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ArticleBBC to cut Nigel Kennedy 'apartheid' statement
The BBC has confirmed it will remove a statement made last week by violinist Nigel Kennedy at a Proms concert for its TV broadcast on 23 August. The statement, made from the stage of the Royal Albert Hall, came at the end of a concert by Kennedy and ...
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ArticleViolinist William Hagen awarded Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship
American violinist William Hagen has won the Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Hagen, 20, was awarded a scholarship for the 2014 Aspen festival, where he will also give a performance with orchestra. Hagen, who hails from Utah, is a student of Robert Lipsett ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Maxim Vengerov
The Russian violinist performs the work with a Baroque bow
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ArticleYoung violinist stars in Filipino movie
A film about a seven-year-old violinist has become one of the Philippines’ most critically acclaimed releases of the year. Filmed in 2008, Boses (Voices) focuses on a mute boy’s friendship with a reclusive violin player, and how their shared love of the instrument helps them come to terms with the ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Jascha Heifetz
A 1970 recording shows the 69-year-old violinist on fine form
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ArticleJoshua Bell to judge Miss America contest
Joshua Bell has been named as a judge for the 2014 Miss America competition. The 45-year-old violinist will be one of seven adjudicators for the pageant, taking place on 15 September in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Bell (pictured performing at the 2013 BBC Proms) will be joined by Lance ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Ivry Gitlis
The unconventional violinist interprets the masterpiece
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ArticleSteven Isserlis to guest edit The Strad
The cellist takes over the October issue and has chosen an inspiring and provocative theme
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ArticleDmitry Shebalin (1930–2013)
Russian viola player and pedagogue Dmitry Shebalin has died at the age of 83. For more than four decades he performed with the Borodin Quartet, one of the most acclaimed chamber music groups of the 20th century.Born in 1930, Shebalin was the son of the composer and teacher Vissarion Shebalin. ...
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ArticleAssistant concertmaster leaves Minnesota Orchestra
Another of the Minnesota Orchestra's locked-out musicians has quit the ensemble. Assistant concertmaster Stephanie Arado (pictured) has resigned to take up a teaching post at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Arado, who joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1991, wrote in an email to the orchestra's leadership: 'My ...
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ArticleBorodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich
The Borodin Quartet performs Tchaikovsky's String Quartet no.1 op.11 & no.2 op.22, followed by Shostakovich's String Quartets no.3 op.73 & no.8 op.110. Recorded at the Henry Wood Hall, London, 7-9 October 1987Mikhail Kopelman, violinAndrei Abramenkov, violinDmitry Shebalin, violaValentin Berlinsky, celloSubscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleErhu player receives Royal College of Music degree
London’s Royal College of Music (RCM) has awarded its first degree in a traditional Chinese instrument. Singaporean musician Chew Jun Ru, 24, has graduated with a BMus in performance on the erhu, a two-stringed bowed instrument sometimes known as a ‘Chinese violin’.Chew, 24, has principally studied at Singapore’s Nanyang Academy ...
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ArticleEx-Chetham's teacher Malcolm Layfield arrested
Malcolm Layfield, former head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), has been arrested on suspicion of three historic rapes. The 61-year-old, who quit his post at the RNCM in February, was detained over alleged offences of rape against three girls, two aged 16 and one aged ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Ida Haendel
A recent performance by the violinist illustrates her special sound.
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ArticleFernando Grillo (1946–2013)
Fernando Grillo, the Italian double bassist, composer and teacher, has died at the age of 67. Closely associated with Italy’s avant-garde movement, he experimented with new forms of sound production and collaborated with composers including Salvatore Sciarrino, Harrison Birtwistle, Iannis Xenakis and Luciano Berio. Karlheinz Stockhausen once dubbed Grillo ‘the ...
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ArticleRCM graduate Chew Jun Ru in performance
Chew Jun Ru's performance at the 2012 National Chinese Music Competition. The Singaporean musician took first prize in the erhu category. Chew has recently become the Royal College of Music's first graduate in a traditional Chinese instrument. Read the full story. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition ...
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ArticleAdrian Shepherd (1939–2013)
Cellist and ensemble director Adrian Shepherd has died at the age of 74. For 20 years he served as principal cellist in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), but was best known as the founder of the chamber ensemble Cantilena, which mainly comprised players from the orchestra.Born in 1939 in ...
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ArticleConversations with great artists: Steven Isserlis meets Ida Haendel
In an interview recorded in 2012 at London's Wigmore Hall, Steven Isserlis is joined by violinist Ida Haendel to speak about her life in music, the place of music in her life and her views on the essential spirit of being a performer. 'I am the violin', ...
