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Viol consort in shock after founding member Richard Campbell dies
The early music community is mourning the loss of Richard Campbell, best known as a founder member of leading viol consort Fretwork. According to his obituary in the Guardian, Campbell died unexpectedly at his home in Cornwall last week at the age of 55. His death came as Fretwork was ...
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BBC Philharmonic flies home after being caught up in Japan earthquake
The Manchester-based BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is on its way back to the UK after cancelling the last four concerts on its Japanese tour. The musicians were travelling by coach from their hotel in Tokyo to a concert hall in Yokohama when Friday's earthquake struck. Video shot by violinist Simon Robertshaw ...
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Violist Philip Dukes to play the 'Archinto' Stradivari in London
Violist Philip Dukes is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his first recital at London's Purcell Room by returning there to perform on 20 March, and he will be playing on a special instrument – the 'Archinto' Stradivari of 1696. One of the few surviving Stradivari violas, the 'Archinto' has ...
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Cellist Austin Huntington wins Stulberg Competition in Kalamazoo
Sixteen-year-old cellist Austin Huntingdon has won first prize at the Stulberg International String Competition in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Huntington, who studies with Richard Hirschl and attends St Joseph's High School in South Bend, Indiana, received $5,000. He also won the $500 Bach Award. Violinists Mayumi Kanagawa and Christine Lim, both 16, ...
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Russian violinist and violist wins Salzburg International Mozart Competition
Sergey Malov won first prize in the violin division of this year's International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. The 27-year-old Russian violinist and violist received €10,000. Second prize went to Ying Xue from China. German violinist Sarah Christian took third prize.
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Funding campaign seeks backers for violin concerto
Music charity London Music Masters (LMM) is seeking supporters to help fund the creation of a new violin concerto by British composer Martin Suckling. The organisation, which provides music education in inner-city primary schools and a violin award scheme for young professional players, needs to raise £4,250 by the end ...
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US violinist Eugene Fodor dies aged 60
Eugene Fodor died on Saturday, of cirrhosis, his wife has told the New York Times. Fodor made his debut aged ten, playing the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and later studied at the Juilliard School, Indiana University and the University of Southern California. His teachers included Ivan ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov launches UNICEF campaign
Violinist Maxim Vengerov has launched UNICEF’s campaign in Armenia, ‘Every Child Needs a Family’. He kicked off the campaign during a masterclass for members of UNICEF’s Children’s Chamber Orchestra in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan.The campaign hopes to get public support to return around 4,000 children in special boarding schools and orphanages ...
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Japanese violinist and teacher David Takeno wins ABO award
Tokyo-born violinist and teacher David Takeno is the winner of this year’s Association of British Orchestras (ABO) Award. The presentation was made at the Derby Assembly Rooms on 17 February as part of the ABO annual conference. Takeno, who holds the post of Eugène Ysaÿe international chair of violin ...
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Violinist Nicola Benedetti warns against arts funding cuts
Violinist Nicola Benedetti has warned that the UK government’s spending cuts could stop arts students from poorer backgrounds from going to university. Speaking at the launch of the Nicola Benedetti Scholarship Fund, which will support students taking Italian Studies at Edinburgh University, she is reported by Deadline News as commenting, ...
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ISM fights for music in schools
The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) has launched a campaign to get music included on the new English Baccalaureate. The society is asking its members and those working in the music sector to write to the Education Select Committee of the House of Commons, urging the government to include the ...
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Polish cellist Tomasz Daroch wins Lutos?awski Cello Competition
Tomasz Daroch has won first prize in the 8th Witold Lutos?awski International Cello Competition. The 22-year-old Pole, who studies with Michael Flaksman at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, Germany, was awarded €6,000. Second prize went to fellow Pole Magdalena Bojanowicz, third prize to ...
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Jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding beats Justin Bieber to Grammy
In an major triumph for the string world, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding beat Justin Bieber – the teenage pop artist with millions of fans worldwide – to win as Best New Artist at the 2011 Grammy Awards. The ceremony took place on 13 February at the Staples Center, Los Angeles. ...
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The New York Philharmonic Orchestra archive goes live
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra has launched the first phase of an ongoing digital archive project. The International Era 1943–1970 is the first tranche of the orchestra’s extensive archives to go online, and thousands of documents are now available to view. These include conducting scores marked by Leonard Bernstein, André ...
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Violinist and violist Philipp Naegele dies aged 83
Violinist and violist Philipp Naegele has died aged 83. Born in Stuttgart in 1928, he fled the Nazi regime, going first to England on the Kindertransport in 1939, and then settling with his family in New York City in 1940. Violin lessons and academic studies there led to a doctorate ...
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Violist Paul Laraia wins Sphinx Competition
Violist Paul Laraia has won first prize in the senior division at the Sphinx Competition for Black and Latino string players. The 21-year-old, who studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory in Boston, received $10,000, a series of concert engagements and a CD recording opportunity with Naxos. ...
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Two new concertmasters for Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has appointed a concertmaster and co-concertmaster to share the leader's chair left vacant since Emanuel Borok retired last August. The two new leaders will join the orchestra for the start of the 2011–12 season. Kerr, who has held concertmaster positions at the Cincinnati, Charleston and ...
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British violinist and concertmaster Raymond Cohen dies aged 91
British violinist Raymond Cohen, the last leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to be appointed by Thomas Beecham, has died aged 91. Cohen won a scholarship at 14 to study at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and at 15 began playing with the Hallé Orchestra as its youngest ever ...
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Violin making drama seeks funding
A UK filmmaker has launched an appeal via campaigns website IndieGoGo for funding for his next project, a film about a reclusive young man with a passion for violin making. Writer-director Dan Smyth from Manchester has secured financing from the UK Film Council, but needs to part-match it to the ...
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André P. Larson to step down as National Music Museum executive director
André P. Larson, the founder and executive director of the National Music Museum in South Dakota, is to retire on 23 February. He established the museum, located on the University of South Dakota campus in Vermillion, in 1973. Among his major achievements was acquiring the Witten-Rawlins collection of rare Italian ...
