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Atos Trio wins Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship

2012-02-08T00:00:00Z

The UK's Borletti-Buitoni Trust has awarded a £15,000 special ensemble fellowship to the Atos Trio. The German ensemble comprises violinist Annette von Hehn, cellist Stefan Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe. The Trust has also given fellowships worth £12,000 each to German cellist Maximilian Hornung and the violin–piano duo of ...

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Austrian cellist Kian Soltani wins Antonio Janigro Competition

2012-02-06T00:00:00Z

Kian Soltani won first prize at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old Austrian, who studies with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Music Academy, received HRK 60,000 (£6,500). Joon Ho Shim of South Korea took second prize. Third prize went to Polish cellist Tomasz Daroch.

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Fiddler Rona Wilkie is crowned BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012

2012-02-06T00:00:00Z

Fiddle player Rona Wilkie, 22, from Oban, has won the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012 competition. She beat five other competitiors in the grand final at Glasgow's City Halls. Wilkie wins a recording session with BBC Scotland, a performance at the Scots Trad Music Awards and a year's ...

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra offers free webcasts

2012-01-31T00:00:00Z

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has launched a high-definition webcast player allowing users to view a series of concerts for free. According to an Associated Press report, the orchestra said that it is the first US orchestra to offer a series of free webcasts. The new webcast player mimics ...

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Cleveland Institute of Music appoints Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty to faculty

2012-01-31T00:00:00Z

Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty will join the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in autumn 2012. Zenaty, who studied with Josef Suk and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic in 1983, has taught for the past 15 years at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber ...

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Hallé orchestra to perform Bernstein musical Wonderful Town

2012-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five members of the Manchester-based Hallé orchestra will perform for a new production of Bernstein's Wonderful Town, forming what the show's producers are calling one of the biggest orchestras ever used for a musical. Mark Elder will conduct the orchestra for 16 performances at the Lowry in Salford between ...

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Violinist Alexander Velinzon appointed Seattle Symphony concertmaster

2012-01-27T00:00:00Z

Alexander Velinzon has been appointed concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony. The Russian-born violinist has been assistant concertmaster of Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2005. He will start his new role in June of this year. Velinzon succeeds Maria Larionoff, who stepped down at the end of the 2010–11 season. Born ...

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Chicago violin shop owner sues online critic

2012-01-25T00:00:00Z

Chunyee Lu, a restorer and dealer in Chicago, has launched a libel lawsuit against an online writer who posted critical comments about his Guadagnini Violin Shop on reviews websites. According to Lu's lawyer, the writer posted under various names, but all the messages have been traced to the same IP ...

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Croatian duo 2Cellos to play on US TV show Glee

2012-01-25T00:00:00Z

2Cellos, the young Croatian duo and cover stars of The Strad's January issue, will appear on the hit Fox TV show Glee on 31 January in the US. Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser will perform 'Smooth Criminal', the track that made them YouTube sensations, in a special Michael Jackson tribute ...

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Stradivari cello once owned by Bernard Greenhouse nets record sum at auction

2012-01-23T00:00:00Z

A 1707 Stradivari cello that was owned by Bernard Greenhouse for half a century has been sold by sealed bid for a record price. According to the New York Times, the 'Countess of Stanlein' cello was bought by a Montreal arts patron for in excess of $6m. Christopher Reuning, the ...

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Juilliard's historical performance programme receives $20m gift

2012-01-23T00:00:00Z

The Juilliard School's graduate-level historical performance programme has been endowed to the tune of $20m with a gift from the school's board chairman, Bruce Kovner. The programme, which began in 2009 and focuses on music from the 17th and 18th centuries, offers tuition-free training for student violinists, cellists, double ...

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US debut for Menuhin Violin Competition

2012-01-20T00:00:00Z

The Menuhin Competition, the two-yearly international contest for violinists under the age of 22, will be staged in the US for the first time in 2014. It will be hosted by the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. The number of American participants at ...

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Violist Matthew Lipman wins Minneapolis Young Artist Competition

2012-01-18T00:00:00Z

Violist Matthew Lipman won the $7,500 first prize and the $1,000 grand prize at the  WAMSO Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association's Young Artist Competition in Minneapolis, US. Lipman, 19, studies with Heidi Castleman at the Juilliard School of Music. Second prize went to cellist Hans Goldstein, 23. Violist ...

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Violin pedagogue Jaroslav Vanecek dies aged 91

2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Jaroslav Vanecek, the Czech-born violin and viola pedagogue, has died at the age of 91. His career teaching in the UK and Ireland spanned seven decades, from 1949 until 2001.   Born in Bratislava in 1920, Vanecek studied at the National Conservatoire in Prague, where his violin tutors included ...

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Violinist Sarah Streatfeild launches legal claim against London Philharmonic Orchestra

2012-01-16T00:00:00Z

Violinist Sarah Streatfeild, one of four string players suspended by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), is taking a claim for discrimination on the grounds of belief to an employment tribunal, reports the Guardian. Streatfeild, along with violinists Tom Eisner and Nancy Elan, and cellist Sue Sutherley, was suspended ...

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Carnegie Hall announces youth orchestra

2012-01-13T00:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute will launch a National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) in 2013. Around 120 instrumentalists will get the chance to work with principals from top US orchestras during a two-week residency at Purchase College, State University of New York. The orchestra will ...

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Double bassist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio dies at 55

2012-01-11T00:00:00Z

Stefano Scodanibbio, the double bass player and composer, died on 8 January at the age of 55. A tireless champion both of new music and of the double bass as a solo instrument, he was well known for his collaborations with composer Terry Riley. Born in Macerata, Italy, in ...

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PayPal blamed for destruction of $2,500 violin

2012-01-09T00:00:00Z

An online seller has claimed that the money-handling company PayPal ordered the destruction of a $2,500 French violin that she sold to a buyer in Canada. The seller, known as Erica, told the website regretsy.com that the buyer had disputed the violin's Maurice Bourguignon label, and said that because PayPal ...

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Musician seeks London Underground orchestra

2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

A musician has set himself the challenge of forming a full symphony orchestra from strangers he meets on the London Underground. Shaun Buswell, who cannot read music, will then compose a work for the orchestra to perform at one of twelve top London venues on 12 December 2012. The 12.12.12 ...

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Hollywood violinist Israel Baker dies aged 92

2012-01-06T00:00:00Z

Violinist Israel Baker, a leading soloist in Los Angeles in the 1960s, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92. Born in Chicago, Baker got his first concertmaster post with the Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic. A year later he was hired by Stokowski to join the All-American Youth Orchestra, and ...