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Violin smashed in a horror bus-bicycle collision undergoes a miracle repair
Violinist Dan Hodd was hit by a bus while cycling with his violin on his back in December 2022, resulting in a leg amputation, and the instrument in over 100 pieces
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Cellist Luka Coetzee signs with Sheldon Artists
The 19-year-old Canadian cellist joins the agency for exclusive worldwide representation
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24-hour concert to set a new Guinness World Record with only female and non-binary composers
‘Let HER MUSIC Play’ is an initiative by the Donne Foundation, striving for gender equality in music
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A video gamer is beating Elden Ring with a violin
As if Elden Ring wasn’t hard enough, Twitch streamer TiavioliGaming is playing through one of the most challenging games of recent times armed with an electric violin and an intricate gaming set-up
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Violinist Eugene Drucker announced as Berkshire Bach Society artistic director
The founding member of the Emerson String Quartet takes on the role following the quartet’s 2023 dissolution
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Violinist Hilary Hahn awarded $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
The violinist receives the award for outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in classical music
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Attacca Quartet signs with MKI Artists
The US ensemble joins the agency for North American representation
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Violinist and conductor Philippe Arrii-Blachette has died
The contemporary music specialist was director of the Sillages Ensemble, various conservatoires and additionally worked in television and radio
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Finnish violinist Tuomo Haapanen dies, aged 99
Haapanen was a former professor and principal at the Sibelius Academy, as well as chairman of the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition from 1981 to 2001
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YCAT applications are now open for 2024
Successful artists will receive performance opportunities, bespoke management and career support during YCAT’s 40th anniversary year
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The Continuo Foundation invites applications for seventh round of grants
£100,000 in grants will be awarded for early music tours and artistic projects in the UK between April and October 2024
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Violin maker Tschu Ho Lee has died
Lee was the first teacher and former director of the Chicago School of Violin Making
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New cello professorship role at Portland State University College of the Arts
Cellist of the Florestan Trio Hamilton Cheifetz takes up the role of Florestan professor of cello
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Minnesota violinist Richard ‘Dick’ Adams has died
A former assistant concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra for over 30 years, Richard ‘Dick’ Adams has passed away aged 94
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Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky joins the Purcell School as a patron
Sitkovetsky accepts his new honour with ’great joy and enthusiasm’
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Canadian cellist Marcel Saint-Cyr has died
The founding cellist of the Orford Quartet, as well as a viola da gambist, baryton player and educator was 85 years old
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Cellists needed to help raise funds for hunger charity
The Simple Gifts Cello Project invites cellists of all abilities to submit a video recording and a donation to the charity Rise Against Hunger
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New solo cello for Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Anton Spronk will take up the post of solo cellist from March 2024
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Violinist Jason Yu joins the Cleveland Orchestra
Yu departs the New York Philharmonic to take up the role of assistant principal second violin in Cleveland, along with fellow new appointment Luke Sieve on bass trombone