Latest news – Page 13
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NewsTop job for Top: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Violinist Tjeerd Top departs the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to take up the leading role in Rotterdam
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NewsShortlists for 2025 RPS Awards include top string players
Cellist Laura van der Heijden and violinist Leia Zhu are among those nominated for this year’s RPS Awards to be held 6 March
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NewsRNCM announces winners of award supporting disabled and neurodiverse musicians
The Lucy Hale Award, worth £5,000, will help support a violist with hypermobility and a baritone horn player with hearing loss
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NewsCellist Yo-Yo Ma performs in the snow above Davos
The cellist performed atop Schatzalp above Davos during the World Economic Forum, with the aim to raise awareness about climate change and glacier preservation
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NewsLaurence Lesser establishes new string scholarship in memory of his wife, Masuko Ushioda
New England Conservatory’s Masuko Ushioda Dean’s Scholarship Fund will provide financial support to promising string students that embody the musical motivation of Ushioda, who died in 2013
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NewsLSO bids farewell to co-leader, Carmine Lauri
Violinist Carmine Lauri leaves the orchestra after nearly 30 years to return to his home country of Malta
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NewsAviv Quartet appoints new second violinist
Brandon Garbot joins the ensemble, replacing Philippe Villafranca
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NewsResults announced for the 2025 Tertis and Aronowitz International Viola Competitions
Violists Sam Rosenthal and Xunyu Zhou receive the £5,000 first prizes
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News2025 Sphinx Competition winners announced
A total of six string players from both the junior and senior divisions have won more than $100,000 in prizes in the 2025 competition’s final rounds over the weekend
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NewsViolins of Hope instruments feature on new album commemorating 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
The instruments that formerly belonged to Holocaust survivors can be heard on Violins of Hope from The Daniel Pelton Collective, which strives to provide a stark reminder of atrocities of the past in an aim to shape better future
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NewsOscar nomination for documentary celebrating the NY Phil’s first full-time female musician
The Only Girl in the Orchestra has received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short film
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NewsFinalists announced for 2025 Sphinx Competition
Three string players from both the junior and senior divisions will compete for a total of more than $100,000 in prizes in the final rounds this weekend
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NewsFinalists selected for 2025 Tertis and Aronowitz International Viola Competitions
Three violists from each competition will perform in the final rounds taking place on Saturday 25 January
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NewsNew documentary commemorates Jacqueline du Pré ahead of her upcoming 80th anniversary
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy by Allegro Films will premiere on PBS America platforms from 24 January
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NewsObituary: violist Eric Sargon (1928 - 2025)
The violist was a long-standing member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and recorded with The Beatles
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NewsAnimato Quartet wins the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation Competition
The Animato Quartet won €12,000 plus a future engagment at the 2026 Heidelberg Spring String Quartet Festival
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NewsWinners announced for the 2025 Sphinx Orchestral Partners Auditions Excerpt Competition
Violinist Allison Lovera wins the $3,500 in the Strings and Harp category
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NewsTertis and Aronowitz Viola Competitions announces semi-finalists for 2025
Eight violists from each competition have progressed to play for spot in the final round this weekend
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NewsViolinist James Ehnes extends contract with Seattle Chamber Music Society
The violinist will serve as the Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling artistic director through 2032
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NewsObituary: British violin maker Peter Voigt
The Sussex-based luthier enjoyed a 67-year career restoring stringed instruments and was also a keen amateur motor racer
