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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: October 2019
Anna Agafia Egholm COMPETITION RESULTS The Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Sion, Switzerland, awarded its first prize to 23-year-old Danish violinist Anna Agafia Egholm . A former student of Svetlana Makarova at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne, Egholm also won the ...
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Anne-Sophie Mutter receives 2019 Praemium Imperiale
The German violinist is one of five recipients of the annually-awarded €130,000 prize
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Chloë Hanslip Appointed As London’s Royal Academy Visiting Professor
Royal Academy of Music announces the appointment of violinist Chloë Hanslip as Visiting Professor
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Baltimore Musicians postpone season-opening concerts as they continue strike
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concerts are postponed amid continued strike action
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2nd round candidates announced at Zhuhai Competition
The Zhuhai International Mozart Competition has announced the violin category candidates progressing to its 2nd round
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Haruma Sato wins 2019 ARD cello competition
Japanese 21-year-old wins €10,000 cash prize plus a number of performance invitations
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Malcolm Lowe retires as Boston Symphony Concertmaster
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced Malcolm Lowe’s retirement, effective immediately
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Janine Jansen cancels, Simone Lamsma steps in at Concertgebouw
Season opening night tomorrow gets last-minute soloist sub due to illness
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Bernard Haitink has officially conducted last performance
The 90-year-old conductor has conducted his last concert before entering his official retirement
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja wins Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland’s Würth Prize
Patricia Kopatchinskaja receives the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, endowed with €15,000
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Simon Wiener wins International Johannes Brahms Competition
The 25-year-old violinist receives €2500
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ARD competition names cello finalists
Three finalists named in Bavarian Radio competition which offers cash prizes and performance invitations
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Goldmund Quartet picks up €60k award – plus a full set of Strads
German group is new recipient of Paganini quartet from Nippon Foundation and award from Jürgen Ponto Foundation
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All-male cello semi-final at ARD competition in Munich
Six semi-finalists named in Bavarian Radio competition which offers cash prizes and numerous performance opportunities
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Harbin Competition names violin section winners
Ming Liu, 24, from Shanghai, has won the $50,000 first prize in the Chinese event’s second edition
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Applications open for Nicola Benedetti string workshops
First ‘Benedetti Sessions’ to take place in Glasgow, London, Dundee, Antrim, Manchester and Saffron Walden
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Cellist suffers damage worth €3876 to his cello after Azul Airlines flight
Pablo Schinke suffers three fractures to his cello during flight despite checking in the instrument as fragile baggage
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Deutsche Grammophon unveils Beethoven 2020 campaign
The yellow label has revealed plans for its campaign to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth
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Philharmonia appoints joint concertmaster
The Philharmonia Orchestra has appointed Benjamin Marquise Gilmore as one of its two concertmasters
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Hilary Hahn begins year-long sabbatical
The violinist has taken a year off with no particular plans, but has a full season booked in 2020-21
