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NewsQuartet finalists at the Nielsen Chamber Music Competition
Event in Copenhagen ends this evening with three ensembles vying for €15,000 first prize and list of engagements
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Cello stolen on Paris-Le Mans train
The instrument, built by Parisian luthier Charles Coquet in 2012, was taken yesterday afternoon
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Semi-finalists named at Nielsen Chamber Music Competition
Event in Copenhagen puts five quartets through to second round taking place on Friday
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The Strad November 2019 issue is out now
American violinist Sarah Chang on her 30-year career and taking on more chamber and contemporary projects
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Analysis: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In these environmentally aware times, players will be conscious of the long-term impact of the strings they’re using. What are manufacturers doing to set their minds at rest? Peter Somerford finds out
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Competitions and Award Winners: November
Chinese violinist Ming Liu , 24, has won China’s Harbin International Music Competition . She receives $50,000. Liu studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Vera Tsu Weiling. Second prize went to Sinying Chan, 22, from Hong Kong, and third prize to Haram Kim, 21, from South Korea. ...
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Influential Italian luthier Renato Scrollavezza has died
Born in poverty and initially self taught, he went on to mentor generations of violin makers at his lutherie school in Parma
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Nielsen Chamber Music Competition begins in Copenhagen
Seven string quartets and eight wind quintets compete this week in the second edition of the competition
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Prizes awarded at 5th Karol Lipiński Violin Competition
Event in Toruń, Poland, hands out €50,000 in cash prizes
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Cellist protest at British Airways check-in desk
Musicians stranded at Basel airport following booking problems give impromptu performance
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Hollywood Bowl Orchestra names new concertmaster
Kathryn Eberle steps into chair which has remained vacant for over a year following death of Katia Popov
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Takács Quartet to welcome new violist in 2020
As the group celebrates its 45th year, Richard O’Neill will take over from Geraldine Walther
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Laureates named at Mazzacurati International Cello competition
Dutch cellist Anton Spronk takes the Turin event’s first prize, plust audience and orchestra awards
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Renaud Capuçon raises €100,000 for Notre Dame
The violinist and friends went on a tour of six French cathedrals with proceeds going to the restoration
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Orchestra of St. Luke’s appoints new violist
Katarzyna Bryla-Weiss has regularly freelanced with the orchestra over the last seven seasons
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Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Maria Azova has been appointed as the ensemble’s 1st Concertmaster
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Anne-Sophie Mutter speaks out on mobile phone filming incident
‘Then she takes out a second phone, and a power bank … I’m totally out of the flow, ’ violinist tells the New York Times
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Cellist, violist and trio among the 2019 Concert Artists Guild winners
New York recital and management contract are part of package for winners of the Victor Elmaleh Competition
