Latest news – Page 249
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NewsThe Strad August 2014 issue is out now
The issue marks the centenary of World War I with a music and conflict theme
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NewsViolinist Shlomo Mintz named Queensland Symphony Orchestra soloist-in-residence
The artist will join the orchestra as its inaugural resident soloist in 2015
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra musicians to appear in ‘Addicts' Symphony' documentary
The programme, to be broadcast on Channel 4 in August, features LSO Discovery's work with ten addicts
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NewsTop lots from June London and Vichy stringed instrument auctions
Gaglianos and a Peccatte shone in the sales
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NewsGerman radio orchestra merger looking increasingly likely
The Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra are set to unite in 2016
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NewsVideo: Violinist Itzhak Perlman campaigns for universal polio vaccination
The artist contracted the disease when he was four years old
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NewsConductor, composer and violinist Lorin Maazel has died aged 84
The American maestro forged an international career for 75 years
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NewsUK lutherie student receives Special Award from Rowan Armour-Brown Memorial Trust
The inaugural award recognises students of particular potential
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NewsViolinist Nicola Benedetti breaks UK chart top 20 with her new album
Not since Vanessa Mae and Nigel Kennedy has a solo British violinist featured in the top 20 pop chart
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NewsCharles Castleman appointed professor of violin at Miami's Frost School of Music
The violinist is currently a professor at the Eastman School of Music in New York
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NewsUniversity of Michigan appoints violinist Danielle Belen to its string faculty
The musician is a seasoned pedagogue and member of the Colburn School violin faculty
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News1710 ‘Ivashkin' Guarneri cello loaned to Canadian Korean artist Soo Bae
The instrument was previously on permanent loan to the late Russian cellist Alexander Ivashkin
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NewsViolinist and sex abuse victim Frances Andrade was in ‘incredible despair', inquest hears
The 48-year-old musician took her own life after giving evidence against former Chetham's School of Music teacher Michael Brewer
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NewsViolinist Ziyu He wins 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians competition
The 15-year-old performed Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in the final
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NewsStudy finds childhood musical training enhances cognitive brain function
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital say a minimum of two years of private lessons boosts ‘executive functioning'
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NewsSingapore launches $50,000 triennial International Violin Competition
Applications are now open for the event, designed to discover major new talent
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NewsFrench postal service reports cello bow lost and then has the item auctioned
The €2,800 bow had been made for a member of the Paris Opera
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NewsViolinist and stringed instrument expert Staffan Borseman has died aged 60
A respected former concertmaster, the artist was founder of Stradivari Invest and creator of the Leopold bow
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NewsChicago Chamber Musicians disband due to financial difficulties
The society of 13 musicians was founded in 1986
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NewsAmerican violinist Janet Packer has died aged 64
The contemporary music advocate was president of the Pro Violino Foundation
