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NewsViolinist Karen Gomyo signs with IMG Artists and Enticott Music Management
Gomyo joins the roster for general worldwide management
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VideoPrizes awarded at 42nd Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition
Chinese violinist Ziling Guo took first prize of €10,000, a violin and future concert engagements
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NewsFinalists announced for 2023 Freedman Classical Fellowship
Three finalists will showcase career-defining projects for the chance to win the AUD21,000 prize
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NewsWynton Marsalis receives 2023 Praemium Imperiale for Music
The musician, bandleader and composer wrote his Violin Concerto in 2019 for Nicola Benedetti
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NewsViolinist Fedor Rudin appointed professor at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts
The 30-year-old will take up the post as professor for orchestral education next month
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NewsNew appointments at Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The six new members include assistant principal second violin, three bass players, principal horn and principal librarian
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NewsDouble bassist Valentina Ciardelli appointed professor at Trinity Laban
The bassist, composer, performer and visual artist starts her new role in September 2023
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis October 2023: Climate change and tonewood
The past summer has seen catastrophic heatwaves strike almost all of Europe. What effect have they had on the forests of spruce and maple that tonewood dealers depend on?
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News‘They send us garbage and we send back music’ - Orchestra of landfill instruments to accept award in Cremona
A social initiative to overcome poverty in Paraguay, the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura will attend Cremona Musica International Exhibitions And Festival next week, showcasing its instruments made from landfill materials
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NewsCellist Joy Hall has died, aged 102
The British cellist featured on ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ by The Beatles and was a prolific performer and pedagogue
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NewsThe Strad October 2023 issue is out now!
The players of the Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet speak to Peter Somerford about their future ambitions in our cover feature
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NewsCarpe Diem Quartet appoints new first violinist
Sam Weiser takes up the role in the quartet’s 18th season, effective immediately
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NewsNew York Philharmonic receives $40 million gift
The largest-ever single contribution to the NY Phil from Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang will establish the artistic director chair and expand the orchestra’s future programming and engagement
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NewsWinners announced at 2023 Bartók World Competition
Lilia Pocitari took the top prize of €22,000, as well as the prize for best performance of the compulsory contemporary piece
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NewsAlexander Quartet announces new second violinist
Yuna Lee succeeds Fred Lifsitz, who retired from the group earlier this year
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NewsMalawian one-man band creates and performs on his own unique one-stringed instrument
Gasper Nali’s Babatoni is played sliding a beer bottle along the string and struck with a stick
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NewsUS double bassist Richard Davis dies aged 93
The American musician was also a highly regarded pedagogue at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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NewsNew Stradivari exhibition to open in Cremona
’Il Mistero di Stradivari’ will show how the legend of the master luthier was created and enhanced in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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NewsWinners announced at 2023 ARD International Music Competition
This year’s contest saw winners in the piano trio, viola and double bass categories
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NewsSearching for the ideal bow: Archet x Bunkyo Gakki
In celebration of Archet’s 40th anniversary, a new documentary highlights the collaboration between violinist Fumiaki Miura and bow maker Kunitaka Ohse