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Composer and ex-violinist Òscar Colomina i Bosch to be Menuhin School director of music
Spanish composer and former violinist Òscar Colomina I Bosch has been named as the next director of music at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, UK. The 39-year-old will take up the post in September 2017, succeeding Malcolm Singer.Currently professor of orchestration at London's Royal Academy of Music ...
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Violist Tabea Zimmermann wins Artist of the Year at ICPA Awards
The International Classical Music Awards, given annually to the year’s finest classical artists and recordings, were announced on 1 April at a ceremony in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Germany. Among the special prize winners was viola player Tabea Zimmermann (pictured), who received the Artist of the Year award. ...
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Former Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Thomas Brandis has died aged 81
The violinist was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic between 1962 and 1983, and founded the Brandis Quartet
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Birmingham Conservatoire viola student breaks world record dressed as a musical instrument
Alistair Rutherford broke the Guinness World Record for running the fastest half marathon in an instrument costume in Liverpool on Sunday
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300-year-old Goffriller violin stolen from London Gatwick Express train
London violinist Carol Slater has issued a plea for the return of her instrument, which went missing from the overhead luggage rack a week ago
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London concert venue The Forge to close
The Camden performing arts venue, which has hosted a wide range of musical genres over eight years, will shut at the end of this week
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André Larson, founder director of the National Music Museum, has died aged 74
Larson was instrumental in founding the National Music Museum (then Shrine to Music Museum) in 1973 and retired as the collection's director in 2011
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Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Solo Competition names 21 candidates
Taking place in September 2017, the contest offers a top prize worth more than $30,000
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The Juilliard School appoints violinist Wei He as artistic director of its Tianjin Juilliard campus
The new Tianjin Juilliard School, to be based in Tianjin, China, will open in 2019 and offer a US accredited master’s degree – the first for any performing arts institution in China
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Croall, McEwen' Stradivarius violin sells for almost £2 million
1684 instrument sold for just under its upper guide price at Ingles & Hayday on 28 March 2017
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Former Berlin Philharmonic violinist Rainer Kussmaul has died aged 70
Kussmaul was also a sought-after violin professor, teaching at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where he specialised in Baroque violin
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Italian luthier Luigi Lanaro has died aged 96
Based in Padua for most of his working life, Lanaro was notable for founding the first school of violin making in Mexico
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Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2017 announces cello jury
This year's contest is the first to be dedicated to the cello - 70 candidates of 22 different nationalities will compete for a grand prize of €25,000 in three rounds in Brussels from 8 May to 3 June
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Birmingham Conservatoire student attempts to set world record dressed in viola costume
Alistair Rutherford is to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for running the fastest half marathon dressed as a musical instrument
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London-based violin dealer J&A Beare acquires W.E. Hill & Sons
In addition to the Hill trademark Beare's has acquired the company's records, including sales ledgers and certificates, and the Hill accessories line
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Applications now open for Tarisio Trust Young Artist Grants 2017
Online instrument and bow auction house Tarisio is offering five awards of $5,000 each for innovative string-based projects
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The Strad April 2017 issue is out now
Matthew McDonald, the Berlin Philharmonic's first principal bass, discusses the culture of creativity in the great German orchestra
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Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2017 names 70 cello candidates
The 21 women and 49 men of 22 different nationalities will compete for a grand prize of €25,000 in three rounds in Brussels from 8 May to 3 June 2017
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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter donates performance fee to refugee charities
Mutter's fee, along with those of conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, amounted to €60,000 and were gifted to two education bodies
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Malta International Violin Making Competition 2017 names winners
Run by the Central Academy of Arts, the contest received 61 separate instrument and bow entries this year, while makers hailed from nine different countries