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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 ...
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Seattle Symphony musicians approve 'strike authorisation'
The musicians of the Seattle Symphony could become the next group of US orchestral players to face a work stoppage after voting on and approving a 'strike authorisation' yesterday. The Seattle Symphony and Opera Players' Organization (SSOPO) has been negotiating with both the Symphony and Opera managements since the ...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Robert deMaine offered Los Angeles Philharmonic job
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist, Robert deMaine, has been offered the job of principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter's music director, Gustavo Dudamel, made the offer after deMaine completed a trial week with the orchestra. As of Tuesday 16 October, there had been no official ...
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Early music ensemble Pallade Musica wins Baroque contest
Montreal-based early music ensemble Pallade Musica won the $3,000 grand prize in Early Music America's first Baroque Performance Competition in New York. The ensemble comprises Tanya LaPerrière, violin, Elinor Frey, cello, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, and Mylène Bélanger, harpsichord. New York-based ensemble The Sebastians won the $1,000 audience award.
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Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier and Dami Kim share first prize at Joseph Joachim competition in Hannover
Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier, from Moldova, and Dami Kim, from South Korea, shared first prize at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany. Both players received the full first-prize award of €50,000. Third prize went to Tobias Feldmann from Germany, who also won the critics' prize and the audience prize.
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Scottish babies to get free Royal Scottish National Orchestra CD
Every baby born in Scotland over the next twelve months will be given a free CD of music recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, reports heraldscotland.com. The CD will be distributed to 220 registrar offices across the country, and is expected to reach up to 60,000 families. ...
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Restorer and bow maker Jean-Frédéric Schmitt dies at 75
The restorer and bow maker Jean-Frédéric Schmitt has died at the age of 75. In his Lyon workshop he did restoration and sound adjustments for many leading musicians, and worked on nearly 300 valuable Italian instruments. Born in 1937 in a suburb of Grenoble, France, Schmitt studied at the ...
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Martin Beaver and Clive Greensmith to direct Colburn School chamber programme
Violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith are to join the faculty of the Colburn Conservatory of Music next autumn. They will be directors of the school's string chamber music programme. Beaver and Greensmith are both members of the Tokyo Quartet, which will disband at the end of the ...
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Violinist and veteran concertmaster Theo Olof dies aged 88
Theo Olof, the former co-concertmaster of The Hague Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, has died at the age of 88. Born in Bonn in 1924, he fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933, and began studying with Oskar Back. In 1935 he made his debut with the ...
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Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Michel Schwalbé dies at 92
Violinist Michel Schwalbé, who led the Berlin Phllharmonic through most of the Karajan era, has died at the age of 92. Born in 1919, in Radom, Poland, Schwalbé studied violin from the age of eight with Moritz Frenkel in Warsaw. In 1933 he went to Paris to study with ...
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ArticleMission to save historic London studio
Campaign to preserve Chelsea building where Casals, Tertis, Kochanski and Thibaud played
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Violinist Mieko Kanno joins Royal Conservatoire of Scotland faculty
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow has appointed Mieko Kanno as its new head of strings. The Japanese-born violinist starts in her new post in January 2013. She is currently head of performance at Durham University and is also a musicologist specialising in contemporary music. Kanno studied in ...
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Cavaleri Quartet wins International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg
The Cavaleri Quartet won first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg for string quartets and piano trios. The UK-based ensemble received €20,000 plus the €10,000 Mendelssohn Prize. Second prize went to the Calidore Quartet from the US and Canada.
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Violinist and cellist perform in Internet2 demo
Violinist Marjorie Bagley and cellist Cheng-Hou Lee took part in a performance on Tuesday to demonstrate the musical potential of Internet2 videoconferencing technology. They played the Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia with Bagley in Philadelphia and Lee some 820 miles away in DeKalb, Illinois. The demonstration employed low-latency audio and videoconferencing ...
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First six weeks of Minnesota Orchestra season cancelled
The management of the Minnesota Orchestra has locked out its musicians after they rejected pay cuts that would take their average annual salary from $135,000 to $89,000. The orchestra also cancelled the first six weeks of its autumn season – a total of 17 performances including the 18 October season-opening ...
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Bow maker Benoît Rolland receives $500k MacArthur grant
The French bow maker Benoît Rolland has been named one of 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 no-strings-attached 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation. Rolland trained as a violinist before studying bow making in Mirecourt with Bernard Ouchard. After working as a bow maker in France ...
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Female viola maker Ulrike Dederer takes Cremona Triennale gold
The winners of the 2012 Cremona Triennale lutherie competition have been announced. For the first time in the contest’s 36-year history, the judges awarded a gold medal to a female maker: Ulrike Dederer, a German-born luthier now based in Zurich, Switzerland, took the first prize in the viola category. ...
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Four Stradivaris among Canada Council for the Arts' three-year loans
Eighteen Canadian string players have won the right to perform on rare instruments or bows for the next three years, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). The thirteen violinists and five cellists all participated in a competition-style selection process to receive instruments in the care of the ...
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Two string soloists and a quartet selected as BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3 has announced the players chosen for its New Generation Artists scheme this year. Violinist Elena Urioste, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, and the Apollon Musagète Quartet from Poland will receive opportunities to develop live and recorded performances for broadcast over the next two years. Urioste, a US-born, Mexican–Basque ...
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Auction house Tarisio acquires Cozio online instrument archive
The internet-based auction house Tarisio has announced that it has acquired Cozio, the online instrument archive. In a statement, Tarisio explained that the Cozio website will be substantially redesigned to include higher-quality images, greater consideration for owners' privacy, a shift towards authentic and representational instruments, and frequent content from ...