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NewsClarissa Bevilacqua wins International Mozart Competition
The 18-year-old takes home €11,000 in prize money at the Salzburg-based contest
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NewsBarbican Quartet joins St John’s Smith Square Young Artists scheme
The London-based ensemble will receive performance dates at the chamber venue and career support
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FeaturePostcard from Odense
This year’s Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, which took place in March, succeeded not only as a joyous celebration of the composer’s music, but in bringing together exciting young players set to make their mark on the world stage, writes Charlotte Smith
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions and Appointments
The Barbican Quartet has won the €10,000 first prize at the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar, Germany. Founded in 2014 at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the quartet comprises violinists Amarins Wierdsma and Tim Crawford, violist Christoph Slenczka and cellist Yoanna Prodanova. Second prize went ...
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NewsTimothy Chooi wins 2018 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition
The 24-year-old performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in the final round
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NewsIndianapolis '21st Century Violin Search' names two winning luthiers
Instruments by the winners will be bought by the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and loaned to the laureates of the 2018 contest
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NewsRichard Lin wins 10th International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
The 27-year-old violinist takes home the Gold Medal and the top prize of $30,000
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NewsString players lead the field at Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 final
Four out of six finalists perform on bowed stringed instruments
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NewsWinners announced at 2018 Schoenfeld Competition
Lorenz Chen and Zlatomir Fung win top honours at the event in Harbin, China
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DebateIs playing a concerto really the ultimate test of musicianship?
Performing a concerto has long been regarded as the highest test of a string player's musical prowess. But what exactly do they prove, asks Toby Deller
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NewsJury named for 2018 Schoenfeld Competition
Jean-Jacques Kantorow and David Geringas to chair the violin and cello divisions respectively
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NewsNancy Zhou wins $50,000 first prize at International Music Competition Harbin
American violinist, 25, adds the Chinese accolade to a number of recent competition successes
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News17-year-old Anne Luisa Kramb takes top string prize at Manhattan Competition
Prize includes paid recital at Carnegie Hall to take place on 22 September this year
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ArticleWIN the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn CD
In the July 2017 issue of The Strad, we talk to the four members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion – about their continuing fascination with the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, whose string quartets they are ...
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NewsViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter calls for fans to design her new album cover
The winnning design of new album 'Mutterissimo' will be personally chosen by the violinist
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NewsSendai International Violin Competition 2016 names six finalists
The violinists are competing for a $26,000 grand prize in Sendai, Japan
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NewsCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason wins BBC Young Musician 2016
The 17-year-old from Nottingham performed Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto no.1 in the final
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NewsSendai International Violin Competition 2016 names shortlisted candidates
The 40 selected violinists will compete for a $26,000 grand prize in Sendai, Japan in May and June
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NewsBBC launches The Great British Amateur Orchestra
Amateur orchestras throughout the UK are invited to compete for the title, screened on BBC Two and BBC Four
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ArticleVideo: Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart's Violin Concerto no.3
Conductor and early music pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who announced his retirement on Saturday 5 December, conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Violin Concerto no.3 in G major K216, with soloist Gidon Kremer. Violinist Ray Chen will give a Masterclass on the first movement of this concerto in ...