All News articles – Page 169
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NewsCellist Steven Isserlis to receive €25,000 award in Germany
British cellist Steven Isserlis has been named as the winner of the 2017 Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward. Worth €25,000, the award will be presented at the Dresden Music Festival on 23 May, when Isserlis will perform Prokofiev's Cello Concerto in E minor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under ...
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NewsBirmingham Conservatoire viola student breaks world record dressed as a musical instrument
Alistair Rutherford broke the Guinness World Record for running the fastest half marathon in an instrument costume in Liverpool on Sunday
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NewsFormer Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Thomas Brandis has died aged 81
The violinist was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic between 1962 and 1983, and founded the Brandis Quartet
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News300-year-old Goffriller violin stolen from London Gatwick Express train
London violinist Carol Slater has issued a plea for the return of her instrument, which went missing from the overhead luggage rack a week ago
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NewsLondon concert venue The Forge to close
The Camden performing arts venue, which has hosted a wide range of musical genres over eight years, will shut at the end of this week
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NewsAndré Larson, founder director of the National Music Museum, has died aged 74
Larson was instrumental in founding the National Music Museum (then Shrine to Music Museum) in 1973 and retired as the collection's director in 2011
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NewsThe Juilliard School appoints violinist Wei He as artistic director of its Tianjin Juilliard campus
The new Tianjin Juilliard School, to be based in Tianjin, China, will open in 2019 and offer a US accredited master’s degree – the first for any performing arts institution in China
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NewsBradetich Foundation International Double Bass Solo Competition names 21 candidates
Taking place in September 2017, the contest offers a top prize worth more than $30,000
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NewsItalian luthier Luigi Lanaro has died aged 96
Based in Padua for most of his working life, Lanaro was notable for founding the first school of violin making in Mexico
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NewsFormer Berlin Philharmonic violinist Rainer Kussmaul has died aged 70
Kussmaul was also a sought-after violin professor, teaching at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where he specialised in Baroque violin
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NewsCroall, McEwen' Stradivarius violin sells for almost £2 million
1684 instrument sold for just under its upper guide price at Ingles & Hayday on 28 March 2017
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NewsBirmingham Conservatoire student attempts to set world record dressed in viola costume
Alistair Rutherford is to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for running the fastest half marathon dressed as a musical instrument
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NewsQueen Elisabeth Music Competition 2017 announces cello jury
This year's contest is the first to be dedicated to the cello - 70 candidates of 22 different nationalities will compete for a grand prize of €25,000 in three rounds in Brussels from 8 May to 3 June
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NewsLondon-based violin dealer J&A Beare acquires W.E. Hill & Sons
In addition to the Hill trademark Beare's has acquired the company's records, including sales ledgers and certificates, and the Hill accessories line
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NewsApplications now open for Tarisio Trust Young Artist Grants 2017
Online instrument and bow auction house Tarisio is offering five awards of $5,000 each for innovative string-based projects
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NewsThe Strad April 2017 issue is out now
Matthew McDonald, the Berlin Philharmonic's first principal bass, discusses the culture of creativity in the great German orchestra
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NewsViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter donates performance fee to refugee charities
Mutter's fee, along with those of conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, amounted to €60,000 and were gifted to two education bodies
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NewsQueen Elisabeth Music Competition 2017 names 70 cello candidates
The 21 women and 49 men of 22 different nationalities will compete for a grand prize of €25,000 in three rounds in Brussels from 8 May to 3 June 2017
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NewsMalta International Violin Making Competition 2017 names winners
Run by the Central Academy of Arts, the contest received 61 separate instrument and bow entries this year, while makers hailed from nine different countries
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NewsViolinist Nathan Meltzer, aged 16, wins Windsor Festival International String Competition
2017's youngest finalist, Meltzer wins a £5,000 cash award, a fine contemporary bow from Bishop Instruments and Bows, a solo recording on Champs Hill Records and performance opportunities
