All News articles – Page 17
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NewsWinners announced at the 2024 Klein International String Competition
20-year-old violist Pearl de la Motte won the grand prize of $5,000, plus a host of performance opportunities
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NewsDmytro Udovychenko wins the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition
The Ukrainian violinist scooped first prize of €25,000, concert engagements and loan of a Stradivari violin, in a final round full of performances from many familiar faces in today’s violin competition circuit
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NewsThe Juilliard School announces its new graduate resident quartet
Championing the music of lesser-known women composers, the Katarina Quartet will enjoy a two-year residency from September 2024
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NewsObituary: Hungarian violinist-violist György Konrád
The founding member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra was 99
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NewsCompetitors announced for 2024 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition
24 violin contestants will have the chance to compete in this year’s competition in September
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NewsConcert Artists Guild and Young Classical Artists Trust announce 2024 season Grand Prize winners
2024 Sphinx Competition winner Nathan Amaral and pianist Amiri Harewood will join the rosters of both organisations, and will enjoy tailored artist management and career development opportunities
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NewsViolinist Mikhail Pochekin signs with Conciertos Augusto
Pochekin joins the roster for representation in Spain
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NewsO Live Music, Where Art Thou? Musicians protest against Northern Ballet’s plans to replace orchestra with recordings
50 protesters dressed as William Shakespeare marched against Northern Ballet’s plans to axe musicians’ jobs from June, ahead of a performance of Romeo and Juliet at London’s Sadler’s Wells
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NewsNYO launches project to unite musical teenagers
As One celebrates ten years of NYO Inspire, which provides musical opportunities to underserved young people at a time when music education provision is declining
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NewsA conductor’s baton sends Pavel Šporcl’s blue violin flying mid-concerto
Watch the heart-stopping moment when Pavel Šporcl’s signature blue violin drops from his hands during a concert
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn takes up role at London’s Royal Academy of Music
The US violinist will assume the role of visiting professor from September 2024
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NewsViolinist announced as director of chamber music at Peabody Conservatory
Violinist of the Cavani Quartet Annie Fullard will take on the role of director of Chamber Music and Sidney M. Friedberg chair of chamber music from autumn 2024
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NewsUnique wax cylinder recordings by Paganini’s only pupil identified
Previously attributed to August Wilhelmj, Camillo Sivori is now believed to have made the recordings, which include his unpublished second Violin Concerto
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NewsCellist Sol Gabetta wins the Swiss Grand Prix de musique
The Argentinian cellist receives CHF100,000 in recognition for her contribution to music in Switzerland
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NewsMET concertmaster David Chan takes up conducting role with the Apollo Orchestra
Chan continues to accept more conducting posts, having been named director of Credo National Festival earlier this year
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NewsGuitarist appointed as RCM’s new head of strings
Gary Ryan takes on the role at London’s Royal College of Music, describing it as ‘a tremendous honour’
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NewsCellist Alexis Lee joins the Georgia State University School of Music
The cellist assumes the role of artist affiliate in cello
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NewsUS violinist Robert McDuffie awarded honorary doctorate from Emory University
The violinist received the award in a ceremony on 13 May
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NewsBoston Symphony Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Violinist Nathan Cole will depart the Los Angeles Philharmonic to assume the new role from July 2024
