Features:
- LISA BATIASHVILI: The violinist, newly appointed artistic director of the Audi Summer Concerts festival, tells Toby Deller about her new role, upcoming CD and future plans
- MAKING MADDER ROOT PIGMENTS: Hugh Withycombe and Guy Harrison present the results from three years of experimentation to discover how to make deep red colouring from the natural dye
- TEACHING ADOLESCENTS: Finding how to bring out the best in teenage students – and motivate them to practise – is a holy grail for instrument tutors. Bob Gillespie shares his experiences
- GIUSEPPE SGARBI: Lorenzo Frignani investigates the life of a lesser-known maker from near Modena, whose work may have had an influence on the 19th-century Venetian school
- MUSICAL EDITIONS: Some top players swear by urtext editions, while others will recommend a well-edited version. Pedro de Alcantara considers the various merits of both
- LIFE LESSONS: With David Harrington, first violinist of the Kronos Quartet
- OPINION: When a string breaks mid-concert
- POSTCARD FROM CHINA: Report from the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS: A 1933 violin by Ansaldo Poggi
- TRADE SECRETS: Making an additional ‘peninsular’ workbench for 360-degree work
- MY SPACE: Toronto luthier Stephen Quinney
- MAKING MATTERS: Did the old Cremonese luthiers have a series of ‘recipes’ for violin design?
- MASTERCLASS: Leila Josefowicz concludes her detailed look at Berg’s Violin Concerto
- TECHNIQUE: Christine Hoock on line and phrase
- FROM THE ARCHIVE: The mysterious tale of a missing Stradivari, from the January 1900 issue
- SENTIMENTAL WORK: Sheku Kanneh-Mason on his passion for the Elgar Cello Concerto
