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Australian Quartet's first violin and viola quit
The Australian Quartet (ASQ) will lose two of its members this year. First violinist Sophie Rowell and violist Sally Boud will step down following the quartet’s performances at the Huntington Estate Music Festival in late November. The quartet’s management has begun an international search to fill the posts ready ...
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31 players receive instruments from German instrument fund
The German Musical Instruments Fund has awarded 31 young German string players with loans of instruments from its 180-strong collection. The 18 violins, 4 violas and 9 cellos went to performers in the fund's competition, which this year was held in Hamburg. Among the highest-scoring participants in the competition ...
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ArticleGlenn Dicterow to teach at MAW
NY Phil concertmaster to join Music Academy of the West faculty in 2014
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ArticleNew contract agreed in Louisville
Louisville Orchestra management and musicians reach three-year agreement
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Louisville Orchestra management and musicians agree three-year contract
The Louisville Orchestra has signed a three-year contract with its musicians. The new contract succeeds a one-year bridge agreement that ended the orchestra's 11-month labour dispute last April. The bridge agreement called for a 30-week season, down from 37 weeks in the 2010–11 season. The new contract keeps the ...
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Japanese–American violinist Mayumi Kanagawa wins Heifetz Competition in Vilnius
Japanese–American Mayumi Kanagawa (left) won the €6,000 first prize at the Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 18-year-old is a graduate of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. She was first-prize winner of the 2011 Irving M. Klein Competition in San ...
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ArticleBetts copy joins national collection
Violin made at Oberlin violin makers workshop is added to Library of Congress collection
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ArticleStolen Stradivari ‘recovered'
Bulgarian police may have tracked down the 1696 violin taken in 2010
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Indiana University Jacobs School of Music recruits Grigory Kalinovsky
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Grigory Kalinovsky to its string department. The violinist is set to join the Bloomington school as a professor of music in autumn 2013. Kalinovsky began violin studies in his native St Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova, and later trained at the ...
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ArticleIU recruits Grigory Kalinovsky
St Petersburg-born violinist to join IU Jacobs School of Music this autumn
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US national youth orchestra to contain 80 string musicians
Eighty string players from across the US have been chosen to be part of the inaugural National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO–USA). The ensemble, which comprises 120 musicians in total, will include 40 violins, 16 violas, 14 cellos and 10 double basses. They will come together ...
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ArticleBulgarian police may have tracked down 1696 Stradivari violin stolen in 2010
Police in Bulgaria believe they have recovered the 1696 Stradivari violin (left) that was stolen from a London sandwich bar in 2010. Undercover detectives in Sofia were offered a Stradivari for £250,000 in a sting operation on Hristo Varbanov, a Roma mafia crime boss. The instrument, ...
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13-year-old violinist Lara Boschkor wins Szeryng competition in Mexico
Lara Boschkor has won first prize in the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Toluca City, Mexico. The 13-year-old German, who is a student of Susanna Yoko Henkel at the University of Music and Dance, Cologne, received MXN350,000 (£18,000). Second prize went to Igor Pikaysen, 25, from Russia. British ...
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ArticleDouble blow for cellist
Airport security check that resulted in broken bow also damaged Alban Gerhardt's cello
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New York Philharmonic expands online digital archives with sheet music
The New York Philharmonic has added a large tranche of material to its digital archives, completing a three-year project to digitise orchestral parts, programmes and other documents dating from 1943 to 1970. The new material comprises more than 520,000 pages of marked instrument parts, encompassing nearly 1,200 works by ...
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ArticleViolin teacher gives $7m to school
USC Thornton School of Music receives gift from longtime professor
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ArticleSPCO violinist to join NY Phil
Principal Kyu-Young Kim quits locked-out St Paul Chamber Orchestra
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ArticleRNCM head of strings quits
Malcolm Layfield's position 'untenable' amid sexual misconduct allegations
