on

Electric echoes
PREMIERE of the MONTH

COMPETITIONS
2 Barbican Quartet 3 Benjamin Kruithof 4 Trio

Colours galore
BOW FROGS

Life lessons
Thomas Demenga

Perfect pairings
Laurence Vittes finds that the combination of chamber music and the vineyards of California’s Napa Valley makes a festival that’s hard to resist

EMERSON QUARTET
l–r Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer, Lawrence Dutton and

THE VALUE OF GOOD TOOLS
The quartet plays in the studio of Paul

BLACK COMMUNITY ORCHESTRAS IN THE US
Cleveland Press on 17 November 1958 described the

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW CREDIT
Composer, violinist, violist and singer Caroline Shaw was the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for composition. She tells Toby Deller about the eclectic influences on her music, including her fascination with Renaissance motets, Haydn quartets – and citrus fruit

SECRETS AND LIES
While Arthur Abell had a taste for high society, his brother Edward became a recluse – but both had a penchant for fine violins and a cavalier attitude to the truth, as Clifford Hall reveals

STRENGTH IN DIFFERENCE
The members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet speak to Toby Deller about how they combined detailed preparation while retaining a sense of spontaneity when recording Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets

STYLE and SUBSTANCE
In our July 2022 issue, bow maker Matt Wehling profiled the highly influential maker F. N. Voirin. In this second article he probes deeper into some of Voirin’s artistic and technical advances, which were quickly implemented by most all French makers and paved the way for such luminary makers as Lamy, Sartory and E.A. Ouchard.

DATING THE BOWS
Assigning a date to a Voirin bow is,

HOW VOIRIN CHANGED BOW AESTHETICS
Throughout Voirin’s career he upped the general precision

SANTO SERAFIN
Lutherie

Making a scroll cast using foam
An efficient method of casting a scroll that eliminates the need for silicone rubber

HUTHMAKER FAMILY
A peek into lutherie workshops around the world

Augmented reality
Points of interest to violin and bow makers

SCHUMANN SONATA NO.1 OP.105 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO
Alexandra Wood explores the passionate and highly effective work of a composer tormented by his own ideals

THE SOLOIST
COURTESYAURORA ORCHESTRA NAME ALEXANDRA WOOD NATIONALITY BRITISH STUDIED

Sound travel
Filling the hall: ideas and exercises for teaching projection

FURTHER MATERIALS
How I Play, How I Teach by Paul

THIS MONTH’S RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Our pick of the new releases

CONCERTS
Your monthly critical round-up of performances, recordings and publications

RECORDINGS
BARRY 1998; All day at home busy

BOOKS
Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home Edward

From the ARCHIVE
Violinist and Paganini expert Julius Siber gives some biographical notes on the ‘demon violinist’ to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth

IN THE NEXT ISSUE
1693 ‘Harrison’ Stradivari An instrument from the master

NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT
Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Piano Trio always seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire, until the Covid lockdowns gave the German cellist a chance to find the real meaning behind it