All News articles – Page 149
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NewsLark Quartet calls it quits after 34 years
Pioneering all-female ensemble based in New York will be playing final concerts in 2019
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NewsWho are the string players in Eurovision Young Musicians
Biennial classical competition held this year in Edinburgh with 18 contestants, of which ten play bowed strings
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NewsCleveland Orchestra gets surprise $9.3m gift from cereal heiress
Jean Hower Taber bequest comes a few months after another multi-million dollar gift marking orchestra’s 100th season
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NewsCello stolen from LA Opera orchestra principal
John Walz’s 2010 Mario Miralles cello was taken from his San Diego hotel room yesterday
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NewsAndré Rieu again breaks records with cinema broadcast
Big screen relays of the Dutch violinist’s 2018 Maastricht concert took £1.66m at the UK & Ireland box office
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NewsTimothy Chooi awarded Verbier Festival Academy’s highest honour
The a 24-year-old Canadian violinist takes cash prize and other benefits as summer masterclass academy’s most accomplished musician
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NewsCellist 'humiliated' and removed from American Airlines flight – despite having booked second seat
Airline blames ‘miscommunication’ for incident which saw a student musician escorted off an aircraft having already strapped in her cello and been seated
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NewsReport calls for freedom of movement post-Brexit
Almost half of UK musicians have noticed an impact on their work as a result of Brexit
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NewsConcertgebouw drops Daniele Gatti in wake of new allegations
The Italian conductor was named in Washington Post exposé last week, which prompted flurry of reports from female members of the orchestra
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NewsDirector of Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra stabbed with a fork
Mark Turner is recovering in hospital after serious eye injury
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FocusBritish Airways in the spotlight as violinist complains of boarding drama
Savitri Grier was asked to place her on-loan Goffriller violin in the hold but was eventually allowed to board when cabin crew was consulted
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NewsCleveland Orchestra member reunited with violin stolen at gunpoint
Violinist was victim of armed robbery at his home last week – three teenagers have now been arrested
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NewsJennifer Stumm named viola professor in Vienna
The American violist will continue as a guest professor at London’s Royal College of Music
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NewsWinners announced at 2018 Schoenfeld Competition
Lorenz Chen and Zlatomir Fung win top honours at the event in Harbin, China
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NewsWilliam Preucil suspended from Cleveland concertmaster post
The violinist has also resigned from his teaching position at the Cleveland Institute of Music
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VideoGagliano violin sold to pawn shop for $50 in Boston
A 1759 violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, worth an estimated $250,000, was old to a Boston pawn shop for $50. It had been stolen from during a recent break-in in the city. This video from Boston 25 News.
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NewsUlysses Quartet wins Schoenfeld chamber music prize
New York based group nets $20,000 first prize in Chinese competition
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NewsCleveland concertmaster accused of sexual harassment in Washington Post exposé
William Preucil named among a number of others in six-month investigation into harassment in the classical music industry
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NewsVirgin Trains refuses boarding to BBC Symphony Orchestra double bassist
Margarida Castro was prevented from travelling home following a BBC Proms concert after being told by the train guard that her instrument exceeded the maximum luggage size
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NewsViolinist wins ABC Young Performers Award 2018
Emily Sun adds Australia’s ABC Classic FM competition to an already impressive list of recent successes
