Latest news – Page 249
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NewsVideo: Violinist Itzhak Perlman campaigns for universal polio vaccination
The artist contracted the disease when he was four years old
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NewsConductor, composer and violinist Lorin Maazel has died aged 84
The American maestro forged an international career for 75 years
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NewsUK lutherie student receives Special Award from Rowan Armour-Brown Memorial Trust
The inaugural award recognises students of particular potential
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NewsViolinist Nicola Benedetti breaks UK chart top 20 with her new album
Not since Vanessa Mae and Nigel Kennedy has a solo British violinist featured in the top 20 pop chart
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NewsCharles Castleman appointed professor of violin at Miami's Frost School of Music
The violinist is currently a professor at the Eastman School of Music in New York
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NewsUniversity of Michigan appoints violinist Danielle Belen to its string faculty
The musician is a seasoned pedagogue and member of the Colburn School violin faculty
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News1710 ‘Ivashkin' Guarneri cello loaned to Canadian Korean artist Soo Bae
The instrument was previously on permanent loan to the late Russian cellist Alexander Ivashkin
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NewsViolinist and sex abuse victim Frances Andrade was in ‘incredible despair', inquest hears
The 48-year-old musician took her own life after giving evidence against former Chetham's School of Music teacher Michael Brewer
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NewsViolinist Ziyu He wins 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians competition
The 15-year-old performed Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in the final
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NewsStudy finds childhood musical training enhances cognitive brain function
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital say a minimum of two years of private lessons boosts ‘executive functioning'
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NewsSingapore launches $50,000 triennial International Violin Competition
Applications are now open for the event, designed to discover major new talent
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NewsFrench postal service reports cello bow lost and then has the item auctioned
The €2,800 bow had been made for a member of the Paris Opera
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NewsViolinist and stringed instrument expert Staffan Borseman has died aged 60
A respected former concertmaster, the artist was founder of Stradivari Invest and creator of the Leopold bow
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NewsChicago Chamber Musicians disband due to financial difficulties
The society of 13 musicians was founded in 1986
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NewsAmerican violinist Janet Packer has died aged 64
The contemporary music advocate was president of the Pro Violino Foundation
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NewsViolinist Carolin Widmann wins Schneider-Schott Music Prize
The artist has been recognised for her commitment to the work of living composers
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NewsRare ‘Macdonald' Stradivarius viola fails to attract a buyer
Auctioneers Sotheby's and Ingles & Hayday invited bids in excess of $45m
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NewsIngles & Hayday to auction Vuillaume ‘Messiah' violin copy
The instrument is expected to fetch up to £150,000
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NewsVideo: a violin thief caught on camera
Watch surveillance footage of the moment a man steals a violin from the University of Utah
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NewsViolist Gareth Zehngut joins the Minnesota Orchestra
The musician was awarded a position with the orchestra in 2012, but was prevented from signing his contract by the long-running labour dispute
