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Violinist from Nazareth wins 'courage in the arts' award
A 34-year-old violinist from Nazareth has been named as one of the recipients of the 2012 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Awards for the Arts. Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar is a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and is the general director of the Barenboim-Said Conservatory in Nazareth and the Barenboim-Said Music Centre ...
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Paul Watkins to replace David Finckel as Emerson Quartet cellist
The Emerson Quartet has announced that cellist David Finckel will leave the ensemble at the end of the 2012–13 season. His replacement will be the British cellist and conductor Paul Watkins. The personnel change is the quartet's first since 1979, when Finckel replaced original cellist Eric Wilson three years after ...
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra launches internet concerto competition for soloist
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is using the internet to find a worthy concerto soloist for one of its 2012–13 subscription programmes. Violinists, cellists and other instrumentalists can upload audition videos on YouTube in a competition that the PSO claims is the first of its kind by a major ...
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett to star as Paganini in movie biopic of his hero
David Garrett is set to make his movie debut as Paganini in a new biopic of the great violinist and composer, reports Variety. The Devil's Violinist has a budget of between $15m and $20m, and is due to begin filming in Europe this August. The film's writer ...
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French violinist Devy Erlih dies in road accident
The violinist, conductor and pedagogue Devy Erlih died in a road accident in Paris on Tuesday morning. He was on his way to the École normale de musique when he was hit by a truck. He was 83 years old. Born in Paris in 1928 to Romanian–Jewish parents, Erlih ...
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US aviation bill creates national policy for instruments on planes
Musicians in the US have cause for celebration after Congress approved provisions for a uniform national policy on carrying instruments on planes. The provisions are included in the Federal Aviation Authority bill, which after 23 short-term extensions since 2007 has now been reauthorised for the next four years. ...
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Atos Trio wins Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship
The UK's Borletti-Buitoni Trust has awarded a £15,000 special ensemble fellowship to the Atos Trio. The German ensemble comprises violinist Annette von Hehn, cellist Stefan Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe. The Trust has also given fellowships worth £12,000 each to German cellist Maximilian Hornung and the violin–piano duo of ...
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Fiddler Rona Wilkie is crowned BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012
Fiddle player Rona Wilkie, 22, from Oban, has won the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012 competition. She beat five other competitiors in the grand final at Glasgow's City Halls. Wilkie wins a recording session with BBC Scotland, a performance at the Scots Trad Music Awards and a year's ...
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Austrian cellist Kian Soltani wins Antonio Janigro Competition
Kian Soltani won first prize at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old Austrian, who studies with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Music Academy, received HRK 60,000 (£6,500). Joon Ho Shim of South Korea took second prize. Third prize went to Polish cellist Tomasz Daroch.
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Cleveland Institute of Music appoints Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty to faculty
Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty will join the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in autumn 2012. Zenaty, who studied with Josef Suk and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic in 1983, has taught for the past 15 years at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber ...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra offers free webcasts
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has launched a high-definition webcast player allowing users to view a series of concerts for free. According to an Associated Press report, the orchestra said that it is the first US orchestra to offer a series of free webcasts. The new webcast player mimics ...
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Hallé orchestra to perform Bernstein musical Wonderful Town
Sixty-five members of the Manchester-based Hallé orchestra will perform for a new production of Bernstein's Wonderful Town, forming what the show's producers are calling one of the biggest orchestras ever used for a musical. Mark Elder will conduct the orchestra for 16 performances at the Lowry in Salford between ...
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Violinist Alexander Velinzon appointed Seattle Symphony concertmaster
Alexander Velinzon has been appointed concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony. The Russian-born violinist has been assistant concertmaster of Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2005. He will start his new role in June of this year. Velinzon succeeds Maria Larionoff, who stepped down at the end of the 2010–11 season. Born ...
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Chicago violin shop owner sues online critic
Chunyee Lu, a restorer and dealer in Chicago, has launched a libel lawsuit against an online writer who posted critical comments about his Guadagnini Violin Shop on reviews websites. According to Lu's lawyer, the writer posted under various names, but all the messages have been traced to the same IP ...
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Croatian duo 2Cellos to play on US TV show Glee
2Cellos, the young Croatian duo and cover stars of The Strad's January issue, will appear on the hit Fox TV show Glee on 31 January in the US. Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser will perform 'Smooth Criminal', the track that made them YouTube sensations, in a special Michael Jackson tribute ...
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Stradivari cello once owned by Bernard Greenhouse nets record sum at auction
A 1707 Stradivari cello that was owned by Bernard Greenhouse for half a century has been sold by sealed bid for a record price. According to the New York Times, the 'Countess of Stanlein' cello was bought by a Montreal arts patron for in excess of $6m. Christopher Reuning, the ...
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Juilliard's historical performance programme receives $20m gift
The Juilliard School's graduate-level historical performance programme has been endowed to the tune of $20m with a gift from the school's board chairman, Bruce Kovner. The programme, which began in 2009 and focuses on music from the 17th and 18th centuries, offers tuition-free training for student violinists, cellists, double ...
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US debut for Menuhin Violin Competition
The Menuhin Competition, the two-yearly international contest for violinists under the age of 22, will be staged in the US for the first time in 2014. It will be hosted by the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. The number of American participants at ...
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ArticleViolist Matthew Lipman wins Minneapolis Young Artist Competition
Violist Matthew Lipman won the $7,500 first prize and the $1,000 grand prize at the WAMSO Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association's Young Artist Competition in Minneapolis, US. Lipman, 19, studies with Heidi Castleman at the Juilliard School of Music. Second prize went to cellist Hans Goldstein, 23. Violist ...
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Violin pedagogue Jaroslav Vanecek dies aged 91
Jaroslav Vanecek, the Czech-born violin and viola pedagogue, has died at the age of 91. His career teaching in the UK and Ireland spanned seven decades, from 1949 until 2001. Born in Bratislava in 1920, Vanecek studied at the National Conservatoire in Prague, where his violin tutors included ...