LEON BOSCH AWARDED 2024 COBBETT MEDAL FOR SERVICES TO CHAMBER MUSIC British musician the first double bass player to be honoured in award’s 100 year history   The Worshipful Company of Musicians will award its 2024 William Willson Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music to Leon Bosch on 16 July. He will be the first double bass player to be so honoured since the medal was first awarded in 1924. The British virtuoso, who was born in Cape Town […]

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Bottesini’s birth, Leon Bosch speaks about the complete musician who was described as ‘the Paganini of the double bass’ Double bassist Leon Bosch speaks with online editor Davina Shum about the life and works of Giovanni Bottesini, in the year celebrating the bicentenary of his birth. Revered in bass circles as a revolutionary, Bottesini was also a renowned performer, composer and conductor in his day. Listen to The Strad Podcast here