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NewsYang Xi, concertmaster of the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, has died
The violinist, who had a varied career as a concertmaster, soloist and musical educator, has died of colon cancer
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Yo-Yo Ma plays cello at US-Mexico border
The Chinese-American cellist played Bach’s Cello Suite No 1, making a point about global unity
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Meet the candidates: Sendai International Music Competition
The Japanese competition offers $27,000 first prize plus a package of concerts and other benefits
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Queen Elisabeth Competition announces starry jury panel
Midori, Vadim Repin, Jaime Laredo and Arabella Steinbacher among jurors for €25,000 top prize event in Brussels
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Violinist Gabriela Peña-Kim selected for LA Phil Resident Fellows Programme
She joins the scheme that prepares musicians from historically underrepresented populations for positions in major orchestras
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700 smiling Beethovens to festoon Bonn for 2020 anniversary
The statues, designed by Ottmar Hörl, will be installed in the composer’s birth city this spring
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Texas orchestra violinist dies onstage after medical crisis
Yu Zhao Gu was sitting beside his wife when he fell from his seat mid-performance – fundraiser launched to help with medical bills and funeral costs
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Barbican Quartet wins International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition
The British ensemble receives €10,000 and a special prize for the best interpretation of a work composed before 1830
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Cellist whose playing saved her life in Auschwitz awarded German National Prize
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch has been awarded the prize for her decades of campaigning against anti-semitism
