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Double bassist Timothy Cobb to join New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Double bassist Timothy Cobb will join the New York Philharmonic as acting principal bass for the 2011–12 season. Cobb is on leave from the Metropolitan Opera, where he is principal bass. The New York Philharmonic has four bass vacancies to fill, including the principal and associate principal positions.
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Notos and Excelsa quartets win at Charles Hennen competition
The Notos Quartet and the Excelsa Quartet have won the top prizes at the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in Heerlen, the Netherlands. The Notos Quartet, a German piano quartet which earlier this month won the 2011 Parkhouse Award in the UK, received first prize in the piano-and-string-ensemble division. ...
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Russian cellist Mikhail Nemtsov wins Fournier Award
Mikhail Nemtsov has won the Pierre Fournier Award after a final round of auditions at London's Wigmore Hall. The Russian cellist, 23, who studies with Hannah Roberts at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, received a prize that includes a recital at the Wigmore Hall, and several orchestral ...
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Pink Floyd to unveil solo by violinist Stéphane Grappelli
Three classic albums by Pink Floyd will be reissued later this year in multidisc versions featuring a raft of extras. Among the unreleased demos, live recordings and other rarities is a version of the title track from 1975's Wish You Were Here featuring Stéphane Grappelli. The French jazz violinist contributed ...
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Violinist Daniel Hope launches new show on German TV channel
Violinist Daniel Hope is presenting a new music talk show on German TV tonight. The Hamburg-based British musician's 50-minute show, called simply ...with Hope!, is being broadcast on ZDFkultur. Hope's guests for the first programme are Sting and pianist Hélène Grimaud. The new show follows Hope's stints earlier this ...
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma stars in Chicago festival
Yo-Yo Ma joined Riccardo Muti and several youth music ensembles for a performance in Chicago on Sunday that marked the end of the 11-day Chicago Youth in Music Festival.Ma, a creative consultant to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and one of the figures helping to drive the orchestra's community ...
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Calidore Quartet scoops Fischoff prizes at Indiana competition
The Calidore Quartet won the grand prize and the senior string division gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. The quartet, whose players are students at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, received $7,500 for the grand prize, and $3,000 for the gold medal. ...
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Concertmasters back Broadway call for live music
New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra assistant concertmaster Laura Hamilton are backing a call to keep musicians playing in Broadway musicals. The Save Live Music on Broadway campaign has been launched by the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 and is being sponsored by the non-profit ...
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South Korean luthier Min Sung Kim wins Wieniawski Violin Making Competition
South Korean luthier Min Sung Kim has won first prize at the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Pozna?, Poland. He also took fourth prize for another of his instruments, and won the prize for best set-up. Marcus Klimke from Germany was awarded second prize, plus prizes for workmanship and ...
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Beaux Arts Trio founding cellist Bernard Greenhouse dies aged 95
American cellist Bernard Greenhouse, one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio, has died at his home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, at the age of 95. He played in the acclaimed piano trio from its formation in 1955 until his retirement in 1987, making more than 100 recordings, and ...
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Violinists including Tasmin Little and Vilde Frang dominate Classical Brits
Tasmin Little and Vilde Frang were among the winners at the Classical Brit Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Little picked up the Critics' Award for her 2010 recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto. Norwegian violinist Frang, 24, won the Newcomer Award. There was also success for ...
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Indie film starring violinist Philippe Quint to have New York screening
Downtown Express, a new feature film starring Philippe Quint, will have its world premiere at Symphony Space in New York on 7 June. In the film, Quint plays Sasha, a Russian violinist on a scholarship to the Juilliard School. Defying his overbearing cellist father, Sasha is drawn to New York's ...
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Mayor pledges 400 music scholarships for young Londoners
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, has launched a new music charity to help children in the capital with their music education. The Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians will raise £2m by March 2012, which will provide 400 children aged 7–11 with four-year music scholarships. These children will receive small-group ...
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Royal Scottish National Orchestra recruits leaders
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has appointed James Clark and Maya Iwabuchi as concertmasters. It will be the first shared leadership in the orchestra's 120-year history. Clark will combine his new role with his position at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where he has been leader since 2005. Iwabuchi ...
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Library of Congress puts up 10,000 Victor recordings from 1901–25 for streaming
The Library of Congress has made more than 10,000 historic sound recordings available for the public to stream for free. Its new National Jukebox gives users access to recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. String music highlights include Kreisler performing the Intermezzo from Thaïs, ...
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Takács Quartet and violinist Alina Ibragimova win Royal Philharmonic Society awards
The Takács Quartet and violinist Alina Ibragimova were among the winners of the 2011 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, which acknowledge achievements in live classical music during 2010. The Takács Quartet, which gave a complete Beethoven quartets cycle at the Southbank Centre in 2009–10, won in the Chamber Music and ...
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Britain's Got Talent violinist apologises for playing along to track by Bond
A violinist on Britain's Got Talent has apologised after playing along to a track by the all-female electric string quartet Bond on the UK TV show. Bond member Eos Chater had criticised violinist Alexandra Parker for simply playing along to a recording of Gypsy Rhapsody, rather than playing live over ...
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Music publisher Boosey & Hawkes puts scores online
Classical music publishing giant Boosey & Hawkes has launched an online service allowing users to study more than 400 scores for free. Visitors who register with the publisher's website will be able to peruse orchestral, opera and large ensemble scores from the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue. Among the contemporary works ...
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Police recover San Francisco Conservatory student's violin
Police in San Francisco have arrested a man suspected of stealing a music student's Caressa & Français violin. The thief had taken the $23,000 instrument from a practice room at San Francisco Conservatory on 26 April but was identified and traced after footage was released of him making his getaway ...
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Student's $23,000 violin taken from San Francisco Conservatory
Police are hunting a thief who made off with a San Francisco Conservatory student's $23,000 violin. The student had left the instrument, a Caressa & Français from the early 1900s, in a Conservatory practice room while she checked her emails in the computer lab. A light-haired man apparently walked in ...
