At the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, in Banff, Canada, the Quatuor Agate won the Canadian Commission prize, for the best performance of “The Disappearance

In advance of The Violin Channel streaming three of the Banff International String Quartet Festival concerts this coming month, enjoy this performance by the Isidore

  Gertrude Simmons Bonnin was born in 1876 on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She was also known by her Sioux name, Zitkála-Šá, meaning

A graduate of the Bratislava State Conservatory, in Slovakia, and current student of Zakhar Bron at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, in Madrid, the Ukrainian violinist is