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NewsNew Holocaust documentary features music performed on a violin that survived Auschwitz
The documentary film The Lost Music of Auschwitz commemorates 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp
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News13-year-old violinist wins $20k first prize at Cooper International Competition
Swiss violinist Edna Unseld scooped an impressive prize package, which also includes a two-year loan of an Italian violin, career mentorship and a future performance engagement
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NewsThe string winners of the 2025 International Classical Music Awards
Violinist Gidon Kremer is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award
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NewsRadio France appoints principal viola
A member of the orchestra since 2005, Aurelia Souvignet-Kowalski assumes the new role
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NewsLA Phil cancels concerts, as musicians lose homes in wildfires
The ongoing fires continue to affect the orchestra’s musicians and staff, while a fundraiser has been set up to help an LA Phil violinist whose home was lost in the Eaton Fire
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NewsBritish dendrochronologist John Topham has died
The Mittenwald-trained luthier was sought by museums around the world, auctioneers and dealerships for his dendrochronological examinations
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NewsPremio Paganini: 70 years of violin excellence
Find out everything you need to know and apply for the 58th edition of the Premio Paganini, which will take place from 14 to 26 October 2025 in Genoa
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NewsHandwritten manuscript of a Beethoven string quartet movement returns to Bonn, 200 years after composition
Beethoven-Haus Bonn has acquired the autograph manuscript of the fourth movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet op.130 ’Alla Danza tedesca’, which was confiscated by Nazis from the Petschek family during the Second World War
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News£100k up for grabs in Continuo Foundation’s latest grants for early music projects
Grants will support projects taking place in the UK from May to October 2025 for period-instrument ensembles, with categories for established and emerging groups
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NewsYCAT invites applications for 2025 cohort
Successful artists will receive performance opportunities, bespoke management and career support for three to five years
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NewsTime for Three’s bassist signs with Opus 3 Artists
Ranaan Meyer is the sole double bassist on Opus 3 Artists’ roster
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NewsBritish studio concertmaster Perry Montague-Mason has died
The violinist, whose recording career was bookended with the soundtracks of two Gladiator films 25 years apart, was 68
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis January 2025: 3D-printing technology in lutherie
The possibilities for violin makers afforded by 3D-printing technology are limitless, as a new exhibition in Cremona shows – but is there a danger of the knowledge being misused?
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NewsViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers withdraws from performances due to Los Angeles fires
The US violinist was due to perform with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra this weekend
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NewsAustralian Chamber Orchestra brings in new full-time violinist
Australian violinist Tim Yu has joined the award-winning chamber ensemble
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NewsThe Argus Quartet welcomes two new members
Violinist Sam Parrini and cellist Drake Driscoll replace departing founding violinist Clara Kim and cellist Mariel Roberts
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NewsCellist Mischa Maisky announces post-surgery return
The concert engagement follows six months of rehabilitation
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NewsObituary: Violinist Ayla Erduran (1934-2025)
A pioneering Turkish violinist who performed widely around the world and whose career spanned many decades has died at the age of 90
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NewsThe Royal Conservatoire of Scotland receives Gasparo da Salò cello
The cello comes as a bequest by the late cellist Vivien Mackie
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NewsElster Trio wins the Polytechnical Society eV Chamber Music prize
The Frankfurt-based ensemble receives €5,000
