All News articles – Page 88
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NewsBenedetti Foundation begins new Baroque Virtual Sessions
The sessions will take place for three weeks from 5 – 25 July with a final concert on Sunday 1 August
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NewsArabella Steinbacher to play on 1718 ‘Benno Walter’ Stradivari
The instrument was formerly played by Dezsö Szigeti, the uncle of Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti
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NewsViolinist Marlon Barrios Araya wins Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize 2021
The 18-year-old violinist performed a winning recital of Beethoven, Ysaÿe and Sarasate at Milton Court Concert Hall on 25 June
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NewsOnline competition jury ‘watched 22 seconds of my video’, claims entrant
Arseniy Strokovskiy also alleged that some videos submitted by him and his duo partner were not watched at all
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NewsCellist John-Henry Crawford named as National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist
The biennial award, worth $20,000, is given to unrepresented young artists ready for a concert career
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NewsViolin prodigy Leia Zhu to perform at free BMW Classics concert in Trafalgar Square
The 14-year-old will perform with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle
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NewsNew study reveals the wood treatments used by Stradivari, Amati and Guarneri
The report reveals how the luthiers changed the molecular structure of the spruce used for instrument tops
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NewsPinchas Zukerman apologises for ‘culturally insensitive’ masterclass
The violinist’s masterclass at Friday’s Starling-DeLay symposium was withheld due to racially insensitive comments
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NewsViolinist Arkadij Vinokurow dies aged 72
The Ukrainian musician and professor worked in Austria for the last three decades of his life
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NewsEasyJet updates cabin baggage policy for musical instruments
Instruments up to 30 x 117 x 38 cm can now be taken onboard
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NewsZachary DePue to become concertmaster of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra
The violinist previously held a position as concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for more than ten years
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NewsJuilliard withholds Pinchas Zukerman’s masterclass
The masterclass contained use of ’insensitive and offensive cultural stereotypes’
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NewsRoyal Northern Sinfonia appoints Maria Włoszczowska as its new leader
The Polish violinist’s first concert in the role will be the season-opening concert on Saturday 18 September at Sage Gateshead
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NewsObituary: professor and cellist Tao Song 1932-2021
The cellist was a long-standing pedagogue at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
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NewsFire breaks out at Chetham’s School of Music
The fire started in a concert hall at the Long Millgate campus around 2.20am on Thursday
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NewsAndrew Lloyd Webber demands results of UK government’s test pilot events
‘When you find a viola player who has been playing the Walton Concerto stacking shelves in Tesco you begin to weep,’ he said
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NewsViolinist Randall Goosby signs joint management deal with HarrisonParrott and Primo Artists
’For me, personally, music has been a way to inspire others’
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NewsCo-principal double bass of London Symphony Orchestra retires
Colin Paris joined the orchestra in 1988, becoming co-principal in 1991
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NewsBBC Radio 3 announces record number of New Generation Artists, including rising star violinist
Among the artists selected for the talent development scheme is the Spanish violinist María Dueñas, winner of this year’s Menuhin Competition
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn appointed Chicago Symphony Orchestra artist in residence
Hahn will begin her two-year tenure in September 2021
