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    Stolen cello found outside San Francisco opera house

    2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

    A cello that was stolen from San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Sunday has been returned to its student owner, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Bubenreuth cello, worth around $10,000, was left outside the city's opera house just before midnight on Tuesday. No arrests have so far been ...

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    Couple caught on CCTV fleeing San Francisco Conservatory with cello

    2012-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Police in San Francisco have released video footage of a man and woman they want to trace in connection with the theft of a cello from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, reports KTVU. The well-dressed couple, who investigators have dubbed 'Bonnie and Clyde', were seen entering the conservatoire, checking ...

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    Students observe Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in fashion makeover project

    2012-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the New York-based Parsons The New School for Design have launched a pilot scheme to redesign concert attire for orchestral musicians. Sixteen Parsons students will work on the project this autumn, observing BSO players as they perform, and designing prototypes of concert clothing ...

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    Violinists Wang Xiao and Aleksandra Kuls win Joseph Szigeti competition

    2012-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The first prize at the Joseph Szigeti International Violin and Viola Competition in Budapest was shared by violinists Wang Xiao and Aleksandra Kuls. Wang, 25, from China, studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Lucie Robert. Kuls, 21, from Poland, is a student of Kaja Danczowska at the ...

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    Veriko Tchumburidze and Noah Lee win Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians

    2012-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Sixteen-year-old Veriko Tchumburidze from Georgia/Turkey won first prize in the violin division of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Montreux and Vevey, Switzerland. Noah Lee, 12, took first prize in the cello division. Tchumburidze and Lee each received €3,000.

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    Armida Quartet takes top prize in Munich ARD Competition

    2012-09-16T00:00:00Z

    The Armida Quartet won first prize in the string quartet division of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. The German ensemble received €24,000 and also won the audience prize. The Novus Quartet from South Korea took second prize. Third prize went to the Calidore Quartet from the US and ...

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    Israeli cellist Amit Peled to play Casals's Gofriller cello

    2012-09-13T00:00:00Z

    The Israeli cellist Amit Peled has been given use of Pablo Casals's c.1700 Matteo Gofriller. Peled played for Casals's widow, Marta Casals Istomin, over the summer, and has now received the Gofriller from her and the Casals Foundation. Casals acquired the Gofriller in 1913. Other cellists to have played ...

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    Lumiere Quartet wins Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano

    2012-09-12T00:00:00Z

    The Lumiere Quartet won first prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano, Switzerland, which this year was for chamber music ensembles. The quartet, whose members come from France, Australia and the Ukraine, received €12,000. Second prize was shared between the Catalyst Quartet, from the US, and ...

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    Toronto International Film Festival hosts world premiere of A Late Quartet

    2012-09-10T00:00:00Z

    A film about a fictional New York string quartet had its world premiere last night at the Toronto International Film Festival. A Late Quartet, directed by Yaron Zilberman, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir as members of an ensemble that is thrown into crisis ...

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    Johannes Brahms Competition announces winners

    2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The Aris Quartet, from Germany, and the German–Russian duo of cellist Daniel Wachsmuth and pianist Ludmilla Kogan shared first prize in the chamber music division of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. First prize in the violin category went to Petr Matejak, 24, from the Czech Republic. Seventeen-year-old ...

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    YouTube cello star Steven Sharp Nelson to release album with Sony

    2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The Piano Guys, a Utah group featuring cellist Steven Sharp Nelson and pianist Jon Schmidt, have signed to Sony Masterworks on the back of their YouTube success. Their YouTube channel has amassed more than 750,000 subscribers, and their music videos – which usually fuse pop songs and classical influences – ...

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    Violinist Levon Chilingirian to teach at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama

    2012-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Levon Chilingirian has left the Royal College of Music (RCM) to join the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as professor of violin. The 64-year-old violinist studied at the RCM after moving to London at the age of 12. In 1971 he co-founded the Chilingirian Quartet, which has been quartet ...

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    Violist Piero Farulli, founder of the Fiesole School of Music, dies aged 92

    2012-09-03T00:00:00Z

    The violist Piero Farulli, who played in the Quartetto Italiano for 30 years, has died in Mugello at the age of 92. Born in Florence in 1920, he joined the Quartetto Italiano – then called the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano – in 1947, replacing Lionello Forzanti, who co-founded the group ...

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    US cellist Matthew Allen wins Carlos Prieto competition

    2012-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Matthew Allen has won first prize in the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition in Morelia, Mexico. Allen, 20, who studies with Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music, received $10,000. Second prize was shared between Georgi Anichenko, 27, from Belarus and Arnold Choi, also 27, from Canada. No third ...

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    Violist Louise Lansdown named head of strings at Birmingham Conservatoire

    2012-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Louise Lansdown has joined Birmingham Conservatoire as its new head of strings. She has been a full-time viola and chamber music tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester since 2001. She is also director of chamber music at Pro Corda, the international chamber music academy at Leiston ...

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    Latvian Vineta Sareika replaces Natalia Prishepenko as Artemis Quartet first violinist

    2012-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has announced a change of personnel ahead of its 2012–13 season. First violinist Natalia Prishepenko is leaving the group after 18 years to focus on other musical activities and her family. Her replacement is Vineta Sareika, a Latvian violinist who was a prize winner at the ...

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    Russian cellist Alexey Stadler wins Tonali Grand Prix

    2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Russian cellist Alexey Stadler, 21, won first prize at this year's Tonali Grand Prix in Hamburg, Germany. Stadler, who studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, received €10,000. The Tonali Grand Prix is an annual competition that alternates between violinists, cellists and ...

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    Man who stole violins from Glinka Museum is detained after second robbery

    2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Moscow police have arrested a convicted thief who once stole a Stradivari violin on suspicion of stealing £80,000 in cash and valuables from a city apartment. Jakob Subbota, 43, a Chechen native, was convicted in 1998 of stealing a Stradivari violin and a Stainer violin from the Glinka Museum ...

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    Lost Persichetti violin sonata set for debut

    2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

    A sonata for violin and piano by American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) is to have its world premiere this September. The 1941 work was discovered by University of Utah violin professor Hasse Borup in the archives of the New York Public Library (NYPL) in 2010. The handwritten score was ...

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    German customs seize violinist Yuzuko Horigome's Guarneri 'del Gesù'

    2012-08-22T00:00:00Z

    A Japanese violinist whose 1741 Guarneri 'del Gesù' was seized by customs authorities in Germany has been told she must pay €380,000 (£300,000) to get it back, reports AFP. Yuzuko Horigome, who is based in Belgium, was flying home last week from Japan via Frankfurt ...