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Juilliard plans China institute to offer postgraduate and pre-professional music tuition
New York's Juilliard School has signed a framework agreement to set up an educational institute in Tianjin, 75 miles south-east of Beijing. If the project goes ahead, it will be the 107-year-old conservatoire's first physical expansion beyond its New York City campus. 'This is certainly the first project of ...
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Amaryllis Quartet awarded €60,000 career-development prize by Frankfurt foundation
The German–Swiss Amaryllis Quartet is the first recipient of a major new chamber music prize awarded by the Frankfurt-based Jürgen Ponto Foundation. The €60,000 award will be given every two years to a young German, Swiss or Austrian quartet that has already won an international chamber music competition. The ...
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Cellist Sol Gabetta wins €10,000 Würth Prize
Cellist Sol Gabetta has been named the winner of the 2012 Würth Prize. Worth €10,000, the award is given annually to musicians and ensembles considered to be role models for encouraging young people’s interest in classical music. It is organised by the German branch of the Jeunesses Musicales international youth ...
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Could violin concerto found in Dresden be the work of Antonio Vivaldi?
An 18th-century violin concerto, possibly by Antonio Vivaldi, has been discovered in the archives of the Dresden State Library. The technically demanding 17-minute work has been attributed to the Italian composer by Baroque expert Michael Talbot, and may receive its modern premiere this September. The work in A major ...
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Violinist Sheldon Rotenberg, who played with Boston Symphony Orchestra for 43 years, dies
US violinist Sheldon Rotenberg died on 23 June at the age of 95. A veteran of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), he was originally hired by music director Serge Koussevitzky in 1948. Rotenberg retired from the orchestra 43 years later in 1991, having played under four subsequent music directors: Charles ...
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Guarneri 'del Gesù' c.1725 'Folinari' violin sells for £1.5m
The c.1725 'Folinari' violin, one of the earliest known instruments made by Guarneri 'del Gesù', has sold for £1.52m at auction. The violin was the star lot in yesterday's Tarisio sale in London, and according to Tarisio director Jason Price, was only the second 'del Gesù' to have appeared at ...
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Violinist Nicola Benedetti to open final day of Scotland's T in the Park festival
Nicola Benedetti is set to become the first classical artist to perform on the main stage at Scotland’s biggest annual pop and rock music festival. The violinist will be the first act on stage for the final day of T in the Park, which takes place from 6 to 8 ...
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Flemish Baroque group La Petite Bande has its government subsidy withdrawn
The Flemish Baroque orchestra La Petite Bande will lose its government subsidy in January 2013. The decision by the Flemish government comes despite almost 19,000 people worldwide signing a petition against cuts to the ensemble's funding. La Petite Bande was founded in 1972 by violinist, violist and conductor Sigiswald ...
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Players and scientists to discuss music and the brain at festival
This August, the New Mexico city of Santa Fe will host a symposium on music and its effects on the human brain. Orchestral musicians, soloists and chamber music players will take part in the conference, entitled ‘Music, the Brain, Medicine and Wellness’, held as part of the annual Santa Fe ...
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Cellist and teacher Gerhard Mantel dies at 82
The cellist and pedagogue Gerhard Mantel has died at the age of 82. A longtime professor at the Hochschule in Frankfurt, he wrote books about cello technique and string topics such as intonation, as well as a cello method for children and a set of 25 cello duos. Born ...
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Composer Jeff Myers wins violinist Hilary Hahn's encore contest
American composer Jeff Myers has won an online competition to complete Hilary Hahn's encores project. The violinist had already commissioned 26 composers from 17 countries to write new short-form pieces for violin and piano for the project, named 'In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores'. The 27th piece, Myers's The ...
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Violinists win Khachaturian contest
The jury of the Aram Khachaturian International Competition in Yerevan, Armenia, awarded the Grand Prix to French–Russian violinist Fedor Roudine, and joint first prize to Ayako Tanabe, from Japan, and Pavel Milyukov, from Russia. There was no second prize. Third prize went to another Japanese violinist, Daichi Nakamura.
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Haiti and El Salvador launch El Sistema music education programmes
Two countries in Latin America have launched programmes based on El Sistema, Venezuela’s hugely successful music education scheme. Haiti and El Salvador have recently announced their own versions of the initiative, which aims to bring about social change through music. In Haiti, the government-backed programme will involve the creation ...
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Violinist Frank Almond to chronicle life of his 1715 'Lipinski' violin
Frank Almond, the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, is set to celebrate the history of the Stradivari violin that he has played on since 2008 – the 1715 'Lipinski'. He aims to raise $30,000 via crowdfunding website Kickstarter to make a recording of violin music associated with the instrument's ...
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Violinist Tessa Lark takes first prize at Naumburg Competition
Tessa Lark, 23, won first prize at the Naumburg International Violin Competition in New York. The Kentucky native, who studied with Miriam Fried, Paul Biss and Lucy Chapman at the New England Conservatory, received $10,000. Second prize went to Elly Suh, 23, from South Korea. Another South Korean violinist, 26-year-old ...
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Washington International Competition for Strings names winners
Violinist Stefani Collins, violist Matthew Lipman and cellist Matthew Zalkind won first prizes at the Washington International Competition for Strings. Collins, 23, is a student of Sylvia Rosenberg at the Juilliard School. Lipman, 20, studies with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory, also at Juilliard. Zalkind, 25, is a student ...
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Former BBC Symphony Orchestra and RPO violinist Keith Gurry dies
British violinist Keith Gurry, who played in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) and was a longtime member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, has died at the age of 66. Born in London, he began his violin studies with Marta Eitler, before going to the Royal Academy of Music in ...
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International Federation of Musician petition EU over instruments on planes
The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) has launched an online petition with the aim of persuading EU legislators to take action on the issue of musical instruments on planes. The Paris-based organisation, which represents 72 musicians' unions worldwide, is calling for Europe to follow the example of the US, ...
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Russian violinist Olga Volkova takes top prize at Carl Nielsen Competition
Olga Volkova won first prize at the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in Odense, Denmark. The 21-year-old Russian, who studies with Zakhar Bron in Cologne, received DKK 125,000 (£13,500). The second prize went to Niklas Walentin Jensen, 18, from Denmark. Eva Thorarinsdottir, a 25-year-old violinist from Iceland, took third prize. ...
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Stefan Lindholm and Christian Lijsen claim top prizes in Pisogne violin making competition
German maker Christian Lijsen and Swedish luthier Stefan Lindholm won multiple prizes at the third International Violin Making Competition in Pisogne, Italy. Lijsen took both the gold and silver medals for his copies of historical instruments. Pal Racz, from Hungary, received the bronze medal. In the antiqued instruments ...