{"id":12770,"date":"2024-03-18T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:57:31","slug":"violinist-giving-away-100-violins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/03\/18\/violinist-giving-away-100-violins\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This Violinist Is Giving Away 100 Violins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12772\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Ray-Chen.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Chen playing violin on street\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Ray-Chen.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Ray-Chen-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Ray-Chen-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Ray-Chen-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Chen (Photo: courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The celebrated violinist Ray Chen is hosting a giveaway via <a href=\"https:\/\/tonicmusic.app\/partner\">Tonic<\/a>, his practice app. Users of the app who accumulate the most hours of practicing within seven-day windows will be eligible to win 1 of 100 <a href=\"http:\/\/kennedyviolins.com\">Kennedy Violins<\/a> Chen is giving away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch-up:<\/strong> Ray Chen founded his practice app, <a href=\"https:\/\/tonicmusic.app\/partner\">Tonic<\/a>, in 2020. His objective was to motivate young musicians to practice in order to achieve greater success. It is now used in over 130 countries with over 1 million live studios created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging deeper:<\/strong> The 35-year-old violinist Ray Chen has a knack for connecting with younger audiences. In between soloist gigs with orchestras including the Berlin Phil and recordings with his label, Sony Classical, Chen sells video-game inspired merchandise through his brand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raychen.plus\/\">Ray Chen+<\/a>. The Australian-Taiwanese violinist also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicfm.com\/artists\/ray-chen\/audience-throws-bra-tchaikovsky-violin\/\">recently made headlines<\/a> when a fan threw her bra at him during a performance.<\/p>\n<p>And though a free Kennedy Violin would be nice, it\u2019s worth noting that Chen himself plays a 1714 Stradivarius that previously belonged to Jascha Heifetz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Chen will give away 100 Kennedy violins to whoever accumulates the most practice hours on his App, Tonic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,84],"tags":[408],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Ray-Chen.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12780,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/12780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}