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London violin dealers J.&A. Beare lose three directors
Three of the five directors of London violin dealers J.&A. Beare have stepped down from their directorship roles. Charles Beare has retired as a director, but will continue to act as an expert consultant on matters relating to the authenticity of instruments, according to a statement on the company's website. ...
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Former violin dealer Dietmar Machold gets six years in prison
Dietmar Machold was sentenced today in Vienna to six years in prison, reports ORF. The former violin dealer, 63, was convicted of embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy after a trial that began in September and reconvened this past week. The sentence could still be appealed, however. Machold could have received ...
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Sydney player's stolen violin found after theft on Vienna Underground
Emma West, a violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, has been reunited with the violin that was stolen from her in Vienna, reports the Wiener Zeitung. The violinist was travelling on an underground train in the city on 15 September 2012 when her instrument, worth an estimated €44,000, was ...
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ArticleAmerican composer Elliott Carter dies
US composer Elliott Carter has died at the age of 103. Known for his difficult, uncompromising works, he penned five string quartets during a career that spanned nine decades. The second and third quartets won Carter the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1960 and 1973. Born ...
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Detroit violist and pedagogue Ara Zerounian dies aged 86
The violist and pedagogue Ara Zerounian, who taught for many years in Detroit public schools as well as privately, has died at the age of 86. After serving in the army during World War II, the Detroit-born Zerounian went to Northwestern University in Chicago for his undergraduate studies, and ...
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New documentary tells how Bronislaw Huberman founded Palestine Symphony Orchestra
A documentary film about violinist Bronislaw Huberman has been released in the US. Orchestra of Exiles explores how the Polish-born violinist brought persecuted Jewish musicians to Palestine and in 1936 formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The 85-minute film, directed by Josh Aronson, ...
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Brazil government launches national conservation programme to preserve pernambuco
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to protect the country's endangered national tree, the pau-brasil. The environment ministry has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group comprising government agencies, conservation bodies and research institutes. ...
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Double bassist Roy Benson receives Salomon Prize
Roy Benson, the recently retired co-principal double bass of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), has been awarded the Salomon Prize by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Association of British Orchestras. The Salomon Prize recognises the contribution of orchestral players to UK musical life and is named after violinist ...
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Dresden-born concertmaster and violin pedagogue Werner Scholz dies
The German violinist Werner Scholz has died at the age of 86. A concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Scholz was a leading pedagogue whose students won many prizes in international competitions and went on to become concertmasters and violin professors. Born in Dresden in ...
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Violinist Tami Lee Hughes is first fellow in new Baltimore Symphony fellowship
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has launched an orchestra fellows programme in partnership with Sphinx, the non-profit organisation that promotes diversity in the arts. The fellowship will offer a year of mentoring and performance opportunities to Black and Latino instrumentalists. The first fellow is violinist Tami Lee Hughes (left), originally ...
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Brazil to reinforce pernambuco conservation
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to preserve the country's endangered national tree, the Pau brasil, source of bow makers' pernambuco wood. The Ministry of Environment has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group that ...
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Violinist Jack Liebeck's surgeon opens musicians' clinic
The doctor who treated UK violinist Jack Liebeck (left) for a ganglion cyst in his wrist last year has launched a new clinic in London specialising in musicians' upper-limb problems. Dr John White, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, will work with a team of hand and upper-limb therapists at BMI ...
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Former Arditti Quartet violist Garth Knox to join RNCM faculty
Garth Knox has been appointed international tutor in viola at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK. He will start his new position in September 2013. Knox, who studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Frederick Riddle, is a former member of the ...
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Cellist Jay Campbell wins Concert Artists Guild prize
Cellist Jay Campbell has won first prize in the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition in New York. The 23-year-old, who studies with Fred Sherry, joins the Concert Artists Guild roster and receives a two-year management contract.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra extends cellist Yo-Yo Ma's contract
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has extended its consultancy contract with Yo-Yo Ma. The cellist, who has been a creative consultant for the orchestra since 2010, will continue in that role until June 2015.Ma has been working chiefly on the orchestra's education programmes, and is a key supporter of the Citizen ...
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Tafelmusik violinist Jeanne Lamon to step down as music director
Violinist Jeanne Lamon, music director of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir since 1981, is to step down from the role in 2014. Lamon will become music director emerita and will work on establishing the Tafelmusik International Baroque Academy to train young players in period performance. Lamon studied ...
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Young UK orchestral professionals to get instant feedback at new audition masterclasses
A series of pilot orchestral audition masterclasses will take place in London next January and February. The public masterclasses will give young UK professional players the chance to perform to a panel of experienced orchestral musicians and an audience, and then receive feedback from the panel on their playing and ...
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Violinist Melvin Ritter, ex-concertmaster of the St Louis Symphony, dies
US violinist Melvin Ritter, who was concertmaster of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1965, has died at the age of 89, reports the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Born in Cleveland in 1923, Ritter studied violin at the Peabody Conservatory with Oscar Shumsky and later with Ivan Galamian ...
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Density research dents notion of special Cremonese violin wood
New research into violin wood density suggests that it is unlikely that classical Cremonese makers had access to wood with significantly different material properties than that available to contemporaneous or modern makers. In a study published online in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Plos One, Terry Borman, Berend Stoel ...
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Nigel Kennedy's stolen Violectra violins turn up at auction house
Three electric violins that were stolen from Nigel Kennedy's tour bus in Liverpool in 2005 are due to be returned to the violinist after turning up at an auction house in North Wales.The Violectra violins, two custom-finished in the claret and blue of Kennedy's beloved Aston Villa football club, and ...