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Chaudière violin thief jailed for six months
A man from Hounslow, London, who admitted stealing a Frédéric Chaudière violin valued at £25,000 from a train, has been sentenced to six months in jail. The violin's owner, Catrin Win Morgan of the Brodowsky Quartet, had placed the instrument, which was in a black Gewa case, on an ...
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ArticleBlind Ear Music
In the January issue, violinist Kristin Lee and composer Adam Reifsteck discuss 'Blind Ear Music' where the pieces are composed 'in real time'. Here's more information, with a sample of how it sounds.
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ArticleTim Ingles and Paul Hayday leave Sotheby's to set up own auction firm
Sotheby's auctioneers Tim Ingles and Paul Hayday have left the London company to form their own specialist auction house and dealership. Ingles & Hayday will be based at 94–96 Wigmore Street, and will hold its first sale on 21 May 2013. Sotheby's will cease to hold instrument ...
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Violinist Nicola Benedetti receives MBE in New Year Honours list
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti has received an MBE in the New Year Honours list. She was honoured for services to music and to charity. Benedetti has worked with organisations such as Sistema Scotland and the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity, and has been an outspoken supporter of music education.Elsewhere on ...
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ArticleEnglish Violin Duos. Works by Aitchison, McCabe, Moeran, Croft, D. Matthews & Rawsthorne
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A satisfyingly executed disc of music for two violinsMusicians: Retorica: Philippa Mo, Harriet Mackenzie (violin)Composer: Aitchison, McCabe, Moeran, Croft, D. Matthews & Rawsthorne Inspired by friendships with composers John McCabe and David Matthews, this young British violin duo has fashioned a ...
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ArticleThe Silver Violin. Works by Korngold, J. Williams, Gardel (arr. Lenehan), Shostakovich, Hess, Marianelli, Shore & Mahler
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A fluent account of the Korngold Concerto in a filmic settingMusicians: Nicola Benedetti, Alexander Sitkovesky (violin) Tom Dunn (viola) Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Ksenija Sidorova (accordion) Greg Knowles (cimbalom) Alexei Grynyuk (piano) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill KarabitsComposer: Korngold, J. Williams, Gardel (arr. Lenehan), Shostakovich, ...
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ArticlegEIGENgARTEN. Music by Nørgård, Nordentoft, Nordheim, Kulenty, Henze, Evensen, Lorentzen & Scelsi
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection for solo violin let down by a sense of detachmentMusicians: Helge Slaatto (violin)Composer: Nørgård, Nordentoft, Nordheim, Kulenty, Henze, Evensen, Lorentzen & ScelsiNorwegian violinist and contemporary-music specialist Helge Slaatto’s disc focuses on 20th-century Scandinavian music for solo violin, with pieces ...
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Ligeti Quartet channels Noël Coward in theatrical performance
As part of its Park Lane Group concert in London's Purcell Room on 11 January, the Ligeti Quartet gives the world premiere of a work that asks its performers to act as well as play. Hay Fever, by London-based composer and mezzo-soprano Laura Bowler, is inspired by Noël Coward's ...
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Italian student uses Facebook in search for violin stolen in Florence
A 20-year-old Italian violin student has set up a Facebook page to appeal for the safe return of her stolen instrument. The violin, a 1989 Guadagnini-model Claude Lebet valued at €15,000, was snatched at Florence's Santa Maria Novella station on Monday 17 December. The Catania-born owner, Gemma Raneri, ...
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ArticleBartók: Divertimento for string orchestra
In the January 2013 issue, Bradley Creswick discusses playing the first violin part of Bartók's Divertimento. Here's a performance of the first movement by I Solisti di Zagreb
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Los Angeles Philharmonic appoints Robert deMaine as principal cellist
Cellist Robert deMaine has accepted the job of principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter's music director, Gustavo Dudamel, offered deMaine the position after the cellist completed a trial week with the orchestra earlier this year. DeMaine, who has been principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra ...
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Jazz bassist Charlie Haden to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Grammys
Jazz bassist and composer Charlie Haden has been named as one of the recipients of this year's Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards. Haden was honoured for his work with artists including Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon. The award citation described the 75-year-old as 'an all-American jazz ...
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ArticleTeppo-Hauta Aho: Kadenza
In the December issue, bassist David Murray reports on the Bass2012 convention in Copenhagen, where a concert of Teppo-Hauta Aho's music was a highlight. Here's Enrico Fagone performing at the concert.
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Cremonese violin making recognised by UNESCO
UNESCO has placed Cremonese violin making on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Lutherie in the Italian city was one of 27 activities and traditions that were added to the list after a UNESCO committee meeting in Paris this month. Others include traditional straw-hat weaving ...
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Cellist Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
The South Korean cellist and conductor Han-Na Chang has been named as the new music director of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. The 29-year-old will begin her new position in September 2013, taking over from Michalis Economou. Chang, who won first prize at the Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris ...
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Kim Kashkashian and Antonio Meneses among artists up for 2013 Grammy awards
The nominees for the 2013 Grammy Awards have been announced, with a scattering of top string players in the mix. Kim Kashkashian is nominated in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for her ECM recording Kurtág/Ligeti: Viola Music. Antonio Meneses features in the same category for his disc of cello ...
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Pioneering violin teacher Eta Cohen dies at 96
Violin pedagogue Eta Cohen, who developed a pioneering teaching method for beginners, has died at the age of 96. Born in Sunderland, UK, to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania, Cohen studied the violin locally and began teaching after leaving school at the age of 17. She taught privately and ...
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ArticlePlaying cello in the field
In the January 2013 issue we profile Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó, who has played to Lipizzaner stallions in Vienna. Well here's a cow-whispering Dutch cellist, Harriet Krijgh.
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Adès, Birtwistle, Larcher receive prizes at British Composer Awards
Three of the winners at this year's British Composer Awards received their prizes for string compositions. The 2012 awards, given by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, were announced at a ceremony in London's Goldsmiths' Hall on 3 December. Harrison Birtwistle, who has previously been recognised three ...
