All News articles – Page 236
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Cellists Christine Lamprea and Lev Mamuya win 2013 Sphinx Competition
Cellist Christine Lamprea, 22, has won first prize in the senior division of the Sphinx Competition in Detroit for young Black and Latino string players. Lamprea, who studies with Natasha Brofsky at the New England Conservatory in Boston, received $10,000. Second prize went to violist Dana Kelley, also 22. Double ...
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ArticleCellist to take Qatar role. Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, High Fives and Handshakes all round
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ArticleLicence woes thwart radio gig
BBC broadcasts interview but no performance by twelve-year-old violinist
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ArticleSmetana Quartet cellist dies
Antonín Kohout founded great ensemble and guided the next generation of Czech quartets
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Chetham's violin teacher Wen Zhou Li arrested
A violin teacher at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has been arrested today on suspicion of rape. Wen Zhou Li, 57, who has taught at both institutions since 1996, is one of at least six current or former music teachers being investigated ...
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Viola player Kim Kashkashian wins Grammy award for recording of Kurtág and Ligeti
Kim Kashkashian won the award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo at the 2013 Grammy awards. The viola player received the honour on 10 February for her recording Kurtág & Ligeti: Music for Viola, which pairs György Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages with György Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Viola. The ...
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UK violinist Thomas Gould does a Joshua Bell busk
British violinist Thomas Gould went busking at Westminster Tube station on Wednesday, in a recreation of the famous Joshua Bell subway experiment that was arranged by the Washington Post in 2007. Gould, the concertmaster of the Aurora Orchestra and the associate concertmaster of the Britten Sinfonia, recreated the stunt for ...
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ArticleTop cellist Alban Gerhardt calls airport security staff ‘brutal and careless' after bow is damaged
Alban Gerhardt slams behaviour of officials at Dulles International Airport
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ArticleCampaigners welcome GCSE rethink
New performance measure of GCSEs in England will include creative subjects
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ArticleString soloists in Bach marathon
Viktoria Mullova and Alban Gerhardt star in nine-hour Royal Albert Hall event
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma wins $100,000 award
Cellist receives contemporary music prize from Vilcek Foundation
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Violin meets subatomic particles in Cloud Chamber duet
The worlds of string playing and particle physics are set to come together in an unusual performance at Plymouth University in the UK on 11 February. Alexis Kirke's new work, Cloud Chamber, combines a semi-improvisational score for solo violin with the synthesized sounds of subatomic particles. The performance will ...
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Violinist and University of North Carolina teacher Richard Luby dies
US violin professor Richard Luby has died at the age of 68. For more than three decades he taught at the University of North Carolina (UNC), serving as assistant chairman of the music department, associate chair for performance, and co-artistic director of the pre-professional orchestra MYCO, based at the university’s ...
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UK violinist Andrew Haveron to join Sydney Symphony as concertmaster
Andrew Haveron has been appointed co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony. Currently joint concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Haveron will take up his new position this May, joining Dene Olding as co-leader. The London-born Haveron was concertmaster at the BBC Symphony Orchestra before taking the leader's chair at ...
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Cellist Truls Mørk wins Sibelius Prize in Oslo
Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk was presented with the 2010 Sibelius Prize at his first concert in his home country for two years. The NOK100,000 (£11,000) award from the Sibelius Foundation recognises musicians who have made a major contribution to promoting links between Finnish and Norwegian musical life. Previous winners include ...
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Article1741 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin is sold to anonymous buyer
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has been granted exclusive lifetime use of the 1741 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri 'del Gesù' following its recent purchase by an anonymous buyer. The violin was sold by London dealers J.&.A. Beare for an undisclosed sum, although Beares confirmed that the price exceeded the ...
