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Baltimore Symphony to develop amateur musicians programme
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has received $950,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the growth of its BSO Academy programme for adult amateur musicians. The BSO Academy began in June 2010 as a week-long immersive programme giving amateurs the opportunity to learn from and play alongside members ...
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Violinist James Dong takes first prize at Gisborne International Music Competition
Violinist James Dong has won first prize at the Gisborne International Music Competition in New Zealand. The 19-year-old, who studies with Ole Bohn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, received NZ$8,000. Second prize went to New Zealand trumpeter Thomas Eves. Cellist Minjin Lee, from Singapore, took third prize. Dong ...
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Osvaldo Golijov Violin Concerto delayed again
Leonidas Kavakos will have to continue his wait to premiere Osvaldo Golijov's Violin Concerto, after the composer said the work would not be ready in time for performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in January. Kavakos will instead perform Szymanowski's Violin Concerto no.2 at concerts in Philadelphia and New York. ...
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The Rest Is Noise festival of 20th-century music launches in London
London's Southbank Centre has announced highlights of an ambitious, year-long festival of 20th-century music. 'The Rest Is Noise', named after the book by Alex Ross, features 93 concerts and over 100 related events, tracing the music of the century chronologically. Among the performances in the first half of 2013 ...
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ArticleHoffmeister's Violone Concerto in E flat Major
In the December issue, double bassist Edicson Ruiz takes us through the first movement of this 18th-century concerto. Here he is with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar under Christian Vásquez
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Composer Michel van der Aa receives Grawemeyer award for cello concerto
Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for his multimedia cello concerto Up-close. Worth $100,000, the Grawemeyer is currently the most lucrative award for composition in the world. In its citation, the Grawemeyer jury praised the 30-minute work as ‘a highly innovative fusion of ...
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Brodskys recover 40 scores stolen in Netherlands
Dutch police have recovered the 40 scores that were stolen from the Brodsky Quartet on 15 November. The concert clothes and passports that were taken from the group's car were also recovered. According to Constance Deelen, the Brodskys' manager in the Netherlands, the scores were retrieved by police officers ...
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Funding announced for Sistema Scotland's second 'Big Noise' orchestra
The Scottish government has awarded £1.325m to Sistema Scotland, the social and music education programme inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema. The money will be used to establish a children’s orchestra in Govanhill, one of Glasgow’s most deprived areas, following the success of the programme’s first project in Raploch, Stirling. ...
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Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh wins at Amsterdam Cello Biennale
Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh has won the first prize at the 2012 Amsterdam Cello Biennale. The 21-year-old received €8,000 as well as the €1,000 audience prize. Finland's Jonathan Roozeman, 15, took the €6,000 second prize, and American cellist Jonathan Butler came third, receiving €4,000. Butler was also awarded €1,000 for ...
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Bavarian violin maker Geigenbau Leonhardt receives export award
A lutherie firm based in Mittenwald, Germany, has received an export award from the Bavarian economics ministry. Geigenbau Leonhardt was recognised for its innovative approaches to marketing to overseas territories. The firm was one of four south German companies honoured by the ministry. Announcing the prizes, economics minister Martin ...
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New York Philharmonic announces Shanghai partnership
The New York Philharmonic (NYP) has announced a four-year partnership with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. The agreement, signed on 14 November, includes annual performance residencies by the NYP in Shanghai, and involvement in a specialised training programme for orchestra musicians. According to a joint statement, the programme will begin ...
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Violin, viola, cello and bow makers honoured at VSA competition
Sixteen gold medals were awarded at the Violin Society of America’s international makers' competition held in Cleveland, Ohio, on 15 November. Feng Jiang, who is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, won gold medals for both tone and workmanship in the violin category – a feat that has occurred only once ...
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Sheet music scores stolen from Brodsky Quartet
The Brodsky Quartet has suffered the theft of 40 string quartet scores while on a tour of the Netherlands. Concert clothes and a laptop computer were also stolen from the back of the group’s car, following a performance in Haarlem on 14 November. The quartet has offered a €500 reward ...
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McDuffie Center for Strings receives $1.5m grant
The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University will move to a new site next autumn after receiving a $1.5m grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, reports The Telegraph. The donation will fund the renovation of a 10,000 square-foot, 1860s mansion in Macon, Georgia, which will house the ...
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London violin dealers J.&A. Beare lose three directors
Three of the five directors of London violin dealers J.&A. Beare have stepped down from their directorship roles. Charles Beare has retired as a director, but will continue to act as an expert consultant on matters relating to the authenticity of instruments, according to a statement on the company's website. ...
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Former violin dealer Dietmar Machold gets six years in prison
Dietmar Machold was sentenced today in Vienna to six years in prison, reports ORF. The former violin dealer, 63, was convicted of embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy after a trial that began in September and reconvened this past week. The sentence could still be appealed, however. Machold could have received ...
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Sydney player's stolen violin found after theft on Vienna Underground
Emma West, a violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, has been reunited with the violin that was stolen from her in Vienna, reports the Wiener Zeitung. The violinist was travelling on an underground train in the city on 15 September 2012 when her instrument, worth an estimated €44,000, was ...
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ArticleElliott Carter: String Quartet no.2
Possibly one of the most difficult works in the quartet repertoire, but the one that netted the late Elliott Carter his first Pulitzer prize.
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ArticleAmerican composer Elliott Carter dies
US composer Elliott Carter has died at the age of 103. Known for his difficult, uncompromising works, he penned five string quartets during a career that spanned nine decades. The second and third quartets won Carter the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1960 and 1973. Born ...
