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Vuillaume 'Evangelists' quartet to be loaned as competition prize
A matched quartet of instruments by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume is the prize in a new quartet competition. The contest, open to quartets with an average age of up to 28, is set to conclude on 13 July 2010 with the finals held at London's Wigmore Hall. The winning quartet will receive ...
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Public outcry as EMI plans to sell Abbey Road studios used by Menuhin and Elgar
Reacting to reports that EMI has put its Abbey Road recording studios up for sale, Britain's National Trust is asking the public whether the studios should be saved. In a statement on its website, the National Trust said: 'If there is enough momentum, we may launch a campaign to save ...
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Violinist and cellists win Yamaha prizes
Violinist Jiafeng Chen and cellists Mikhail Nemtsov and Yoshika Masuda were the winning finalists in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship Awards in London. Each received a prize of £2,000. Chen, 22, studies with Jan Repko at the Royal College of Music in London. Masuda, 23, and Nemtsov, 22, ...
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Borletti-Buitoni Trust success for Elias and Pavel Haas quartets
The Elias Quartet and the Pavel Haas Quartet are among the winners of this year's Borletti-Buitoni Trust awards. The UK-based Elias Quartet received a £30,000 award, and the Pavel Haas Quartet from the Czech Republic won a Special Ensemble Scholarship worth £20,000.
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Violinist André Rieu's album reaches no.2 in UK pop charts
André Rieu's album Forever Vienna has climbed to no.2 in the British pop charts, the highest position ever reached by a classical instrumentalist. The recording features the Dutch violinist and his Johann Strauss Orchestra in popular Strauss waltzes, polkas and other dances. Rieu's no.2 spot surpasses the no.3 place achieved ...
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Violinists Gareth Johnson and Randall Goosby take top awards at Detroit Sphinx competition
Violinists Randall Goosby and Gareth Johnson have taken top honours at the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino string players. Goosby won the $5,000 first prize in the junior division. The 13-year-old from Bartlett, Tennessee, is a student of Philippe Quint. Johnson, 24, was awarded $10,000 and a CD ...
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Soviet-trained violinist Nelli Shkolnikova dies in Melbourne
Violinist Nelli Shkolnikova has died in Australia. Born in the Ukraine in 1928, Shkolnikova studied with Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatoire. She launched her international career after winning first prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition in 1953. She made three tours to the US, appearing at Lincoln Center and with ...
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Violinist and cellist triumph at Unisa competition in South Africa
Yura Lee and Georgi Anichenko won the violin and cello categories respectively at the Unisa International String Competition in Pretoria, South Africa. The 24-year-old Lee, from South Korea, played the Tchaikovsky Concerto in the final. Anichenko, also 24, from Belarus, won with his performance of the Dvorák Cello Concerto. Each ...
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Scottish fiddler Daniel Thorpe crowned Young Traditional Musician of the Year
Fiddler Daniel Thorpe has been named BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year. The 23-year-old from Inverurie in Aberdeenshire is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The award includes performance opportunities and the chance to record a CD.
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Violists Alexander Akimov and Peijun Zu share top prize at viola competition
The Yuri Bashmet International Viola Competition in Moscow has ended with joint winners of the first prize. Alexander Akimov of Russia and Peijun Xu from China split the 300,000 rouble ($10,000) award. Akimov, 27, is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra. The ...
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Grammy wins for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Emerson Quartet
The Grammy winners were announced yesterday in Los Angeles. The Emerson Quartet won Best Chamber Music Performance for Intimate Letters, its disc of Czech quartets. Best Classical Crossover Album went to cellist Yo-Yo Ma for Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace.
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New pay deal for Seattle Symphony
Musicians at the Seattle Symphony have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. They have accepted a five per cent cut in pay until the end of this season, with the current pay scale resuming in 2011. Each of the 84 players will also contribute $2,010 towards the orchestra's ...
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Cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht to write for The Strad
The veteran journalist and string-music lover Norman Lebrecht will be casting his acerbic eye over the string world in a new monthly opinion piece, starting with the March issue of The Strad. The column will be in the magazine only but the conversation will open out on our website. ...
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Curtis Quartet cellist Orlando Cole dies aged 101
Cellist Orlando Cole has died at the age of 101. He studied at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute with Felix Salmond, and went on to teach there for more than 50 years - among his students were Lynn Harrell and Lorne Munroe. As a member of the Curtis Quartet, Cole toured the ...
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Argentine violinist and conductor Alberto Lysy dies in Lausanne aged 74
Argentine violinist, conductor and teacher Alberto Lysy has died aged 74. He was a student of Menuhin, with whom he premiered Malcolm Arnold's Concerto for Two Violins and recorded Bach's Double Concerto. Lysy went on to honour his mentor by co-founding the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad in 1977. ...
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The Strad launches new website
Welcome to The Strad's new website. As well as a fresh look, the site now offers new features such as videos and easy one-click access to articles, competitions, directories and our official Twitter feed. There are also more opportunities for you to post your comments on news stories and our ...
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Brienz making school in Switzerland wins state award
The Geigenbauschule Brienz, the only specialist violin making school in Switzerland, has received the canton of Bern's 2009 Culture Prize. The award is 30,000 Swiss francs (about £18,000). The school, which is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, was awarded a culture prize of 100,000 Swiss francs in 2001 from ...
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Viollinist Ronald Birks joins Chilingirian Quartet
The Chilingirian Quartet has appointed Ronald Birks as its new second violinist, replacing Richard Ireland. Birks was formerly second violinist in The Lindsays, the British quartet that disbanded in 2005.
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German cellist Christine Rauh wins Isang Yun contest
Christine Rauh, a 25-year-old cellist from Germany, has won first prize at the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong, Korea. Rauh, a graduate student of Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin, was awarded $30,000. Jee-Hye Bae of Korea took the $20,000 second prize. The third prize, of $10,000, went to Matthew Zalkind ...
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Japanese cellist Dai Miyata wins Rostropovich prize
Dai Miyata, a 23-year-old cellist from Japan, has won the first prize at the Concours Rostropovich in Paris. Miyata earned 10,000 euros for his victory. Jacob Koranyi, from Sweden, took second prize. Third prize went to Norbert Anger of Germany. The Concours Rostropovich, one of the world's leading cello competitions, ...
