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US violist Marc Sabbah, 25, takes first prize in Amsterdam viola competition
Marc Sabbah took the €500 first prize at the third Amsterdam National Viola Competition, held in the Dutch city on 7 and 8 March. The 25-year-old (left), who was born in New York City, US, performed works by Bach and Shostakovich in the final. He is currently based in Brussels, ...
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31 players receive instruments from German instrument fund
The German Musical Instruments Fund has awarded 31 young German string players with loans of instruments from its 180-strong collection. The 18 violins, 4 violas and 9 cellos went to performers in the fund's competition, which this year was held in Hamburg. Among the highest-scoring participants in the competition ...
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Contract dispute continues at San Francisco Symphony as players threaten strike
The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony have voted unanimously to authorise a strike if their contract negotiations with management continue to stall. The action could affect the orchestra’s upcoming East Coast tour: running from 20-23 March, it would include concerts in New York, New Jersey and ...
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Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle takes first prize at Lutoslawski Competition in Warsaw
Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle won first prize at the Witold Lutoslawski International Cello Competition in Warsaw. The 20-year-old studies with Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich, and has also taken masterclasses with Steven Isserlis at Prussia Cove, Jens Peter Maintz at the Kronberg Academy and Ralph Kirshbaum in London. Dominik Ploci?ski, ...
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Australian Quartet's first violin and viola quit
The Australian Quartet (ASQ) will lose two of its members this year. First violinist Sophie Rowell and violist Sally Boud will step down following the quartet’s performances at the Huntington Estate Music Festival in late November. The quartet’s management has begun an international search to fill the posts ready ...
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Glenn Dicterow to teach at MAW
NY Phil concertmaster to join Music Academy of the West faculty in 2014
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Louisville Orchestra management and musicians agree three-year contract
The Louisville Orchestra has signed a three-year contract with its musicians. The new contract succeeds a one-year bridge agreement that ended the orchestra's 11-month labour dispute last April. The bridge agreement called for a 30-week season, down from 37 weeks in the 2010–11 season. The new contract keeps the ...
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New contract agreed in Louisville
Louisville Orchestra management and musicians reach three-year agreement
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Japanese–American violinist Mayumi Kanagawa wins Heifetz Competition in Vilnius
Japanese–American Mayumi Kanagawa (left) won the €6,000 first prize at the Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 18-year-old is a graduate of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. She was first-prize winner of the 2011 Irving M. Klein Competition in San ...
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Betts copy joins national collection
Violin made at Oberlin violin makers workshop is added to Library of Congress collection
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Bulgarian police may have tracked down 1696 Stradivari violin stolen in 2010
Police in Bulgaria believe they have recovered the 1696 Stradivari violin (left) that was stolen from a London sandwich bar in 2010. Undercover detectives in Sofia were offered a Stradivari for £250,000 in a sting operation on Hristo Varbanov, a Roma mafia crime boss. The instrument, ...
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13-year-old violinist Lara Boschkor wins Szeryng competition in Mexico
Lara Boschkor has won first prize in the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Toluca City, Mexico. The 13-year-old German, who is a student of Susanna Yoko Henkel at the University of Music and Dance, Cologne, received MXN350,000 (£18,000). Second prize went to Igor Pikaysen, 25, from Russia. British ...
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Stolen Stradivari ‘recovered'
Bulgarian police may have tracked down the 1696 violin taken in 2010
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Indiana University Jacobs School of Music recruits Grigory Kalinovsky
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Grigory Kalinovsky to its string department. The violinist is set to join the Bloomington school as a professor of music in autumn 2013. Kalinovsky began violin studies in his native St Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova, and later trained at the ...
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IU recruits Grigory Kalinovsky
St Petersburg-born violinist to join IU Jacobs School of Music this autumn
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US national youth orchestra to contain 80 string musicians
Eighty string players from across the US have been chosen to be part of the inaugural National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO–USA). The ensemble, which comprises 120 musicians in total, will include 40 violins, 16 violas, 14 cellos and 10 double basses. They will come together ...
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Double blow for cellist
Airport security check that resulted in broken bow also damaged Alban Gerhardt's cello
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New York Philharmonic expands online digital archives with sheet music
The New York Philharmonic has added a large tranche of material to its digital archives, completing a three-year project to digitise orchestral parts, programmes and other documents dating from 1943 to 1970. The new material comprises more than 520,000 pages of marked instrument parts, encompassing nearly 1,200 works by ...