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Stefan Lindholm and Christian Lijsen claim top prizes in Pisogne violin making competition
German maker Christian Lijsen and Swedish luthier Stefan Lindholm won multiple prizes at the third International Violin Making Competition in Pisogne, Italy. Lijsen took both the gold and silver medals for his copies of historical instruments. Pal Racz, from Hungary, received the bronze medal. In the antiqued instruments ...
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's online concerto competition ends with no winner
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's (PSO) nationwide search for a concerto soloist via an online competition has ended without a winner. Four finalists, including violinist William Hagen, 19, from Salt Lake City, and cellist Angela Park, 25, from Philadelphia, auditioned for the chance to win $10,000 and perform with the orchestra. ...
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Chinese violist Wenting Kang triumphs in Tokyo viola competition
Wenting Kang has won first prize at the Tokyo International Viola Competition. The 24-year-old, who studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory, received ¥1m (about £8,000). Second prize went to Barbara Buntrock from Germany. Japanese violist Kimi Makino took third prize.
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ArticleThe Busch Quartet performs Beethoven
Adolf Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) formed the Busch Quartet in 1920. This recording of the third movement of Beethoven's String Quartet no.15 dates from 1937. Read a history of the Busch Quartet in our March 2012 issue, still available for download here.
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ArticleBelcea Quartet (2005) plays Ravel
Laura Samuel has just been named leader designate of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Here she is performing Ravel's Quartet in F major in her days as 1/4 of the Belcea Quartet
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ArticleSchumann's Adagio and Allegro: Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax perform Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro op.70 nos.1 & 2.Coincidentally, Robert Schumann and Emanuel Ax share a birthday: 8 June. Listen to Ax, Ma and Itzhak Perlman discussing the coincidence in a 2011 concert at Lincoln Center, New York.
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ArticleQueen Elisabeth winner Andrey Baranov
Here's the winner of this year's Queen Elisabeth Competition, Russian violinist Andrey Baranov, playing Tchaikovsky's Valse-scherzo.
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Violinist Laura Samuel named leader of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Violinist Laura Samuel has been named leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She will take up the post at the start of the 2012–13 season, though she will perform as leader designate with the orchestra at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Born in 1976, Samuel studied with Itzhak ...
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ArticleThe Jerusalem Quartet play Mozart
In the June issue, violist Ori Kam discusses joining the Jerusalem Quartet. Here's the ensemble in performance.
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ArticleItzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax: Schumann and Mendelssohn
The violinist, cellist and pianist talk about their mutual love of Schumann and Mendelssohn in a concert from 2011.
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Guadagnini quartet assembled in Australia
Four instruments by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini have been brought together through a philanthropic project in Australia. All four instruments have been loaned to the Australian Quartet for its current national tour. The Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation has spent AUD4m (£2.55m) acquiring three instruments by the Italian master, and is currently ...
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Hieronymus Quartet takes first prize at Cavatina competition in London
The Hieronymus Quartet has won the Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition, held at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London. The quartet, whose members study at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, received £2,000. The Wilhelm Quartet, from the RAM, and the Zelkova Quartet, from the Royal ...
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ArticleIgudesman and Joo with Kremer
Here is the June issue's Double Act, comedy duo Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo, in action with Gidon Kremer.
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Violinist Frances Darger to retire from Utah Symphony after 70 years
A Utah Symphony violinist is retiring this summer after 69 years in the orchestra. Frances Darger, 87, joined the orchestra in 1942. Apart from one year that she took off to pursue a singing career with her four sisters, she has played continuously for the orchestra. Her tenure is one ...
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ISM slams British Airways baggage policy on instruments
The UK’s Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) has denounced the decision by British Airways (BA) to reduce the size of hand luggage permissible on its flights. The new restrictions mean that violinists and viola players must either check in their instruments to be stored in the hold, or else buy ...
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ArticlePaganini: Violin Concerto no.1 in D major - full performance
In 2012 Shlomo Mintz celebrates 50 years of performing on stage. Here he is performing Paganini's Violin Concerto no.1 with Yoel Levi conducting the Limburg Symphony Orchestra. This concert was an initiative of a Dutch television network (TROS) and aired on TV in December 1997.Click here to read ...
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Violinist Andrey Baranov takes first prize at Queen Elisabeth violin competition
Russian violinist Andrey Baranov has won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. The 26-year-old received €25,000 and the loan of the Nippon Music Foundation's 1708 'Huggins' Stradivari for three years. The second prize went to 20-year-old Tatsuki Narita from Japan. Hyun Su Shin, 24, from South Korea, ...
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ArticleJoseph Hague plays Paganini's Caprice no.13
For years, Jascha Heifetz was believed to have made a series of spoof recordings under the name Joseph Hague. In the June issue, we reveal that Hague was a real person – and track his life and career as a violinist, teacher and rosin maker in the US. ...
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Beijing Symphony Orchestra fires cellist for rude behaviour
A Russian cellist in the Beijing Symphony Orchestra has been sacked after a video of him insulting a train passenger went viral on the internet. Oleg Vedernikov was filmed resting his bare feet on the seat of the woman in front of him, and then insulting her in Chinese when ...
