All News articles – Page 23
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NewsTibor Junior International Violin Competition semi-finalists announced
Six violinists between the ages of 14 and 17 will compete in the second round on 22 August
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News‘Auer, Benvenuti’ Stradivari violin tokenised by digital asset company
A Digital Product Passport has been created with blockchain technology to preserve the violin’s unique provenance, which includes Leopold Auer and Joseph Benvenuti
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NewsSpanish cellist wins the Filón Prize for best Flamenco Instrumentalist
José ’El Marqués’ receives the €6,000 award at the International Cante de las Minas Festival, the first time the prize has ever been granted to a cellist in the festival’s history
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NewsEnsemble intercontemporain mourns violinist
Maryvonne Le Dizès was a member of the group since 1979 and was the first woman to win the Paganini Competition in 1962
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NewsNew string appointments at San Francisco Symphony
The new players join the first violin, cello and bass sections
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NewsTÁR cellist Sophie Kauer lands another film role
The cellist joins the cast of indie film All Five Eyes, which is currently filming in Kent, UK
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NewsBluegrass fiddler Bobby Hicks dies at age 91
A legendary figure in Bluegrass and country music, the fiddle master Bobby Hicks died at his home in western North Carolina from complications of heart disease at the age of 91.
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NewsCellist Camille Thomas signs with Keynote Artist Management
The Franco-Belgian cellist joins the roster for general management
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NewsAustralian principal violist John Dean has died, aged 90
John Dean was the longest-serving principal viola in the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra’s history from 1970 to 1989
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NewsViolin maker Ansaldo Poggi to be celebrated in new exhibition
One of the most highly regarded Italian luthiers of the 20th century, he was an apprentice of Giuseppe Fiorini
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra announces new cello appointment
Spanish cellist Salvador Bolón has joined the British orchestra
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NewsThe violin and cello winners of the Accordi Musicali Academy International Competitions
Chinese violinist Zhiyuan Qian and New Zealand-German cellist Matthias Balzat won their respective categories, receiving €5,000 each
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NewsWinners announced for the 2024 Kreutzer International Music Competition
South Korean violinist Jieun Son wins the €1,000 first prize in the senior solo violin category
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NewsViolinist retires from Pittsburgh Symphony after 36 years
First violinist Christopher Wu joined the orchestra in 1988
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News‘A band needed a cellist. It saved my life’ – Holocaust survivor and cellist meets Auschwitz director’s son in new documentary
Holocaust survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch meets Auschwitz director Rudolf Höss’s son in the new documentary The Commandant’s Shadow
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NewsCellist Gautier Capuçon runs a marathon at the Paris 2024 Olympics
The ‘Marathon Pour Tous’ was run by more than 20,000 members of the public and followed the same route as the Olympics marathon
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NewsPaul McCartney discovery refreshes search for 46-year-missing double bass
UK principal bassist Nic Worters is spreading the word once again about his missing bass that was stolen in 1978
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NewsCellist activist arrested for playing Bach in Citibank protest
John Mark Rozendaal faces up to seven years in prison for playing solo Bach in a performance entitled ‘A Plea for Our Future’ outside the fossil fuel financier’s New York City headquarters
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NewsJean-Guihen Queyras to perform in Ukraine in an act of hope and solidarity
The cellist will perform with the Kyiv Camerata, as well as visit a rehabilitation centre for wounded soldiers and a clinic for children suffering from war trauma
