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South Korean violinist wins Wieniawski Competition

2011-10-23T00:00:00Z

South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon won first prize at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Pozna?, Poland. The 26-year-old, who has studied with Nam Yun Kim and Zakhar Bron, received €30,000. Second prize went to Miki Kobayashi, 21, from Japan. German violinist Stefan Tarara, 25, took third prize.

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Violinist says stalker left her living in fear

2011-10-23T00:00:00Z

Violinist Siân Philipps claims that a stalker stole her identity online, sent emails in her name and began squatting in a room under her flat. Philipps, who made her debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2004, said she was seeing an American man for five weeks before breaking off the ...

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Hallé orchestra told it can't call itself the UK's oldest

2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Hallé Orchestra has been told it can no longer promote itself as Britain's longest-established permanent professional orchestra. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) delivered the ruling after investigating a claim that the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) was older. The Hallé, which was formed in Manchester in 1858 by ...

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Amphion Quartet and Sybarite5 win CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition

2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Amphion Quartet and string quintet Sybarite5 have been named winners of the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition in New York. Both ensembles receive a management contract with the Concert Artists Guild and a New York recital.

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Fiorini violin snatched as owner orders snack in Vienna

2011-10-18T00:00:00Z

Police in Vienna have appealed for information on the whereabouts of a stolen Giuseppe Fiorini violin. The instrument, valued at up to €40,000, was snatched when its 32-year-old owner put it down as she ordered a bite to eat at a hotdog stand, according to reports in the Austrian media.

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Violinist Vanessa Mae plays Chechen date

2011-10-16T00:00:00Z

Violinist Vanessa Mae, the singer Seal, and actors Hilary Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme have been criticised by human rights organisations for taking part in a lavish concert for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on his 35th birthday. Vanessa Mae reportedly received a fee of $500,000 for performing in front of ...

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Violinist Miri Ben-Ari to play at Martin Luther King memorial

2011-10-13T00:00:00Z

Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari will perform at this Sunday's dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC. The US-resident Ben-Ari, who has become known for her hip-hop violin style, is the only non-African-American artist performing at the dedication ceremony, which will also feature addresses by civil rights ...

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Violins stolen from ex-BBC Symphony Orchestra player Keith Gurry

2011-10-12T00:00:00Z

Former BBC Symphony Orchestra violinist Keith Gurry is appealing for any information leading to the safe recovery of two violins and four bows that were stolen from his East London home. The stolen violins are by Francesco Guadagnini (Turin, 1888) and Ian Highfield (Birmingham, 1982). Also missing are a ...

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Lorin Maazel to sell 1783 Guadagnini violin at auction

2011-10-11T00:00:00Z

A 1783 Guadagnini violin owned by Lorin Maazel will feature in Tarisio's 10 November sale in New York. The 81-year-old conductor and violinist has had the instrument since he was 15 years old. Tarisio has placed an estimate of $800,000–$1,200,000 on the violin, and proceeds from the sale will support ...

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Pavel Haas Quartet's Dvorák disc wins record of the year at Gramophone Awards

2011-10-06T00:00:00Z

The Pavel Haas Quartet won the Chamber category and the recording of the year at the 2011 Gramophone Awards. The Czech ensemble won for its Supraphon disc of Dvo?ák's op.96 and op.106 quartets. There were no awards for string soloists this year.

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Newspaper readers pledge to buy cello for four-year-old cellist

2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A four-year-old boy from north London, whose cello lessons and instrument loan were cut by his local children's centre, has received more than £500 in donations towards getting his own cello. Ham&High readers pledged the money after reading Jahleel Weiser's story in the newspaper. The four-year-old from Highgate started ...

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Kelemen and Zaïde quartets share first prize in Beijing contest

2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Kelemen Quartet, from Hungary, and the Zaïde Quartet, from France, shared the top prize at the Beijing International Music Competition. Each quartet received $15,000. The Quiroga Quartet from Spain won third prize, with no second prize being awarded.

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Beethoven quartet movement receives premiere in Manchester

2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A lost Beethoven quartet movement is receiving its premiere in Manchester tomorrow, after a British academic pieced it together from fragments. Beethoven wrote the slow movement for his op.18 no.2 quartet in 1799 but discarded it in favour of a revised version. The original movement has not survived, but Barry ...

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German violinist Christian Tetzlaff signs to Ondine

2011-09-25T00:00:00Z

Christian Tetzlaff has signed a long-term recording deal with Finnish label Ondine. The German violinist's first recording with the label will feature concertos by Mendelssohn and Schumann with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi. The disc is set for release in November. Further releases in autumn 2012 ...

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American Erin Keefe, 31, takes Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster chair

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

Erin Keefe has been appointed concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra. The 31-year-old American succeeds Jorja Fleezanis, who left the orchestra in 2009. Keefe studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, and her teachers included Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, Philipp ...

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Philadelphia Orchestra plans to help China nurture orchestral musicians

2011-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Philadelphia Orchestra has signed an agreement with Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts to start a cultural exchange programme. The partnership aims to help find and nurture the next generation of Chinese orchestral musicians. Other plans involve performances by the orchestra in Beijing and other Chinese cities, ...

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Artists, academics urge London Philharmonic Orchestra to reconsider suspension of four string players

2011-09-22T00:00:00Z

Groups of artists and academics have written separate letters to The Telegraph and The Guardian urging the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) to reinstate the four musicians it suspended after they signed a letter calling for the BBC to cancel an Israel Philharmonic concert. Figures including film directors ...

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Chicago Lyric Opera violist Keith Abbott Conant dies at the age of 49

2011-09-21T00:00:00Z

Keith Abbott Conant, the principal violist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra has died of a heart attack at the age of 49. He had been a member of the orchestra since 1987, and its principal violist since 1997. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Conant studied viola ...

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Spanish violinist Ana María Valderrama wins Sarasate contest

2011-09-21T00:00:00Z

Ana María Valderrama has won the €10,000 first prize at the Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition in Pamplona, Spain. The 26-year-old Spaniard is a masters student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, where she studies with Antje Weithaas.Second prize went to Ji Yoon Lee, 19, from South ...

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Violin case deemed offensive weapon by Edinburgh police

2011-09-21T00:00:00Z

A violin case, a pizza shovel, a quill pen, a potato peeler and a pool ball in a sock are among hundreds of unusual items that police in Edinburgh have confiscated since 2009. The items were either used in attacks or deemed offensive weapons. Police seized the pizza shovel ...