All News articles – Page 164
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NewsTasmin Little awarded honorary Birmingham City degree
The British violinist will receive her Honorary Doctorate alongside students graduating from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media – including Birmingham Conservatoire – on 24 July
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FocusCellist Steven Isserlis receives Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music
Inaugurated in 1924 and endowed by Walter Willson Cobbett, the medal is presented annually to a musician for services to chamber music
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ArticleTelegraph Quartet named San Francisco Conservatory of Music quartet-in-residence
The ensemble will take up the post from the 2017-18 season for a period of three years
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ArticleLara Boschkor wins Tonali Violin Competition in Germany
The 17-year-old Kronberg Academy student took home the top prize of €10,000 for her performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto
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ArticleViolinist Joanna Frankel named Columbus Symphony concertmaster
The first female to be appointed to the role in the orchestra's history, Frankel has served as the Symphony's acting concertmaster since September 2016
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ArticleConductor Riccardo Muti to lead joint Italian and Iranian orchestral concerts
Celebrating 20 years of Muti's 'Roads of Friendship' initiative, the performances by Italian and Iranian musicians take place in Tehran on 6 July and in Ravenna on 8 July
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ArticleTarisio Trust Young Artist Grants 2017 awarded to string players and ensembles
Online instrument and bow auction house Tarisio has announced four of the recipients of its 2017 Tarisio Trust Young Artists Grants - with a fifth to be chosen by the public
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ArticleCellist Ben Davies joins Birmingham Conservatoire string faculty
Davies has previously taught at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Holloway University of London, Marlborough College, Wells Cathedral School and the Guildhall School of Music
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ArticleCalder Quartet signs exclusive recording contract with Pentatone
The US group’s first album for the label will focus on Beethoven quartets
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ArticleNorwegian Air refuses to transport violin and viola in the cabin despite favourable hand baggage policy
Violinist AlÄ«na Vižine and violist Zane Š turme claim they were forced to check their instruments into the hold on the flight from Copenhagen to Riga, even though airline policy states violins and violas can be carried as hand luggage
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ArticleMidori to join Curtis Institute of Music violin faculty in 2018
The violinist, who has taught at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for 14 years, will join the Curtis Institute full-time from the 2018-2019 academic year
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ArticleStudents forced to leave Newark School of Violin Making over revoked visas
Lincoln College, which manages the Newark School, has been stripped of its licence to issue international student visas following a poor Ofsted report in 2016
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ArticleMusician told to leave Aer Lingus flight for attempting to stow her violin in the cabin
Freelance musician and Alexander Technique tutor Aingeala De Búrca claims that she was removed from the flight from Bristol to Dublin this week when she attempted to stow her instrument in the overhead locker
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ArticleWIN the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn CD
In the July 2017 issue of The Strad, we talk to the four members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion – about their continuing fascination with the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, whose string quartets they are ...
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ArticleThe Strad July 2017 issue is out now
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses Haydn's 'Sun' quartets and the dawn of the string quartet genre
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ArticleRemembering Bernard Millant 1929–2017
The esteemed bow maker, dealer, author and expert died in April aged 87. Jean-François Raffin, who worked with Millant and co-authored the celebrated three-volume work L'Archet with him, remembers his friend and colleague
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ArticleInternational Society of Bassists names winners of Performance and Makers competitions
Aaron Olguin was awarded the Gary Karr Prize in the Solo Division of the Performance Competition, while Convention Favourite in the Makers Competition was awarded to Arnold Schnitzer
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos acquires 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius violin
The violinist first encountered the instrument in 1994 and was reunited with it more than 20 years later through Florian Leonhard Fine Violins
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ArticleCellists Thomas Mesa and Zlatomir Fung win 2017 Astral Auditions
The two cellists are among six young musicians chosen for the Astral Artists career development programme over the next four years
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ArticleCecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition 2017 names 30 semi-finalists
The young violists from 20 different countries will compete at the new Birmingham Conservatoire from 18 to 24 November
