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UK violinist Andrew Haveron to join Sydney Symphony as concertmaster
Andrew Haveron has been appointed co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony. Currently joint concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Haveron will take up his new position this May, joining Dene Olding as co-leader. The London-born Haveron was concertmaster at the BBC Symphony Orchestra before taking the leader's chair at ...
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Cellist Truls Mørk wins Sibelius Prize in Oslo
Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk was presented with the 2010 Sibelius Prize at his first concert in his home country for two years. The NOK100,000 (£11,000) award from the Sibelius Foundation recognises musicians who have made a major contribution to promoting links between Finnish and Norwegian musical life. Previous winners include ...
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Article1741 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin is sold to anonymous buyer
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has been granted exclusive lifetime use of the 1741 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri 'del Gesù' following its recent purchase by an anonymous buyer. The violin was sold by London dealers J.&.A. Beare for an undisclosed sum, although Beares confirmed that the price exceeded the ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Rick Stotijn receives Dutch Music Prize
Double bassist Rick Stotijn has been announced as the recipient of the 2013 Dutch Music Prize. The award is the highest honour for a classical musician in the Netherlands. Previous recipients include violinists Janine Jansen and Liza Ferschtman, and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. Born in 1982, Stotijn ...
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New York-based Colorado Quartet to disband after three-decade career
The Colorado Quartet has announced it will disband in May after more than 30 years of performance. The New York-based ensemble will give its final concert in the city at Symphony Space on 28 February, with performances in Virginia and South Carolina to follow in the coming months. The ...
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St Paul Chamber Orchestra cancels more 2013 concerts
The management of the St Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) has cancelled its scheduled concerts until 23 March, following the breakdown of contract negotiations. Talks between management and the locked-out SPCO musicians were conducted at the beginning of January under a media blackout, but the musicians' committee ended the negotiations ...
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London concert debut for ‘Underground Orchestra'
Seventy musicians will come together at a London venue on 26 January to mark the climax of ‘The Underground Orchestra Challenge’. The charity project was conceived a year ago by musician Shaun Buswell, who attempted to assemble ‘a full symphony orchestra’ from strangers he met on the London Underground during ...
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Ten rare Italian violins go on show in New York
Ten rare Italian instruments from the collection of Sau-Wing Lam went on show yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The installation features one viola and nine violins, among them the 'Scotland University' and 'Bavarian' violins by Stradivari, and the 'Baltic' violin by Guarneri 'del Gesù'. The ...
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Tonewood collected by René Morel and Rembert Wurlitzer Inc to be auctioned
Tonewood from the collections of Rembert Wurlitzer Inc and the late René Morel will be up for sale this March. Online specialist Tarisio is to auction maple, spruce, ebony, willow and bridges collected by Morel during his long career as a restorer and maker, as well as pernambuco that was ...
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Julia Fischer, Leonidas Kavakos, Sigiswald Kuijken to perform in Southbank Centre's 2013–14 season
Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly today launched the London venue’s 2013–14 season, sounding alarm about developments in England’s cultural landscape. Referring to the government’s proposed English Baccalaureate qualifications, which leave music off the core areas of school study, she said: ‘We should be concerned that classical music may not ...
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Cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky dies
Cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky has died at the age of 73. The founder of Canadian chamber ensemble I Musici de Montréal, he also performed as part of the Borodin Trio from 1977 to 1993. Born in 1939, Turovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatoire. He won first prize in ...
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Violinist raises nearly $25,000 to manufacture new chin rest
A Colorado-based violinist is set to start manufacturing his own chin rest design after raising nearly $25,000 on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. While studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, Jordan Hayes won the school's New Venture Challenge in 2010 for making a multi-adjustable chin rest ...
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UK violinist Peter Mountain, former RLPO concertmaster, dies
British violinist and teacher Peter Mountain has died at the age of 89. During a long career he was concertmaster of several UK orchestras, performed as a soloist and chamber musician, and coached both students and young professionals. Born in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Mountain won a scholarship to the ...
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French violist Vincent Aucante replaces Olaf Hallmann in Gewandhaus Quartet
Vincent Aucante, the first solo viola of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, has replaced Olaf Hallmann as violist in the Gewandhaus Quartet. Aucante joined the Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2011 after serving as principal viola with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. His chamber music activities ...
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Pedrazzini violin worth $35,000 discovered in trash
A man in San Antonio, Texas, who found a violin among some trash by the side of a road, later discovered that it was a 1922 Giuseppe Pedrazzini worth $35,000. The instrument was appraised by Peter Shaw of Houston dealers Amati Violin Shop for an episode of the PBS TV ...
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Chaudière violin thief jailed for six months
A man from Hounslow, London, who admitted stealing a Frédéric Chaudière violin valued at £25,000 from a train, has been sentenced to six months in jail. The violin's owner, Catrin Win Morgan of the Brodowsky Quartet, had placed the instrument, which was in a black Gewa case, on an ...
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ArticleTim Ingles and Paul Hayday leave Sotheby's to set up own auction firm
Sotheby's auctioneers Tim Ingles and Paul Hayday have left the London company to form their own specialist auction house and dealership. Ingles & Hayday will be based at 94–96 Wigmore Street, and will hold its first sale on 21 May 2013. Sotheby's will cease to hold instrument ...
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Violinist Nicola Benedetti receives MBE in New Year Honours list
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti has received an MBE in the New Year Honours list. She was honoured for services to music and to charity. Benedetti has worked with organisations such as Sistema Scotland and the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity, and has been an outspoken supporter of music education.Elsewhere on ...
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Ligeti Quartet channels Noël Coward in theatrical performance
As part of its Park Lane Group concert in London's Purcell Room on 11 January, the Ligeti Quartet gives the world premiere of a work that asks its performers to act as well as play. Hay Fever, by London-based composer and mezzo-soprano Laura Bowler, is inspired by Noël Coward's ...
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Italian student uses Facebook in search for violin stolen in Florence
A 20-year-old Italian violin student has set up a Facebook page to appeal for the safe return of her stolen instrument. The violin, a 1989 Guadagnini-model Claude Lebet valued at €15,000, was snatched at Florence's Santa Maria Novella station on Monday 17 December. The Catania-born owner, Gemma Raneri, ...