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The Sounds of Music
Hattie Butterworth talks to Lowri Probert, who is studying for a BMus in voice at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Lowri has been volunteering at the Seashell Trust, a non-maintained special school based in Cheadle Hulme for the past year, as part of...
Matthias Bartolomey
A warm Sønderborg welcome to Matthias Bartolomey who has just joined the Larsen Strings family. In 2012 together with the Jazzviolinist and Mandola player Klemens Bittmann he formed the Duo BartolomeyBittmann - progressive strings Vienna which has become a main focus...
Leonard Elschenbroich
We have been working with Leonard Elschenbroich for the past twenty years and are delighted to now make things official. He has been of considerable help with the testing and development of our cello range and we are honoured to welcome Leonard as a Larsen Artist....
Nicolas Altstaedt. Larsen Artist.
Introducing a new member of the Larsen Strings family: the cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. As a soloist, conductor and artistic director, Nicolas performs a repertoire spanning from early music to the contemporary. For a more extensive biography of Nicolas, please tap:...
Music and Mental Health
Hattie Butterworth’s latest blog entry now online at Larsen Strings. ‘Music and Mental Health - What I’m Doing in October.’ We are very grateful to Hattie for sharing this experience and hope that it is of assistance to fellow musicians. ‘I’ve spoken before on my blog...
Timo-Veikko Valve
Timo-Veikko “Tipi” Valve performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader on both modern and period instruments. In 2006, Valve was appointed Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra with whom he frequently appears as a soloist. Valve also...
Kronberg Academy Presentation
Mastering the technical challenges and an authentic musical expression are the keys to the successful performance of a composition. To achieve these things, the instrument needs to respond easily and produce a rich variety of harmonic colour. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zwieg...
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Free to Choose
For a strictly limited period we will be including a complimentary A string with all Il Cannone Medium & Soloist sets. So why not experiment with your sound? One A is the classic ‘direct & focused’ Il Cannone whilst the other, as labelled, is a ‘warm &...
All the things besides
Hattie Butterworth explores the relationship between poetry and music in her latest blog entry. Responding to music with words is such a wonderful way of capturing the moment and transmuting one experience into another. During the summer the past few years in London,...
Scales in Proportion
‘Boring scales? Scales are my favourite part!’ I have one 8 year old student at the moment and we are working towards her grade 3 exam. It has been the most amazing surprise to me to discover that her favourite part of the preparation is the element we most commonly...
Website Update
We have updated our website address to a secure connection (https). This should not impact upon any links that you may have to us. It's business as usual (but improved).
Showing up and being seen…
New from Hattie Butterworth. 'If we have the belief that we as a unique individual has something to say on stage at a specific moment in time, the anxiety about a critical voice diminishes. The critic wasn’t on the stage with you, you are the one with the courage and...
Larsen on Tour: London.
On our recent visit to the UK, in addition to working with the Kanneh-Mason family, we also enjoyed an insightful strings trial session with Leonard Elschenbroich. Pictured with Larsen’s Dr Thomas Zwieg and Leonard’s Matteo Goffiller “Ex-Rose-Ex-Piatti” (1693). Our...
Happy New Year!
All systems are go at Larsen Strings and we are looking forward to a (very) busy 2019. Some interesting projects are well underway so please do check in here for our updates.
Downloads
Lots of lovely things to download. We have reorganised our downloads section online to speed up the process of finding what you need. String packet images, information sheets, tension charts, newsletters and more all available to view and/or download. Anything else?...
Less is More…
It often feels to me that there are some people in life who appear to do very little, yet are frequently very successful. There always appeared to be people at school who ‘hardly revised’ and still came out with top grades. The other end of the spectrum are those who...
Nejla Komar writes from the Music Academy of Sarajevo
I am a cellist studying at the Music Academy of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I have been playing on Larsen Magnacore cello strings since 2016. From the second I had these strings on my cello they adapted to the instrument. I was surprised by the new and...
Johannes Wildner & the Sønderjyllands Symphony Orchestra
We are pleased to announce that we will be exclusively sponsoring the appointment of Johannes Wildner as Chief Conductor at the Sønderjyllands Symphony Orchestra to commence from the 2019-2020 season and for the subsequent two seasons until June 2022. Johannes Wildner...
‘Wobbling Cellos and Falling in Love with Shostakovich’
Please enjoy Katri Patel's Blog update at Larsen Strings. Extract: 'On his next lesson his cello was wobbling oddly. I asked him to keep his cello snuggly between his knees to stop the cello moving. He then asked me that hadn’t I seen how Mr Gerhardt had been swaying...
