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ArticleRemainder of Minnesota Orchestra's 2012–13 season is cancelled
The management of the Minnesota Orchestra has announced that the remaining five concerts of the current season have been cancelled. This means that the musicians, who have been locked out since 1 October 2012, will have played none of the scheduled concerts by the end of the ...
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ArticleNearly 40 Manchester music teachers under investigation after abuse claims
Police are investigating 39 teachers from the two leading music schools in Manchester, UK, following allegations of historic sexual abuse from more than 30 former pupils. According to the Guardian, ten of the tutors, all of whom have taught at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) or ...
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ArticleUK orchestras want 'sports star' tax breaks for visiting musicians
Orchestras and other UK arts organisations are calling on the government to give visiting musicians similar tax breaks to those being made available to visiting sports stars. The demand comes in response to the government's decision to give tax exemptions to athletes competing at this summer's ...
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ArticleCleveland Orchestra appoints Alexandra Preucil as assistant concertmaster
The Cleveland Orchestra has promoted first violinist Alexandra Preucil (pictured) to the position of assistant concertmaster. Preucil, who has been a member of the orchestra since 2008, is the granddaughter of János Starker, who died last month. Her father is William Preucil, the concertmaster of the Cleveland ...
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ArticleSeattle Symphony musicians reach tentative agreement on new contract
The musicians of the Seattle Symphony and Opera Players' Organisation have reached a tentative contract agreement with the orchestra and opera management. The musicians are expected to vote on the contract’s ratification on 14 May, although the musicians’ committee has recommended passage of the agreement. The announcement comes ...
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ArticleCellist Stephen Kates's widow is sued over the sale of his Montagnana
A 1739 Montagnana that was owned by American cellist Stephen Kates is the focus of legal action in New York. Violin expert and appraiser David Bonsey filed suit against Kates’s widow in Manhattan federal court in April, claiming she owes him $600,000 in commission after hiring him to sell ...
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ArticleCellist Raphaël Merlin has instrument seized at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Customs officers at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, seized Raphaël Merlin’s cello on the morning of 27 April. The cellist was returning to his native France after a US tour with the Ébène Quartet. On 2 May, six days after the incident, Merlin was contacted to retrieve the ...
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ArticleSPCO musicians to return to work with new contract
The musicians of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) have returned to the concert stage after a lockout lasting more than six months. On 29 April the musicians ratified an agreement with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society, which reduces the size of the orchestra from 34 ...
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ArticleElysian Quartet, Scots chamber orchestra to premiere works in 2014 New Music Biennial
New works for chamber orchestra and string quartet have been commissioned as part of the first UK-wide New Music Biennial. Taking place over the course of 2014, the year-long series of world premieres has been put together by the PRS for Music Foundation, in partnership with Arts ...
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ArticleLegendary cellist and pedagogue János Starker dies at the age of 88
The renowned cellist and pedagogue János Starker has died at the age of 88. The Hungarian-born musician, who emigrated to the US in 1948, taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for over 50 years. Among the hundreds of students he taught in his career ...
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ArticleKian Soltani triumphs at the International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland
Kian Soltani, from Austria, won the 15,000-euro first prize at the International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland. He performed the Lutoslawski Concerto in the final concert at the Helsinki Music Centre. Soltani (pictured) was born in 1992 and is a student of Ivan Monighetti at the ...
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ArticleMaia Cabeza wins Leopold Mozart violin competition in Augsburg, Germany
Maia Cabeza has won first prize at the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition in Augsburg, Germany. The US–Canadian violinist, who was born in 1992, received 10,000 euros. Cabeza (pictured) studied with Ida Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein at the Curtis Institute, and is currently studying with Ulf ...
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Follow-up experiment for blind testing study to assess instruments' projection
A controversial 2010 experiment, which attempted to find out how easily players could distinguish new violins from old Italians, is to have a follow-up. The study's authors have announced that the new experiment will take place in September at a venue on the outskirts of Paris, France. Instead of ...
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ArticleLondon-based Fournier Trio wins 2013 Parkhouse Award
The Fournier Trio has won the 2013 Parkhouse Award in London. The award, given every two years, is for chamber ensembles of piano and strings whose members have been performing together for at least two years. The prize for the winning ensemble includes three concerts in major ...
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ArticleRoyal Philharmonic Society honours Buskaid and Sphinx founders
The UK's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has awarded honorary memberships to Buskaid founder Rosemary Nalden and Aaron Dworkin, the founder of the Sphinx Organisation. British violist Nalden (pictured) founded Buskaid in 1992 to raise money for a string project in South Africa. Since 1999 she has ...
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ArticleVeteran US concertmaster William Steck dies at 79
US violinist William Steck has died at the age of 79. A veteran of the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas Symphony and Atlanta Symphony orchestras, he was best known as concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington DC, which he led from 1982 to 2001. Born in ...
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ArticleTitanic bandleader's letter sells for £93,000 at auction
A letter written by Titanic violinist and bandleader Wallace Hartley has been sold for £93,000. Hartley wrote the letter on board the Titanic just days before the liner's maiden voyage ended in tragedy in the North Atlantic on 14 April 1912. The letter, addressed to Hartley's ...
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ArticleLong-serving LA Philharmonic bassist Richard D. Kelley dies at the age of 76
US double bassist Richard D. Kelley, who performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 50 years, died on 16 April at the age of 76. He had joined the orchestra in 1956 aged 19, when Eduard van Beinum was its music director. During his 57-year ...
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ArticleIU Jacobs School of Music appoints Joseph Swensen to violin faculty
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Joseph Swensen as visiting professor of violin. The New Jersey-born violinist, composer and conductor will start his position in the autumn of 2013. Swensen is currently conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO). He was the ...
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ArticleBBC Proms programme highlights star string soloists but just one quartet
Violin concertos will be well represented at the 2013 BBC Proms, although string quartets and trios are almost absent from this year’s programme. Despite a series of chamber music and Saturday lunchtime concerts set for Cadogan Hall during the Proms period, the only quartet to be performing ...
