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ArticleRoyal Philharmonic Society honours Buskaid and Sphinx founders
The UK's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has awarded honorary memberships to Buskaid founder Rosemary Nalden and Aaron Dworkin, the founder of the Sphinx Organisation. British violist Nalden (pictured) founded Buskaid in 1992 to raise money for a string project in South Africa. Since 1999 she has ...
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ArticleVeteran US concertmaster William Steck dies at 79
US violinist William Steck has died at the age of 79. A veteran of the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas Symphony and Atlanta Symphony orchestras, he was best known as concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington DC, which he led from 1982 to 2001. Born in ...
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ArticleTitanic bandleader's letter sells for £93,000 at auction
A letter written by Titanic violinist and bandleader Wallace Hartley has been sold for £93,000. Hartley wrote the letter on board the Titanic just days before the liner's maiden voyage ended in tragedy in the North Atlantic on 14 April 1912. The letter, addressed to Hartley's ...
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ArticleLong-serving LA Philharmonic bassist Richard D. Kelley dies at the age of 76
US double bassist Richard D. Kelley, who performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 50 years, died on 16 April at the age of 76. He had joined the orchestra in 1956 aged 19, when Eduard van Beinum was its music director. During his 57-year ...
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ArticleBBC Proms programme highlights star string soloists but just one quartet
Violin concertos will be well represented at the 2013 BBC Proms, although string quartets and trios are almost absent from this year’s programme. Despite a series of chamber music and Saturday lunchtime concerts set for Cadogan Hall during the Proms period, the only quartet to be performing ...
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ArticleIU Jacobs School of Music appoints Joseph Swensen to violin faculty
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Joseph Swensen as visiting professor of violin. The New Jersey-born violinist, composer and conductor will start his position in the autumn of 2013. Swensen is currently conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO). He was the ...
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ArticleTitanic bandleader Wallace Hartley's letter goes up for auction
A letter written by Titanic violinist and bandleader Wallace Hartley aboard the doomed ship is set to be sold on 20 April at an auction in Wiltshire, UK. The letter, which Hartley wrote to his parents four days before the disaster, is being sold by Henry ...
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ArticleInfluential French-Canadian violin pedagogue Jean Cousineau dies at the age of 75
The French-Canadian violinist, pedagogue and composer Jean Cousineau has died in Montreal at the age of 75. He was hailed by Shin'ichi Suzuki as the most important violin teacher in North America for his influential work with early learners, and the Montreal academy that he established has ...
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ArticleElias and Heath quartets feature among nominees for UK's RPS Music Awards
The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has unveiled the shortlist for its annual music awards. The awards are among the most prestigious given for live classical music-making in the UK. The Elias Quartet (pictured) and Sheffield-based promoter Music in the Round are both shortlisted in the Chamber ...
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ArticleCanadian violinist Andrew Dawes receives Governor General's lifetime achievement award
Canadian violinist Andrew Dawes is to receive a lifetime achievement award as part of the 2013 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. Dawes, 73, is one of six award-winners, each of whom will receive C$25,000. Dawes is best known as first violinist of the Orford Quartet, with ...
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ArticleLast-minute deal between St Paul Chamber Orchestra musicians and management is set to end lock-out
The six-month lock-out of St Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) musicians may be about to end after the players reached a tentative deal with SPCO management yesterday. The musicians must now vote to accept the agreement, which calls for their annual pay to be cut by $15,000 ...
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma takes centre stage on Arts Advocacy Day in the US
The cellist and arts education campaigner Yo-Yo Ma played a leading role in Arts Advocacy Day in the US on Monday. The highlight of the day, which was sponsored by Americans for the Arts, the national arts advocacy organisation, was a lecture given by Ma in Washington DC's ...
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ArticleIvry Gitlis, movie star: Legendary violinist back on screen at the age of 90 in new French comedy
The great violinist Ivry Gitlis stars in a new film that opens in French cinemas tomorrow. In the Danièle Thompson-directed 'Des gens qui s'embrassent' (People Kissing), Gitlis plays Aron (pictured), the patriarch of a Jewish family that comes together for a funeral and a wedding. Comedic tensions ...
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ArticleBrothers Amati viola is returned to Italian soloist after legal tussle over ownership
The Italian soloist and conductor Luigi Alberto Bianchi has been confirmed as the owner of a 1595 Brothers Amati viola following a lengthy legal dispute with an insurance company, reports L'Inviato. The viola (pictured), which was commissioned for the Medici family, is known as the ...
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ArticleNew York dealer sued over alleged loss of $400,000 Pressenda violin
A violinist has launched a legal claim against a New York dealer who she alleges lost her violin while it was on consignment – by giving it out for trial to someone who never returned. A lawsuit was filed on 26 March against dealer Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt ...
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ArticleAmsterdam's Rijksmuseum to reopen after renovation with new room devoted to music
Violas da gamba feature in special music room following museum's renovation
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ArticleSydney Symphony Orchestra cancels tour of Europe over eurozone crisis
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has had to shelve a European tour planned for this November. The orchestra (pictured) was to have visited Germany, Russia and Armenia with principal conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who will be replaced next year by David Robertson. The SSO's managing director Rory ...
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ArticleSwift conclusion to SF Symphony strike as musicians return to work
The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony have agreed to return to the concert stage after reaching an agreement with the management over a new contract. Although the agreement is subject to the approval of the orchestra’s board of governors and of all 103 of its players, ...
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ArticleFind out about the extra content hidden in The Strad's digital edition, out now
You can now download every issue of The Strad for the past two years on to your iPad, smartphone, PC, Mac or tablet computer. Since January we have been adding extra content to some of the features and regulars in each issue. Here’s a summary of the ...
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Award for folk fiddler and singer Eliza Carthy
The English folk fiddler and singer-songwriter Eliza Carthy has received a £50,000 award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF), one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK. Carthy was one of three composers named as recipients of the PHF's 2012 Awards for Artists. Five visual artists also ...
