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ArticleBudapest Festival Orchestra offers apprenticeships to European Union Youth Orchestra players
The musicians of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) will get the chance to play as part of the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) in 2014–15, under a newly announced apprenticeship scheme. The partnership between the two orchestras will mean that EUYO players can work on BFO projects for up to ...
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ArticleAustralian Chamber Orchestra debuts digital installation
A new music installation has been launched in Australia, designed to give listeners a concert experience without any musicians present. Devised by the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), the project consists of 13 screens, each featuring an ensemble member in performance, surrounding the audience. The sound of each individual musician comes ...
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Huberman
Silent footage from 1929 shows how the violinist gets round the instrument
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ArticleThe Strad October 2013: Steven Isserlis talks to Ariane Todes
UK cellist Steven Isserlis has taken on the role of guest editor for The Strad's October 2013 edition. He's chosen a theme of 'great players from the past', and in this conversation with editor Ariane Todes, he discusses his conception for the issue.'I think the Bach playing of ...
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Article23 Spanish orchestras perform simultaneous protest concert
More than a thousand professional orchestral musicians from across Spain took part in a simultaneous concert on 23 September, in protest against arts budget cuts and a sharp rise in VAT on concert tickets. Twenty-three out of the 26 orchestras that are members of AMPOS, the country's professional symphony orchestra ...
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ArticlePhiladelphia Orchestra recruits associate concertmaster
Shanghai-born violinist Ying Fu has joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate concertmaster. A first-prize winner at the 2011 Schmidbauer and 2012 Rodolfo Lipizer competitions, he has been a first violinist in the Cleveland Orchestra for the past two seasons.Ying Fu studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music before moving to ...
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ArticleVerdi's Quartet in E minor performed on four Stradivaris
The Stradivari Quartet – violinists Xiaoming Wang and Sebastian Bohren, violist Lech Antonio Uszynski and cellist Maja Weber – perform Verdi's Quartet in E minor at the newly opened Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The concert took place on 21 September as part of the STRADIVARIfestival. ...
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ArticleCould Mittenwald be sitting on a fortune in Nazi treasure?
Mittenwald, the violin making hub in southern Germany, could be the last resting place of a cache of gold and diamonds belonging to Adolf Hitler, according to a Dutch film-maker. Leon Giesen, 51, has carried out three excavations in the Bavarian town and is seeking funding for a fourth, using ...
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ArticleWhen they were young: Pinchas Zukerman
A young Pinchas Zukerman plays Schumann's Violin Sonata in F major 'F-A-E' - II. IntermezzoClick here to see an older Zukerman in performance with Itzhak PerlmanSubscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleTwo beloved pedagogues to be remembered in the US
Memorials for cellist János Starker and violinist Masuko Ushioda will take place over the next two weekends at the respective US institutions where they were longtime teachers. On Sunday 22 September the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, will honour János Starker at a free, public memorial. ...
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ArticleJetstar to allow violins and violas on flights
Australian budget airline Jetstar is set to amend its cabin baggage policy regarding musical instruments. The new policy will allow instruments up to 81cm long as carry-on baggage, which will include violin and viola cases. Jetstar, a low-cost subsidiary of Qantas Airways, currently allows baggage of up to 56cm in ...
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ArticleChina's international lutherie competition announces results
The results are in from the second China International Violin Making and Bow Making Competition, held in Beijing. In the violin division, the gold medal and 120,000 yuan (€14,500) prize went to Xiangwei Chen from China. Chen also won the silver medal. Bronze went to Min Sung Kim from Italy. ...
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Article2014 Primrose Competition postponed until June
The American Viola Society (AVS) has put back the 2014 Primrose International Viola Competition by five months. The competition was scheduled to be held in Las Vegas from 12 to 18 January, but will now take place from 1 to 7 June, although the location is still to be confirmed.Since ...
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ArticleThe way they played: Michael Rabin
The American violinist (1936–1972) performs Fritz Kreisler's Caprice viennois and Tambourin Chinois Read about the great violin players in our Violin Heroes bookazine. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleGreat teachers on film: Anner Bylsma
The Dutch cellist and pedagogue gives a masterclass on Hoffmeister's Concerto in E flat major, with Venezuelan double bassist Edicson Ruiz. Recorded in 2009. Read Ruiz's own thoughts on the Concerto in our December 2012 issue, available for download here. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a ...
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ArticleGreat players as teachers: Yehudi Menuhin
The great violinist gives a masterclass to some young musicians on Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and the Brahms Violin Concerto.Click here to hear Menuhin's advice on left-hand holdSubscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleYura Lee wins solitary first prize at ARD Music Competition
The ARD Music Competition in Munich, Germany, finished yesterday with only one first prize being awarded across the four categories of violin, viola, piano trio and bassoon.The lone first prize of €10,000 went to South Korean Yura Lee in the viola division. Lee, a 28-year-old violinist and violist, studied at ...
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ArticleFedor Roudine wins Rodolfo Lipizer violin competition
Fedor Roudine, from Russia, won first prize at the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy. The 21-year-old, who has studied since 2005 with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, received 12,000 euros.Second prize went to Amalia Hall, 24, from New Zealand. French violinist David ...
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ArticleA quarter of orchestral musicians in constant pain, finds study
A new study of symphony orchestra musicians in Australia found that a significant minority experience chronic performance-related pain. Half of the 377 players from Australia's eight professional state orchestras questioned for the study reported that they currently have pain when performing. One quarter said that they experience performance-related pain constantly, ...
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ArticlePioneering jazz cellist Fred Katz dies aged 94
American cellist and composer Fred Katz has died at the age of 94. Classically trained, Katz was credited as the first musician to explore the cello's potential for jazz improvisation.Born in New York in 1919, Katz studied piano and cello as a child, and took lessons with Leif Rosanoff, who ...
