Latest news – Page 245
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NewsLufthansa airline loses cello, says musician
Lachezar Kostov was forced to perform several concerts on borrowed instruments before being reunited with his cello
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NewsViolinist In Mo Yang wins 2014 Concert Artists Guild Competition
The Korean musician receives $5,000 and two years of management
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NewsNorthern Ireland’s Ulster Orchestra faces imminent closure, warns chairman
The ensemble has appealed for £500,000 in emergency funding from Belfast City Council
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NewsSingapore’s inaugural $50,000 International Violin Competition names 35 shortlisted candidates
The participants from 14 countries will perform in nine live rounds in January 2015
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NewsLondon stringed instrument dealer J & A Beare launches its first exclusively online auction
The initial sale features 37 instruments, including a Stradivarius violin and two Guadagninis
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NewsOrpheus Chamber Orchestra receives $400,000 from Andrew W Mellon Foundation
The ensemble will use the grant to launch ‘Next Generation Orpheus’
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NewsCellist and conductor Mats Rondin has died aged 54
The Swedish musician was formerly principal cellist of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony
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NewsGerman luthier Andreas Haensel wins gold and silver in Pisogne
The maker won for two of his instruments at the 5th International Violin Making Competition
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NewsVienna Philharmonic to invest $1m Birgit Nilsson Prize in Historical Archives
The award is the largest of its kind in the field of classical music
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NewsItalian violinist Angelo Stefanato has died aged 88
The artist and teacher was concertmaster of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin for 15 years
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NewsDaniele Gatti named Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra chief conductor
He succeeds Mariss Jansons, who departs from the role in March 2015
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NewsSimon Blendis appointed joint leader of London Mozart Players
The violinist is a regular concertmaster with leading UK orchestras
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NewsAir Canada reverses its policy on the transportation of violas as carry-on baggage
The company has issued a response to The Strad’s news story reporting on the discrepancy between its rules for violins and violas
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NewsRome Opera dismisses 182 employees of orchestra and chorus
The company hopes to save €3.4m by using an external ensemble as required
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NewsSotheby's to sell rare portrait miniature of 21-year-old Mozart
The sale marks the first time the image has been reproduced in colour for the wider public
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NewsViolinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Leonidas Kavakos to feature in free online broadcasts from Carnegie Hall
A series of four performances will be webcast through a partnership with medici.tv
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NewsViolins allowed as carry-on baggage, but violas must be checked into the hold, says Air Canada
The airline has published detailed regulations for the transportation of musical instruments on its website
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NewsVideo: violinist Joshua Bell's second Washington DC Metro performance draws large crowds
Unlike 2007's anonymous busking experiment, the virtuoso this time announced his appearance in advance
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NewsFormer Chetham's School of Music violin teacher charged with rape and indecent assault
The charges against Wen Zhou Li, who also taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, date back to the 1990s
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NewsViolinist Augustin Hadelich performs ‘America the Beautiful' at his naturalisation ceremony
The German artist has lived in the US for the past ten years
