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ArticleBetts copy joins national collection
Violin made at Oberlin violin makers workshop is added to Library of Congress collection
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Japanese–American violinist Mayumi Kanagawa wins Heifetz Competition in Vilnius
Japanese–American Mayumi Kanagawa (left) won the €6,000 first prize at the Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 18-year-old is a graduate of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. She was first-prize winner of the 2011 Irving M. Klein Competition in San ...
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ArticlePaul Huang: Ravel's Pièce en forme de Habanera
The March issue includes a review of 22-year-old violinist Paul Huang's NYC debut on 18 December. He also featured as our 'Fresh Face' in February 2012.
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13-year-old violinist Lara Boschkor wins Szeryng competition in Mexico
Lara Boschkor has won first prize in the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Toluca City, Mexico. The 13-year-old German, who is a student of Susanna Yoko Henkel at the University of Music and Dance, Cologne, received MXN350,000 (£18,000). Second prize went to Igor Pikaysen, 25, from Russia. British ...
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ArticleBulgarian police may have tracked down 1696 Stradivari violin stolen in 2010
Police in Bulgaria believe they have recovered the 1696 Stradivari violin (left) that was stolen from a London sandwich bar in 2010. Undercover detectives in Sofia were offered a Stradivari for £250,000 in a sting operation on Hristo Varbanov, a Roma mafia crime boss. The instrument, ...
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US national youth orchestra to contain 80 string musicians
Eighty string players from across the US have been chosen to be part of the inaugural National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO–USA). The ensemble, which comprises 120 musicians in total, will include 40 violins, 16 violas, 14 cellos and 10 double basses. They will come together ...
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ArticleLara Boschkor: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
This performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto brought 13-year-old German violinist Lara Boschkor the MXN350,000 (£18,000) first prize at the Szeryng Competition in Toluca City, Mexico on 2 March
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Indiana University Jacobs School of Music recruits Grigory Kalinovsky
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Grigory Kalinovsky to its string department. The violinist is set to join the Bloomington school as a professor of music in autumn 2013. Kalinovsky began violin studies in his native St Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova, and later trained at the ...
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ArticleIU recruits Grigory Kalinovsky
St Petersburg-born violinist to join IU Jacobs School of Music this autumn
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ArticleStolen Stradivari ‘recovered'
Bulgarian police may have tracked down the 1696 violin taken in 2010
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ArticleItzhak Perlman: Mizmor Lidovid
In the June issue we review Itzhak Perlman's concert of Jewish sacred music at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn. He performed with the cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, the Klezmer Conservatory Band and an 18-piece chamber orchestra, as well as members of the Perlman Music Program. Here is Helfgot's ...
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ArticleDouble blow for cellist
Airport security check that resulted in broken bow also damaged Alban Gerhardt's cello
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ArticleMimi Zweig: The first lesson
In the March issue, US teacher Mimi Zweig gives tips on introducing beginners to the violin. Here's a clip from her Stringpedagogy.com course, which can also be seen in the digital edition of The Strad.
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New York Philharmonic expands online digital archives with sheet music
The New York Philharmonic has added a large tranche of material to its digital archives, completing a three-year project to digitise orchestral parts, programmes and other documents dating from 1943 to 1970. The new material comprises more than 520,000 pages of marked instrument parts, encompassing nearly 1,200 works by ...
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ArticleCalder Quartet: Honey Flyers
The Calder Quartet, the March issue's cover stars, performed Christine Southworth's 2007 work Honey Flyers at the opening concert of the TED 2012 conference in San Diego, California
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ArticleViolin teacher gives $7m to school
USC Thornton School of Music receives gift from longtime professor
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ArticleBritten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
In the March issue, violinist and conductor Thomas Kemp gives tips on performing this cornerstone of string orchestra repertoire. Here's a performance by the Camerata String Orchestra
