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NewsGrand Teton Music Festival announces Simon Woods as interim executive director
News follows the resignation of president and CEO Andrew Palmer Todd in December
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Hilary Hahn marks 30 years since her debut solo recital aged ten
‘I built up to it for months, and I’ll never forget it,’ says the American violinist
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Important Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin returns to the stage after 30 years
The c.1744 ‘Leduc, Szeryng’ is to be loaned exclusively to the German-American violinist Augustin Hadelich
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen appointed Artistic Director of Two Moors Festival
The violinist has been appointed Artistic Director for the festival’s 20th anniversary season
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Double bass cracked after United Airlines flight
Louis Levitt, a member of Sybarite5, has reported damage to his instrument following a United Airlines flight
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Coronavirus latest: Hong Kong Arts Festival cancelled
The Shanghai Quartet is among the string ensembles to be affected by the announcement
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Cellist–composer Hildur Guðnadóttir wins Best Score Oscar
The Icelandic composer’s score for Joker featured her own cello playing
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Winners named in 2020 Sphinx Competition
Gabriel Martins takes $50,000 first prize in senior division while Esme Arias-Kim wins the junior section
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Musicians’ instruments confiscated at Domodedovo Airport, despite having passports
Two violinists from the Moscow Philharmonic have their instruments confiscated by Customs at Domodedovo Airport, despite both having passports
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Clarissa Bevilacqua wins International Mozart Competition
The 18-year-old takes home €11,000 in prize money at the Salzburg-based contest
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Luthiers sans Frontieres UK heads to Malawi
Organisation plans to establish a fully-equipped workshop in the city of Blantyre
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Coraline Groen, new 2nd violinist of Concertgebouw, wins Netherlands Violin Competition
The 24 year-old-violinist, who has just started as a second violinist in the Concertgebouw, has won the Netherlands Violin Competition
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Dwight Shambley, founder of Dallas Symphony’s Young Strings, has died
Double bassist founded education programme to address diversity imbalance in professional orchestras
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Jan Vogler’s contract as director of the Dresden Music Festival is extended
Jan Vogler is to remain director of the Dresden Music Festival
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Boston Symphony Orchestra cancels East Asia tour over coronavirus concerns
Decision follows government agency advice and consultations with the tour’s presenters
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Prizes announced at the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation string quartet competition
The competition is open to young European ensembles
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Coronavirus threatens Boston Symphony Orchestra tour to Asia
US issues Level 3 warning advising against ‘all non-essential travel to China’
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Violist Tabea Zimmermann wins 2020 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
German musician praised for bringing the viola ‘into the consciousness of the contemporary music world’
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Juilliard string faculty appoints two new double bassists
Joseph H. Conyers and Rex Surany join the faculty from this spring semester
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Violin played by woman in Auschwitz given new life by Yehudi Menuhin School pupils
18-year-old Kingsley Lin and 17-year-old Ezo Dem Sarici now play the instrument, once belonging to a member of the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra
