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NewsWinners announced for the 2024 Leonid Kogan International Competition for Young Violinists
The €2,000 first prize in the senior category was awarded to 23-year-old Japanese violinist Wakana Kimura
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NewsMissing: 18th-century Italian bass worth $150,000
Last seen in Baldwin, NY, the bass belongs to Brian Fountain, principal bassist of the São Paolo Opera House Orchestra, who has declared the instrument stolen following a fallen-through consignment deal
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NewsArtis Quartet to disband after 45 years
The Viennese string quartet has announced it will end its career at the end of 2025
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NewsA long-lost octet receives its world premiere recording - more than 125 years after its composition
Charles Martin Loeffler’s 1897 Octet lay unpublished, unrecorded and unheard until its rediscovery in April 2020
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NewsA digital asset company has tokenised the 1708 ‘Empress Caterina’ Stradivari violin
Galaxy Digital Holdings and the instrument’s owner, Yat Siu, are using the digital representation of the $9 million Stradivari violin as collateral to secure a loan
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NewsViolinist Sandy Yamamoto takes up artistic director role in Texas
The former member of the Miró Quartet will become artistic director of Austin Chamber Music Center from September 2024
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NewsNine-year-old wins the 2024 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition
Kai Xuan Travis Wong, a nine-year-old violinist from Singapore, beat more than 100 others in the Italian competition for young violinists
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NewsWinners announced at the 2024 Klein International String Competition
20-year-old violist Pearl de la Motte won the grand prize of $5,000, plus a host of performance opportunities
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NewsDmytro Udovychenko wins the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition
The Ukrainian violinist scooped first prize of €25,000, concert engagements and loan of a Stradivari violin, in a final round full of performances from many familiar faces in today’s violin competition circuit
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NewsThe Juilliard School announces its new graduate resident quartet
Championing the music of lesser-known women composers, the Katarina Quartet will enjoy a two-year residency from September 2024
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NewsObituary: Hungarian violinist-violist György Konrád
The founding member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra was 99
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NewsCompetitors announced for 2024 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition
24 violin contestants will have the chance to compete in this year’s competition in September
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NewsConcert Artists Guild and Young Classical Artists Trust announce 2024 season Grand Prize winners
2024 Sphinx Competition winner Nathan Amaral and pianist Amiri Harewood will join the rosters of both organisations, and will enjoy tailored artist management and career development opportunities
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NewsViolinist Mikhail Pochekin signs with Conciertos Augusto
Pochekin joins the roster for representation in Spain
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NewsO Live Music, Where Art Thou? Musicians protest against Northern Ballet’s plans to replace orchestra with recordings
50 protesters dressed as William Shakespeare marched against Northern Ballet’s plans to axe musicians’ jobs from June, ahead of a performance of Romeo and Juliet at London’s Sadler’s Wells
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NewsNYO launches project to unite musical teenagers
As One celebrates ten years of NYO Inspire, which provides musical opportunities to underserved young people at a time when music education provision is declining
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NewsA conductor’s baton sends Pavel Šporcl’s blue violin flying mid-concerto
Watch the heart-stopping moment when Pavel Šporcl’s signature blue violin drops from his hands during a concert
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn takes up role at London’s Royal Academy of Music
The US violinist will assume the role of visiting professor from September 2024
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NewsViolinist announced as director of chamber music at Peabody Conservatory
Violinist of the Cavani Quartet Annie Fullard will take on the role of director of Chamber Music and Sidney M. Friedberg chair of chamber music from autumn 2024
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