All Artists articles – Page 29
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Violinist Julia Fischer up for a Grammy
Julia Fischer is one of the bigger string luminaries to feature in the nominations for the 53rd Grammy Awards, which will be presented in Los Angeles on 13 February. The violinist is nominated in the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) category for her Decca recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices. ...
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Juilliard fundraising auction offers Peking duck date with Perlman
Itzhak Perlman is one of the Juilliard faculty members and alumni doing their bit for the school's scholarship fund. Juilliard has launched a 'Lessons of a Lifetime' internet auction to benefit the fund, and the items on offer include lessons and workshops with some of the school's renowned teachers.Emanuel Ax ...
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Violinists Xiang Yu and Kerson Leong triumph at Menuhin Competition
Chinese violinist Xiang Yu, 21, and Canadian Kerson Leong, 13, won the senior and junior divisions respectively at the Menuhin Competition for young violinists. The start of the contest in Oslo was delayed because of the volcano-triggered flight bans in Europe, and several north American competitors were unable to make ...
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Menuhin Violin Competition delayed by Icelandic volcano
The schedule of the international Menuhin Competition for young violinists has been hit by the effects of the volcanic eruption in Iceland. With many northern European countries forced to close their airspace because of the danger that the cloud of volcanic ash poses to jet engines, the travel plans of ...
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Jennifer Higdon wins Pulitzer for violin concerto written for Hilary Hahn
Jennifer Higdon has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto. The work was written for Hilary Hahn, who gave the premiere with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in February 2009. The Brooklyn-born Higdon, who teaches composition at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, won a Grammy earlier this ...
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Violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Alina Ibragimova up for UK music awards
Violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Alina Ibragimova feature on the shortlist for this year's Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, which are given for outstanding live classical music making in the UK. Kavakos and Ibragimova join pianist Stephen Hough in the instrumental category while the Schubert Ensemble and the Takács Quartet head ...
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Violinist Joshua Bell to give benefit concert in Bloomington, Indiana
Violinist Joshua Bell will give a benefit concert to help children's music education in the city where he grew up. Proceeds from his 13 April recital in Bloomington, Indiana, with British pianist Sam Haywood will support elementary-school string programmes, which are under threat amid a public school funding crisis in ...
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Public outcry as EMI plans to sell Abbey Road studios used by Menuhin and Elgar
Reacting to reports that EMI has put its Abbey Road recording studios up for sale, Britain's National Trust is asking the public whether the studios should be saved. In a statement on its website, the National Trust said: 'If there is enough momentum, we may launch a campaign to save ...
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Japanese cellist Dai Miyata wins Rostropovich prize
Dai Miyata, a 23-year-old cellist from Japan, has won the first prize at the Concours Rostropovich in Paris. Miyata earned 10,000 euros for his victory. Jacob Koranyi, from Sweden, took second prize. Third prize went to Norbert Anger of Germany. The Concours Rostropovich, one of the world's leading cello competitions, ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: Joshua Bell's looking at me!
The new Joshua Bell Vivaldi Four Seasons recording has just come into the office and of course it sounds fantastic – full of the requisite energy and poetry. But with the CD comes a fold-out calendar featuring Bell looking tousled and sultry in what looks like his Baroque ...
