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    Violin said to have been played as Titanic sank to be auctioned

    2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

    A violin that belonged to Wallace Hartley, bandmaster on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, is to go on display in Belfast City Hall at the end of March. According to specialist Titanic auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son, the water-damaged instrument is the one played ...

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    Musicians hail EU ‘instruments on planes' debate

    2013-03-14T00:00:00Z

    European airlines will be obliged to lay out their terms and conditions for carrying musical instruments, both in the cabin and in the hold, under new revisions proposed by the European Commission (EC). The proposals, which could become law as early as 2014, will also ensure that instruments are not ...

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    CITES backs 'passports' for instruments containing endangered species

    2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have accepted a draft resolution to implement a so-called 'musical instrument passport' for musicians to present when crossing international borders. The passport, which will contain details of all protected species (such as ivory and tortoiseshell) within the instrument, will ...

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    Players of Ébène Quartet aboard aircraft as engine catches fire

    2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

    The four members of the Ébène Quartet were among the 213 passengers aboard Air France flight AF 217 when one of its engines caught fire on 11 March. The aeroplane, a twin-engine Airbus A330, was forced to return to Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai after just ...

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    bène Quartet players caught up in aircraft fire

    2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

    The four members of the Ébène Quartet were among the 213 passengers aboard Air France flight AF 217 when one of its engines caught fire on 11 March. The aeroplane, a twin-engine Airbus A330, was forced to return to Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai after just 27 minutes in ...

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    New rules for ebony trade: fingerboard and tailpiece wood will be subject to CITES restrictions

    2013-03-12T00:00:00Z

    The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has agreed new measures aimed at tackling the illegal trade in ebony from Madagascar. Delegates at a meeting of CITES in Bangkok, Thailand, agreed to five separate proposals regarding the list of protected species on CITES Appendix II. The appendix, which ...

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    Chamber group Trio Rafale wins CHF10,000 Swiss award

    2013-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The Zürich-based Trio Rafale (left) won both the first prize and the audience award at the final of the 'Migros Culture Percentage' national chamber music competition on 7 March. The trio, comprising violinist Daniel Meller, cellist Flurin Cuonz and pianist Maki Wiederkehr (all born in 1986), received a CHF10,000 (£7,000) ...

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    US violist Marc Sabbah, 25, takes first prize in Amsterdam viola competition

    2013-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Marc Sabbah took the €500 first prize at the third Amsterdam National Viola Competition, held in the Dutch city on 7 and 8 March. The 25-year-old (left), who was born in New York City, US, performed works by Bach and Shostakovich in the final. He is currently based in Brussels, ...

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    31 players receive instruments from German instrument fund

    2013-03-08T00:00:00Z

    The German Musical Instruments Fund has awarded 31 young German string players with loans of instruments from its 180-strong collection. The 18 violins, 4 violas and 9 cellos went to performers in the fund's competition, which this year was held in Hamburg. Among the highest-scoring participants in the competition ...

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    Contract dispute continues at San Francisco Symphony as players threaten strike

    2013-03-08T00:00:00Z

    The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony have voted unanimously to authorise a strike if their contract negotiations with management continue to stall. The action could affect the orchestra’s upcoming East Coast tour: running from 20-23 March, it would include concerts in New York, New Jersey and ...

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    Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle takes first prize at Lutoslawski Competition in Warsaw

    2013-03-08T00:00:00Z

    Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle won first prize at the Witold Lutoslawski International Cello Competition in Warsaw. The 20-year-old studies with Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich, and has also taken masterclasses with Steven Isserlis at Prussia Cove, Jens Peter Maintz at the Kronberg Academy and Ralph Kirshbaum in London. Dominik Ploci?ski, ...

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    Australian Quartet's first violin and viola quit

    2013-03-08T00:00:00Z

    The Australian Quartet (ASQ) will lose two of its members this year. First violinist Sophie Rowell and violist Sally Boud will step down following the quartet’s performances at the Huntington Estate Music Festival in late November. The quartet’s management has begun an international search to fill the posts ready ...

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    Glenn Dicterow to teach at MAW

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    NY Phil concertmaster to join Music Academy of the West faculty in 2014

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    Louisville Orchestra management and musicians agree three-year contract

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    The Louisville Orchestra has signed a three-year contract with its musicians. The new contract succeeds a one-year bridge agreement that ended the orchestra's 11-month labour dispute last April. The bridge agreement called for a 30-week season, down from 37 weeks in the 2010–11 season. The new contract keeps the ...

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    New contract agreed in Louisville

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Louisville Orchestra management and musicians reach three-year agreement

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    Japanese–American violinist Mayumi Kanagawa wins Heifetz Competition in Vilnius

    2013-03-05T00:00:00Z

    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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    Betts copy joins national collection

    2013-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Violin made at Oberlin violin makers workshop is added to Library of Congress collection

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    Bulgarian police may have tracked down 1696 Stradivari violin stolen in 2010

    2013-03-04T00:00:00Z

    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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    13-year-old violinist Lara Boschkor wins Szeryng competition in Mexico

    2013-03-04T00:00:00Z

    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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    Stolen Stradivari ‘recovered'

    2013-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Bulgarian police may have tracked down the 1696 violin taken in 2010