The Violin Channel
The Violin Channel is a New York City-based classical music news, media, and streaming platform — covering international classical music news across its website, social media, streaming services, app, and email newsletter. It has been referred to by American violinist Joshua Bell as a wonderful resource for musicians and music-lovers.[1]
History[edit]
The Violin Channel was founded in Brisbane, Australia in 2009 by current CEO and Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey John Davies. The company currently employs 17 staff members, writers, and consultants internationally.[2]
The Violin Channel has worked with Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Sony Classical, Warner Music, Decca Classics, J&A Beare, Rare Violins of New York and Wigmore Hall.
The Violin Channel serves as an International Media and streaming partner for the Indianapolis, Joachim, Sibelius, Wieniawski, ARD, Geneva, Menuhin, Michael Hill and Montreal International string competitions, the Kronberg Academy, Menuhin Academy, Meadowmount School of Music, The New World Symphony, Enescu International Music Festival, Banff International String Quartet Competition, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jacobs School of Music, the SPHINX organization, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
VC Artist & Young Artist Program[edit]
The program, which has been offered since 2011, spotlights different artist, young artists, or what The Violin Channel refers to as "rising stars" — string soloists and ensembles.
The “Risings Stars” program focuses primarily on pre-college musicians, the “VC Young Artists” program focuses on musicians in college, and the VC Artists Program focuses on those who graduated from the VC Young Artists Program, following them as they work professionally in the industry.
The roster includes Augustin Hadelich, Ray Chen, Noah-Bendix Balgley, Bomsori Kim, Kian Soltani, Yesong Sophie Lee, María Dueñas, Johan Dalene, InMo Yang, Fedor Rudin, Timothy Ridout, Zlatomir Fung, Stefan Jackiw, Stephen Waarts, Charles Yang, the Dover Quartet, and more.
Vanguard Concert Series[edit]
The Violin Channel Vanguard Concert Series (Season One) was filmed in November 2020 in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was streamed internationally online from February to April of 2021. The 10-part online concert series was co-produced by The Violin Channel,[1] the Alphadyne Foundation,[3] Chamber Music International and the Kaufman Music Center.[3]
The series was co-executive produced by The Violin Channel CEO Geoffrey John Davies and Charles Letourneau, in collaboration with Creative Director David Katzive.[1]
Each episode was shot at the Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall and produced with a background curved LED wall.[1] New York Magazine called it "a new series that tries to combine the visual polish of a high-tech medium with the excitement of live performance, complete with sweaty brows, passionate grimaces, and the scrape of bow on string."[4]
Season one[edit]
Ran from February 11th, 2021 to April 15th, 2021.
Performances included Joshua Bell with pianist Alessio Bax, the Dover Quartet, Junction Trio (Stefan Jackiw, Jay Campbell, Conrad Tao), violinist Philippe Quint with pianist Jun Cho, violinists Nathan Meltzer and Kevin Zhu with pianist Rohan de Silva, violist Jordan Bak, violinist Charles Yang with pianist Peter Dugan, violinist Tessa Lark with pianist Amy Yang and guitarist Frank Vignola, cellist Sophia Bacelar with pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera and dancer Jamaii Melvin.
The initial episode premiered February 11th, 2021.[5]
Season two[edit]
Scheduled to run in fall of 2021.
Performances include Augustin Hadelich with Joyce Yang, Francisco Fullana with Pablo Sainz Villegas and JP Jofre, Leila Josefowicz with John Novacek, Xavier Foley with Eunice Kim and Kelly Lin, Matt Lipman with Stella Chen and Andrew Armstrong, Alexi Kenney, Timmy and Nikki Chooi with Michelle Chan, Viano String Quartet with Rodolfo Leone, Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot with Hsin-I Huang, and Vadim Gluzman with Janice Carissa.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Criscitiello, Alexa. "The Violin Channel and Alphadyne Foundation to Launch Virtual Vanguard Concerts". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ↑ Folliard, Patrick (2021-09-09). "Violin Channel's digital concert series supports artists during COVID". Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Buckley, Cara (2021-05-26). "They've Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ↑ Davidson, Justin (2021-07-19). "Hear Joshua Bell and Alessio Bax". New York Magazine. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "MusicalAmerica - The Violin Channel Announces Vanguard Concert Series". www.musicalamerica.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
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