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Violinist Miri Ben-Ari to play at Martin Luther King memorial
Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari will perform at this Sunday's dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC. The US-resident Ben-Ari, who has become known for her hip-hop violin style, is the only non-African-American artist performing at the dedication ceremony, which will also feature addresses by civil rights ...
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Violins stolen from ex-BBC Symphony Orchestra player Keith Gurry
Former BBC Symphony Orchestra violinist Keith Gurry is appealing for any information leading to the safe recovery of two violins and four bows that were stolen from his East London home. The stolen violins are by Francesco Guadagnini (Turin, 1888) and Ian Highfield (Birmingham, 1982). Also missing are a ...
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Lorin Maazel to sell 1783 Guadagnini violin at auction
A 1783 Guadagnini violin owned by Lorin Maazel will feature in Tarisio's 10 November sale in New York. The 81-year-old conductor and violinist has had the instrument since he was 15 years old. Tarisio has placed an estimate of $800,000–$1,200,000 on the violin, and proceeds from the sale will support ...
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Pavel Haas Quartet's Dvorák disc wins record of the year at Gramophone Awards
The Pavel Haas Quartet won the Chamber category and the recording of the year at the 2011 Gramophone Awards. The Czech ensemble won for its Supraphon disc of Dvo?ák's op.96 and op.106 quartets. There were no awards for string soloists this year.
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Newspaper readers pledge to buy cello for four-year-old cellist
A four-year-old boy from north London, whose cello lessons and instrument loan were cut by his local children's centre, has received more than £500 in donations towards getting his own cello. Ham&High readers pledged the money after reading Jahleel Weiser's story in the newspaper. The four-year-old from Highgate started ...
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Kelemen and Zaïde quartets share first prize in Beijing contest
The Kelemen Quartet, from Hungary, and the Zaïde Quartet, from France, shared the top prize at the Beijing International Music Competition. Each quartet received $15,000. The Quiroga Quartet from Spain won third prize, with no second prize being awarded.
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Beethoven quartet movement receives premiere in Manchester
A lost Beethoven quartet movement is receiving its premiere in Manchester tomorrow, after a British academic pieced it together from fragments. Beethoven wrote the slow movement for his op.18 no.2 quartet in 1799 but discarded it in favour of a revised version. The original movement has not survived, but Barry ...
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German violinist Christian Tetzlaff signs to Ondine
Christian Tetzlaff has signed a long-term recording deal with Finnish label Ondine. The German violinist's first recording with the label will feature concertos by Mendelssohn and Schumann with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi. The disc is set for release in November. Further releases in autumn 2012 ...
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Philadelphia Orchestra plans to help China nurture orchestral musicians
The Philadelphia Orchestra has signed an agreement with Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts to start a cultural exchange programme. The partnership aims to help find and nurture the next generation of Chinese orchestral musicians. Other plans involve performances by the orchestra in Beijing and other Chinese cities, ...
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American Erin Keefe, 31, takes Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster chair
Erin Keefe has been appointed concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra. The 31-year-old American succeeds Jorja Fleezanis, who left the orchestra in 2009. Keefe studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, and her teachers included Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, Philipp ...
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Artists, academics urge London Philharmonic Orchestra to reconsider suspension of four string players
Groups of artists and academics have written separate letters to The Telegraph and The Guardian urging the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) to reinstate the four musicians it suspended after they signed a letter calling for the BBC to cancel an Israel Philharmonic concert. Figures including film directors ...
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Violin case deemed offensive weapon by Edinburgh police
A violin case, a pizza shovel, a quill pen, a potato peeler and a pool ball in a sock are among hundreds of unusual items that police in Edinburgh have confiscated since 2009. The items were either used in attacks or deemed offensive weapons. Police seized the pizza shovel ...
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Spanish violinist Ana María Valderrama wins Sarasate contest
Ana María Valderrama has won the €10,000 first prize at the Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition in Pamplona, Spain. The 26-year-old Spaniard is a masters student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, where she studies with Antje Weithaas.Second prize went to Ji Yoon Lee, 19, from South ...
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Chicago Lyric Opera violist Keith Abbott Conant dies at the age of 49
Keith Abbott Conant, the principal violist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra has died of a heart attack at the age of 49. He had been a member of the orchestra since 1987, and its principal violist since 1997. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Conant studied viola ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein receives $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship
Alisa Weilerstein will receive $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years after being named as a MacArthur Fellow. The 29-year-old cellist was awarded the so-called 'genius' grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Weilerstein was one of 22 individuals chosen as 2011 MacArthur Fellows. ...
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Violin pupils set world record for mass violin playing in Taiwan
A total of 4,645 children from Changhua county in central Taiwan played their violins together in a stadium on Sunday 18 September. The event, which was witnessed by a Guinness World Records official, set a new world record for mass violin playing. The previous record was set in London in ...
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Rodolfo Lipizer Competition win for violinist Stefan Tarara
Stefan Tarara has won first prize at the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy. The 25-year-old German, who studies with Zakhar Bron at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim, received €12,000. Second prize was shared between 24-year-old Ermir Abeshi, from Albania, and Maria Milchtein, 25, ...
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London Philharmonic Orchestra suspends cellist and violinists
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has suspended four of its musicians for up to nine months after they signed a letter calling on the BBC to cancel a Proms concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Cellist Sue Sutherley and violinists Tom Eisner, Nancy Elan and Sarah Streatfeild were among ...
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Cellist David Finckel to co-direct new Korea festival
Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han will direct a new festival in South Korea this December. Chamber Music Today will feature performances by the Emerson Quartet, the Jupiter Quartet, and a trio comprising Finckel, Han and violinist Philip Setzer. The venue for the festival's three main concerts is the ...
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Belarusian cellist Aleksei Kiseliov joins Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has appointed 26-year-old Aleksei Kiseliov as its principal cello. The Belarusian musician studied with Raphael Wallfisch at the Royal College of Music in London, and with Natalie Clein at Trinity Laban.
