Jessica Duchen

Jessica Duchen was a classical music correspondent for The Independent for 12 years and her work has also appeared in BBC Music Magazine, The Guardian and The Sunday Times. Her writing about, for and with music includes novels, dramatic works, libretti and biographies. Her latest novel, Ghost Variations, was chosen as Best Read of 2016 by John Suchet in the Daily Mail.

March 31, 2021 13:06

Searching for the next piano master

Last year the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition was cancelled, thisyear it will be held in cyberspace. Jessica Duchen found out how.

January 28, 2021 14:10

We’re in perfect harmony

Israeli husband and wife, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, both pianists, have a new album out.

January 01, 2021 16:40

Dame Fanny Waterman

Inspirational piano teacher who dreamed up the Leeds International Piano Competition

December 21, 2020 14:01

Dame Fanny Waterman: A life in music

Jessica Duchen remembers 'Field Marshal Fanny', the founder of the Leeds International Piano Festival

December 11, 2020 09:05

Nurturing musical talent in the Galilee

A unique charity is giving children in Northern Israel the chance to train as classical musicians

December 03, 2020 13:05

Our orchestra must play on

Live music has been a casualty of the pandemic this year. Ahead of a major fundraiser, musicians from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra tell Jessica Duchen how they've coped

October 29, 2020 11:47

‘My viola gives me space to be myself’

Musician Shiry Rashkovsky has organised a classical music festival in a London cafe - first steps to bringing back live music in the pandemic

October 08, 2020 10:33

Even in lockdown, Perlman’s music plays on

One of today’s greatest violinists is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Gramophone Magazine. But now he has a surprising new role: social media lockdown hero

June 18, 2020 12:09

‘I had never met anyone just like me’

The trauma inherited by the children of Shoah survivors is the focus of Maya Lasker-Wallfisch's new book

May 14, 2020 16:44

Maxim Vengerov: ‘Growing up Jewish in Siberia, I knew I had to excel’

Virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov puts his success down to his upbringing as a Jewish boy in the heart of Russia.. With celebrations of his 40 years as a performer on ice, he talked to Jessica Duchen about his career

January 08, 2020 14:26

I'm not Jewish, but I'm a Klezmer musician

Violinist Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton loves the emotional intensity of Jewish folk music

January 02, 2020 11:08

Vienna's home for exiled music

A generation of musicians was wiped from Vienna’s history by the Holocaust — some murdered, others exiled. Now their work is being collected and celebrated

December 30, 2019 11:06