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Russian cellist Alexey Stadler wins Tonali Grand Prix
Russian cellist Alexey Stadler, 21, won first prize at this year's Tonali Grand Prix in Hamburg, Germany. Stadler, who studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, received €10,000. The Tonali Grand Prix is an annual competition that alternates between violinists, cellists and ...
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Man who stole violins from Glinka Museum is detained after second robbery
Moscow police have arrested a convicted thief who once stole a Stradivari violin on suspicion of stealing £80,000 in cash and valuables from a city apartment. Jakob Subbota, 43, a Chechen native, was convicted in 1998 of stealing a Stradivari violin and a Stainer violin from the Glinka Museum ...
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Lost Persichetti violin sonata set for debut
A sonata for violin and piano by American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) is to have its world premiere this September. The 1941 work was discovered by University of Utah violin professor Hasse Borup in the archives of the New York Public Library (NYPL) in 2010. The handwritten score was ...
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ArticleGerman customs seize violinist Yuzuko Horigome's Guarneri 'del Gesù'
A Japanese violinist whose 1741 Guarneri 'del Gesù' was seized by customs authorities in Germany has been told she must pay €380,000 (£300,000) to get it back, reports AFP. Yuzuko Horigome, who is based in Belgium, was flying home last week from Japan via Frankfurt ...
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LPO violinist's discrimination claim rejected by tribunal
A London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) violinist who was disciplined after signing a letter in protest against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing at the 2011 BBC Proms has had her claim of discrimination struck out by an employment tribunal. Sarah Streatfeild was one of four LPO musicians who put their ...
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Noé Inui wins Verbier Festival Academy's Prix Julius Baer
Violinist Noé Inui has won this year's Prix Julius Baer, worth CHF10,000 (£6,500), awarded by the Verbier Festival Academy. Inui, 27, was born in Brussels to a Greek mother and a Japanese father, and now lives in Dusseldorf. He studied in Brussels, Paris, Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf, and his teachers have ...
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British bow maker and restorer Malcolm M. Taylor dies
British bow maker and restorer Malcolm Taylor, who was one of the Hills workshop's leading postwar makers, has died at the age of 78. Taylor joined W.E. Hill & Sons as an apprentice in 1949, and worked there until 1973. After leaving the firm he made bows under his own ...
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Colorado Symphony violinist sacked after after pleading guilty to sex offences
The Colorado Symphony has fired one of its violinists days after he pleaded guilty to child sex offences. David Waldman had been a member of the orchestra since 1994. He pleaded guilty last week to sex assault on a child and attempted sex assault on a child, and was given ...
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Pietro Guarneri violin stolen in London burglary
Police in Brent, north-west London, are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a Guarneri violin that was stolen in a burglary on 17 August. The Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin was in a blue canvas fabric case, together with two bows, one of which has a Hills stamp on ...
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Cellist, teacher and music festival founder David Wells dies aged 85
US cellist David Wells has died at the age of 85. Best known for his performances of the Bach Cello Suites, he co-founded the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Vermont. Born in East Chicago, Indiana, Wells began playing the cello when he was nine, and studied at ...
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Colorado Symphony violinist guilty of sex offences
A violinist in the Colorado Symphony Orchestra has admitted to improperly touching two of his daughter's friends during sleepovers at his home, reports the Denver Post. David Waldman was sentenced to ten years to life on an intensive supervision probation programme for sex offenders after pleading guilty to sexual ...
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Dutch violin maker and varnish expert Koen Padding dies
Dutch violin maker Koen Padding, whose passion for classical varnish was known to many luthiers through the products he sold under the Magister brand name, died suddenly last week. He was in his mid-fifties. Padding trained at the Newark School of Violin Making in the UK and then spent ...
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Call for 'Molitor' Stradivari violin to revisit Derry
An author from Northern Ireland wants a Stradivari found under a bed in Derry in 1988 to play a part in the city's UK City of Culture celebrations in 2013, reports the Derry Journal. Nuala McAllister Hart explored the story of the 1697 'Molitor' Stradivari while doing research for ...
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Zurich-based Trio Oreade triumphs at Munich International String Trio Competition
The Zurich-based Trio Oreade won first prize in the International String Trio Competition in Munich. The ensemble of violinist Yukiko Ishibashi, violist Ursula Sarnthein and cellist Christine Hu received €3,000. Munich trio Triple Strings took third prize; no second prize was awarded.
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ArticleViolin legend Ruggiero Ricci dies at 94
Violin virtuoso Ruggiero Ricci has died at the age of 94, of heart failure, according to his son Gian-Franco Ricci. He was a towering figure in the string world, a former child prodigy known for his technical brilliance and range of colour, which combined in definitive performances ...
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Cremona-based bow maker Giovanni Lucchi dies aged 69
The Italian bow maker Giovanni Lucchi has died at the age of 69. Born in Romagna, he originally trained as a double bassist before becoming a bow maker. He founded a school of bow making in Cremona in 1976. His reputation as a bow maker was such that he made ...
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Philadelphia Orchestra exits bankruptcy
The Philadelphia Orchestra has officially emerged from bankruptcy. In June a US bankruptcy court judge approved a reorganisation plan that will see the orchestra reduce the number of musicians from 105 to 95 and cut their pay by 15 per cent. The Philadelphia Orchestra Association said in a statement ...
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Cellist Natalia Gutman wins German music prize
Russian cellist Natalia Gutman has been awarded a €10,000 music prize by the Association of German Concert Agents (AGCA). The 69-year-old will receive the award at a ceremony in Stuttgart on 13 September. In its citation, the association praised Gutman for her contribution to musical life in Germany, particularly ...
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International Federation of Musicians calls on musicians to boycott orchestra
The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) has called for musicians worldwide to boycott the upcoming auditions for posts within the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO). The Paris-based organisation has accused the orchestra of dismissing nine of its musicians ‘for no reason whatsoever’, and of issuing new contracts to the remaining 70 ...
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Public funding cut for Dutch string quartets, chamber groups and festivals
The Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten, the Dutch performing arts fund, has slashed its funding for ensembles and arts projects. Only 80 arts companies will receive grants in the 2013–16 funding period, down from 118 in the previous round four years ago. Sixty per cent of applications – a total of ...