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    US cellist Matthew Allen wins Carlos Prieto competition

    2012-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Matthew Allen has won first prize in the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition in Morelia, Mexico. Allen, 20, who studies with Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music, received $10,000. Second prize was shared between Georgi Anichenko, 27, from Belarus and Arnold Choi, also 27, from Canada. No third ...

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    Latvian Vineta Sareika replaces Natalia Prishepenko as Artemis Quartet first violinist

    2012-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has announced a change of personnel ahead of its 2012–13 season. First violinist Natalia Prishepenko is leaving the group after 18 years to focus on other musical activities and her family. Her replacement is Vineta Sareika, a Latvian violinist who was a prize winner at the ...

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    Violist Louise Lansdown named head of strings at Birmingham Conservatoire

    2012-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Louise Lansdown has joined Birmingham Conservatoire as its new head of strings. She has been a full-time viola and chamber music tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester since 2001. She is also director of chamber music at Pro Corda, the international chamber music academy at Leiston ...

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    Man who stole violins from Glinka Museum is detained after second robbery

    2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Moscow police have arrested a convicted thief who once stole a Stradivari violin on suspicion of stealing £80,000 in cash and valuables from a city apartment. Jakob Subbota, 43, a Chechen native, was convicted in 1998 of stealing a Stradivari violin and a Stainer violin from the Glinka Museum ...

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    Russian cellist Alexey Stadler wins Tonali Grand Prix

    2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Russian cellist Alexey Stadler, 21, won first prize at this year's Tonali Grand Prix in Hamburg, Germany. Stadler, who studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, received €10,000. The Tonali Grand Prix is an annual competition that alternates between violinists, cellists and ...

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    Pablo Casals plays Bach's Cello Suite no.1

    2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

    In the October issue, editor Ariane Todes reports from the Casals Festival, which still takes place annually in the French village of Prades. Here, the great cellist performs in the village's Abbaye Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, in a film made in 1954. You can find out more about the issue ...

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    Lost Persichetti violin sonata set for debut

    2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

    A sonata for violin and piano by American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) is to have its world premiere this September. The 1941 work was discovered by University of Utah violin professor Hasse Borup in the archives of the New York Public Library (NYPL) in 2010. The handwritten score was ...

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    German customs seize violinist Yuzuko Horigome's Guarneri 'del Gesù'

    2012-08-22T00:00:00Z

    A Japanese violinist whose 1741 Guarneri 'del Gesù' was seized by customs authorities in Germany has been told she must pay €380,000 (£300,000) to get it back, reports AFP. Yuzuko Horigome, who is based in Belgium, was flying home last week from Japan via Frankfurt ...

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    Noé Inui wins Verbier Festival Academy's Prix Julius Baer

    2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Noé Inui has won this year's Prix Julius Baer, worth CHF10,000 (£6,500), awarded by the Verbier Festival Academy. Inui, 27, was born in Brussels to a Greek mother and a Japanese father, and now lives in Dusseldorf. He studied in Brussels, Paris, Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf, and his teachers have ...

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    LPO violinist's discrimination claim rejected by tribunal

    2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

    A London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) violinist who was disciplined after signing a letter in protest against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing at the 2011 BBC Proms has had her claim of discrimination struck out by an employment tribunal. Sarah Streatfeild was one of four LPO musicians who put their ...

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    Colorado Symphony violinist sacked after after pleading guilty to sex offences

    2012-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The Colorado Symphony has fired one of its violinists days after he pleaded guilty to child sex offences. David Waldman had been a member of the orchestra since 1994. He pleaded guilty last week to sex assault on a child and attempted sex assault on a child, and was given ...

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    British bow maker and restorer Malcolm M. Taylor dies

    2012-08-20T00:00:00Z

    British bow maker and restorer Malcolm Taylor, who was one of the Hills workshop's leading postwar makers, has died at the age of 78. Taylor joined W.E. Hill & Sons as an apprentice in 1949, and worked there until 1973. After leaving the firm he made bows under his own ...

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    Pietro Guarneri violin stolen in London burglary

    2012-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Police in Brent, north-west London, are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a Guarneri violin that was stolen in a burglary on 17 August. The Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin was in a blue canvas fabric case, together with two bows, one of which has a Hills stamp on ...

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    Cellist, teacher and music festival founder David Wells dies aged 85

    2012-08-16T00:00:00Z

    US cellist David Wells has died at the age of 85. Best known for his performances of the Bach Cello Suites, he co-founded the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Vermont. Born in East Chicago, Indiana, Wells began playing the cello when he was nine, and studied at ...

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    Colorado Symphony violinist guilty of sex offences

    2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

    A violinist in the Colorado Symphony Orchestra has admitted to improperly touching two of his daughter's friends during sleepovers at his home, reports the Denver Post. David Waldman was sentenced to ten years to life on an intensive supervision probation programme for sex offenders after pleading guilty to sexual ...

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    Dutch violin maker and varnish expert Koen Padding dies

    2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Dutch violin maker Koen Padding, whose passion for classical varnish was known to many luthiers through the products he sold under the Magister brand name, died suddenly last week. He was in his mid-fifties. Padding trained at the Newark School of Violin Making in the UK and then spent ...

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    Call for 'Molitor' Stradivari violin to revisit Derry

    2012-08-13T00:00:00Z

    An author from Northern Ireland wants a Stradivari found under a bed in Derry in 1988 to play a part in the city's UK City of Culture celebrations in 2013, reports the Derry Journal. Nuala McAllister Hart explored the story of the 1697 'Molitor' Stradivari while doing research for ...

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    Zurich-based Trio Oreade triumphs at Munich International String Trio Competition

    2012-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The Zurich-based Trio Oreade won first prize in the International String Trio Competition in Munich. The ensemble of violinist Yukiko Ishibashi, violist Ursula Sarnthein and cellist Christine Hu received €3,000. Munich trio Triple Strings took third prize; no second prize was awarded.

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    János Starker: King of Cellists

    2012-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Joyce Geeting, author of János Starker: King of Cellists, is interviewed by Lorraine Hull and Bill Smithers in Santa Barbara, California about her book, career, music and János Starker, whom Geeting claims is the most influential person in the history of the cello. Joyce Geeting knew Starker personally, ...

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    Ricci playing Paganini aged 12

    2012-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The late, great violinist shows why he was one of the finest Paganini exponents ever