I had a chance to catch up with the handsome, 20-year-old Montréal born cellist Stéphane Tétreault, Interlude’s artist of the month. He already has an impressive dossier. The release of his debut CD, featuring the works of Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky,

An intelligent violinist Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, “Spring” With Cédric Tiberghien Bach Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 With Alexei Ogrintchouk and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra Once shared the stage

Classical or jazz? That is the question – Quatuor Ébène ‘We are so jetlag!’ said Mathieu Herzog, viola player from Quatuor Ébène. Great, I thought. In front of me were four handsome Frenchmen, who studied extensively with the Ysaye Quartet

The Prince of Harp Tall, charming, intelligent were words that came to my mind when I first met French harpist Xavier de Maistre for a recording session at a radio station. Xavier shines through his beautiful playing, eloquence, and polite

‘It’s really an unsuccessful event, or a harsh word – failure – that makes people learn. To define ‘successful’ is difficult, but for me, it’s that no matter how hard you try, how high you’ve reached, there’ll always be somebody

Regarded by the Times as having ‘passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend’, the Jerusalem Quartet was founded in 1993. Since then, it has been active in the international music scene, performing worldwide and collaborating with renowned performers like Mitsuko Uchida,

Having established himself as one of the world’s top viola players, Maxim has won the applause from audiences around the world with his charismatic performance. Having chosen Hong Kong as one of the destinations in his world tour this fall,

Heralded by NPR as “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble,” the genre-defying string quartet’s gripping performance style has drawn critical acclaim from classical, world and rock music scenes. One of the quartet’s