All News articles – Page 161
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NewsSyrian refugee violinist loaned Stradivarius for big concert
Rami Basisah has been offered use of 1690 ‘Stephens’ Stradivari for Classic FM Live concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall
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NewsCanadian violinist Marc Djokic wins $125,000 Prix Goyer
Biennial prize for ’collaborative emerging artist’ offers package of cash and in-kind professional development benefits
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NewsViolin competition with $100,000 first prize returns in 2018
Second Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition now open for applications
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NewsSchubert Ensemble to disband in 35th season
50-date tour will culminate in farewell concert at Wigmore Hall in March 2018
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NewsPhoto gallery: Birmingham Conservatoire opens its new buildings
First purpose-built music college to be constructed in the UK since 1987 will also be the ‘last ever’ according to conservatoire principal, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber
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NewsARD Violin Competition awards no first prize – again
Munich event has many precedents of leaving the top spot empty, including at its last edition in 2013
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NewsBradetich Double Bass Competition names winner
Austrian 20-year-old Dominik Wagner takes $10,000 first prize and four-year career development deal
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NewsARD Competition announces violin finalists
Launched in 1952, the competition focuses each year on different instrumental categories, selected from 21 disciplines.
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NewsBradetich double bass competition heads into finals
Four finalists will compete for $10,000 top prize on Tuesday evening
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NewsRussian violinist and pedagogue Asya Kushner has died
Moscow media have reported the death of long-time Bolshoi Orchestra concertmaster and Moscow State Conservatory professor
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NewsNo first prize awarded at Tibor Varga Violin Competition
Swiss competition jury gives two second prizes after being unable to decide between 24-year-old Stella Chen and 16-year-old Saki Tozawa
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NewsViolinist, quartet and double bassist in new intake of BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3’s young classical talent platform accepts Aleksey Semenenko, Quatuor Arod and Misha Mullov-Abbado
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NewsThe lark descending – nudist viola player plays during naked sky dive
Australian violist Glen Donnelly’s stunt is raising money for body image charities
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NewsViolinist Dmitri Kogan dead at 38
Scion of Russian musical dynasty with international touring career dies of lymphatic cancer
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News17-year-old Anne Luisa Kramb takes top string prize at Manhattan Competition
Prize includes paid recital at Carnegie Hall to take place on 22 September this year
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NewsHighlights from Tarisio October auction: instruments by Santo Serafin and Andrea Guarneri
The online auctioneer’s full catalogue for the London-based auction will be released on 4 October
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NewsTrials of travelling musicians: violin not accepted as hand luggage on ferry
Scilly Steamship Company insists violin goes in the hold – yet maintains policy allowing two dogs per adult
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NewsObituary: Fredell Lack, 19 February 1922 - 20 August 2017
Child prodigy violinist who went on to be one of America’s most prolific teachers
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NewsViola player ‘humiliated’ by experience at British Airways check-in
Violist Rachel Roberts has called for a boycott of British Airways by musicians following a recent experience at the check-in counter at Dublin Airport
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NewsThe Strad September 2017 issue
is out nowCelebrated American violin tutor Dorothy DeLay remembered by former students, including Itzhak Perlman and Philippe Quint
