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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 ...
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Trial of violin dealer Dietmar Machold to continue in November
The trial in Vienna of violin dealer Dietmar Machold has been extended by two days. Machold was in court on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week, but the session did not end in a verdict. The judge adjourned proceedings and the trial is set to continue on 5 and 7 ...
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1694 Stradivari cello to go back on display after accident
One of the rarest Stradivari cellos in existence has been repaired after an accident last April. The decorated 1694 instrument suffered damage to its neck when it hit the edge of a table during a photographic session. On 25 September it will be returned to its display case in Madrid's ...
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Chinese violinist Ying Fu wins first prize at Rodolfo Lipizer competition
Chinese violinist Ying Fu, 28, won the €12,000 first prize at the Premio Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy. Fu, who studies with Cho-Liang Lin at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and previously studied there with the late Sergiu Luca, joined the first violin section ...
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Stolen cello found outside San Francisco opera house
A cello that was stolen from San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Sunday has been returned to its student owner, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Bubenreuth cello, worth around $10,000, was left outside the city's opera house just before midnight on Tuesday. No arrests have so far been ...
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Violin dealer Dietmar Machold goes on trial in Vienna
The German-born violin dealer Dietmar Machold went on trial in Vienna yesterday, facing charges of serious fraud, embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy. The trial is set to last until Friday, and if Machold is found guilty, he could face up to ten years in prison. According to a Reuters report, ...
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Couple caught on CCTV fleeing San Francisco Conservatory with cello
Police in San Francisco have released video footage of a man and woman they want to trace in connection with the theft of a cello from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, reports KTVU. The well-dressed couple, who investigators have dubbed 'Bonnie and Clyde', were seen entering the conservatoire, checking ...
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Students observe Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in fashion makeover project
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the New York-based Parsons The New School for Design have launched a pilot scheme to redesign concert attire for orchestral musicians. Sixteen Parsons students will work on the project this autumn, observing BSO players as they perform, and designing prototypes of concert clothing ...
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Violinists Wang Xiao and Aleksandra Kuls win Joseph Szigeti competition
The first prize at the Joseph Szigeti International Violin and Viola Competition in Budapest was shared by violinists Wang Xiao and Aleksandra Kuls. Wang, 25, from China, studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Lucie Robert. Kuls, 21, from Poland, is a student of Kaja Danczowska at the ...
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Armida Quartet takes top prize in Munich ARD Competition
The Armida Quartet won first prize in the string quartet division of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. The German ensemble received €24,000 and also won the audience prize. The Novus Quartet from South Korea took second prize. Third prize went to the Calidore Quartet from the US and ...
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Veriko Tchumburidze and Noah Lee win Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians
Sixteen-year-old Veriko Tchumburidze from Georgia/Turkey won first prize in the violin division of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Montreux and Vevey, Switzerland. Noah Lee, 12, took first prize in the cello division. Tchumburidze and Lee each received €3,000.
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Israeli cellist Amit Peled to play Casals's Gofriller cello
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled has been given use of Pablo Casals's c.1700 Matteo Gofriller. Peled played for Casals's widow, Marta Casals Istomin, over the summer, and has now received the Gofriller from her and the Casals Foundation. Casals acquired the Gofriller in 1913. Other cellists to have played ...
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Lumiere Quartet wins Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano
The Lumiere Quartet won first prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano, Switzerland, which this year was for chamber music ensembles. The quartet, whose members come from France, Australia and the Ukraine, received €12,000. Second prize was shared between the Catalyst Quartet, from the US, and ...
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Toronto International Film Festival hosts world premiere of A Late Quartet
A film about a fictional New York string quartet had its world premiere last night at the Toronto International Film Festival. A Late Quartet, directed by Yaron Zilberman, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir as members of an ensemble that is thrown into crisis ...
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YouTube cello star Steven Sharp Nelson to release album with Sony
The Piano Guys, a Utah group featuring cellist Steven Sharp Nelson and pianist Jon Schmidt, have signed to Sony Masterworks on the back of their YouTube success. Their YouTube channel has amassed more than 750,000 subscribers, and their music videos – which usually fuse pop songs and classical influences – ...
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Johannes Brahms Competition announces winners
The Aris Quartet, from Germany, and the German–Russian duo of cellist Daniel Wachsmuth and pianist Ludmilla Kogan shared first prize in the chamber music division of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. First prize in the violin category went to Petr Matejak, 24, from the Czech Republic. Seventeen-year-old ...
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Violist Piero Farulli, founder of the Fiesole School of Music, dies aged 92
The violist Piero Farulli, who played in the Quartetto Italiano for 30 years, has died in Mugello at the age of 92. Born in Florence in 1920, he joined the Quartetto Italiano – then called the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano – in 1947, replacing Lionello Forzanti, who co-founded the group ...
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Violinist Levon Chilingirian to teach at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Levon Chilingirian has left the Royal College of Music (RCM) to join the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as professor of violin. The 64-year-old violinist studied at the RCM after moving to London at the age of 12. In 1971 he co-founded the Chilingirian Quartet, which has been quartet ...
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US cellist Matthew Allen wins Carlos Prieto competition
Matthew Allen has won first prize in the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition in Morelia, Mexico. Allen, 20, who studies with Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music, received $10,000. Second prize was shared between Georgi Anichenko, 27, from Belarus and Arnold Choi, also 27, from Canada. No third ...
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Violist Louise Lansdown named head of strings at Birmingham Conservatoire
Louise Lansdown has joined Birmingham Conservatoire as its new head of strings. She has been a full-time viola and chamber music tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester since 2001. She is also director of chamber music at Pro Corda, the international chamber music academy at Leiston ...