All competition articles – Page 5

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    What happened at the 2013 China International Violin and Bow Making Competition

    7 October 2013

    With an array of experts in attendance, Beijing's international violin and bow making competition was an engrossing affair. Nancy Pellegrini hears a range of views on the industry, and China's growing position within it

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    China's international lutherie competition announces results

    18 September 2013

    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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    2014 Primrose Competition postponed until June

    17 September 2013

    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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    Fedor Roudine wins Rodolfo Lipizer violin competition

    15 September 2013

    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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    Yura Lee wins solitary first prize at ARD Music Competition

    15 September 2013

    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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    Romanian violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea wins Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria

    10 September 2013

    Ioana Cristina Goicea took first prize in the violin division of the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. The 20-year-old from Romania (pictured), who studies with Mariana Sirbu at the 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, received 2,500 euros. Second prize in the violin division ...

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    Russian violinist Elena Tarosyan wins Kloster Schöntal competition

    9 September 2013

    Elena Tarosyan won first prize in the senior division of the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition in Germany. The 20-year-old Russian (pictured), who studies at the Moscow Conservatoire with Edward Grach, received 3,000 euros. Second prize went to Olga Sroubkova from the Czech Republic. Japanese violinist Reina ...

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    Dover Quartet wins first prize at Banff competition

    1 September 2013

    The Dover Quartet took first prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in Canada. The American group won C$25,000 (£15,000) and a three-year career development programme. The ensemble also received the prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet, and an award for the best ...

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    Japanese violinist Sunao Goko wins new Swiss competition

    29 August 2013

    Japanese violinist Sunao Goko was victorious in last night's final round of the inaugural Tibor Varga International Violin Competition Sion Valais in Switzerland. The 20-year-old Goko (pictured), who studies with Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatoire, received CHF15,000 (£10,400) for his first prize. He also won the ...

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    Study suggests that judgement of music competitions is led more by sight than sound

    20 August 2013

    New research into how music competition performances are evaluated suggests that what judges see matters more than what they hear. Scientists at University College London set out to test the general consensus that sound is the most important element in judging a musical performance. The findings were published in the ...

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    Does success in music competitions really matter?

    20 August 2013

    Violin laureates share their stories with The Strad

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    Violinist William Hagen awarded Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship

    18 August 2013

    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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    Joshua Bell to judge Miss America contest

    13 August 2013

    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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    Violinist, 17, wins Schleswig-Holstein competition

    4 August 2013

    Munich-based violinist Louise Wehr has won the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s competition for young musicians, which this year was devoted to the violin. The 17-year-old received €5,000 as well as the €500 audience prize at the competition’s final on 3 August.Born in 1996, Wehr (pictured) performed Chausson’s Poème and Bach’s Partita ...

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    Two violinists share top prize at Cooper International Competition

    26 July 2013

    Kyumin Park, 16, from South Korea, and 18-year-old William Ching-Yi Wei, from Taiwan, were joint first-prize winners of the Cooper International Violin Competition in Cleveland, US.Park (pictured) and Wei each received $10,000. The second prize of $6,000 went to Ming Liu, 18, from China. All three violinists, who performed in ...

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    Does success in music competitions really matter? – Part Two

    20 August 2012

    Violin laureates share their stories with The Strad