All News articles – Page 160
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VideoStudent in foam viola costume aims for marathon record
Alistair Rutherford, a.k.a. The Running Viola, is attempting Guinness World Record marathon run
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NewsDaniel Hope awarded Germany's Federal Cross of Merit
The now Berlin-based violinist was presented with the Verdienstkreuz am Bande on the evening of the premiere of a documentary about him
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NewsArchitects appointed for new London concert hall
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, firm responsible for New York High Line as well as a number of high-profile performing arts venues, chosen for City of London Centre for Music
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NewsUK ivory ban proposals include musical instrument exemption
British goverment has launched 12-week consultation on ivory ban proposals with suggested exemptions for musical instruments among other categories
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NewsTarisio launches peer-to-peer bridge financing programme
Web-based auction house Bridge Financing initiative aims to match artistically minded investors with musicians in need of loans to purchase instruments
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NewsCellist latest to fall victim to incomprehensible airline treatment
KLM proves unable to re-book seat for cello after flight cancellation, claims cellist Jacob Shaw, leaving him to pick up €650 bill
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NewsEuropean instrument and bow makers in 3/4-size benevolence
39 instruments and 41 bows now loaned to children aged 8 to 13 through second Con-takt Junior competition organised by Klanggestalten group
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NewsScottish quartet wins jury and audience prizes in Trondheim
The ninth Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, running alongside the Chamber Music Festival in Trondheim, Norway, was won by the Scotland-based Maxwell Quartet
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NewsAmerican Airlines offers ticket refund – but no more – for gig missed due to hand-luggage confusion
Violinist claims he was stopped from boarding with instrument despite the company’s policy and the advice of its own check-in staff
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NewsQuartet of Stradivarius instruments once owned by Paganini back in action
Quartetto di Cremona takes on full set of Strads previously played by the Hagen and Tokyo Quartets
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NewsViolin, viola and several bows stolen from Parisian flat
Giuseppe Rocca violin insured for €500,000 stolen from Julien Chauvin, violinist director of period instrument group Le Concert de la Loge
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NewsLinus Roth appointed artistic director of Leopold Mozart Competition
German violinist taking on Augsburg violin competition in time for tenth edition and 300th anniversary of Leopold Mozart’s birth
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NewsMenuhin Competition announces programme for 2018 event in Geneva
Taking place from 12 to 22 April 2018 the competition features 44 international entries as well as a festival of concerts and masterclasses
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NewsRustem Khamidullin wins second Benyamin Sönmez Cello Competition
Russian wins competition in Fethiye, Turkey, named in honour of brilliant Turkish cellist who died aged 28 in 2011
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NewsA new work for viola by Shostakovich discovered in Moscow State Archives
The short work for viola and piano, the discovery of which was announced on the composer’s birthday, appears to have been written in one sitting in 1931
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NewsZoë Keating reunited with cello after over 24 hours of it lost in airport luggage system
Drama plays out on Twitter for innovative cellist, travelling to London from Düsseldorf for Kings Place concert
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NewsPatricia Kopatchinskaja awarded $100,000 Swiss music prize
Government-sponsored prize selects violinist for its top music honour, the Grand Prix suisse de musique
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NewsZhuhai International Mozart Competition enters violin finals
Young musician competition has announced winners for two of three age groups
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NewsThe Strad October 2017 issue is out now
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra on learning to work as one in the Trio Zimmermann
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NewsCosima Soulez-Larivière wins inaugural Bartók World Competition
Twenty-year-old, educated at Menuhin School in England, takes first prize in all-female final
