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Julia Fischer, Leonidas Kavakos, Sigiswald Kuijken to perform in Southbank Centre's 2013–14 season
Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly today launched the London venue’s 2013–14 season, sounding alarm about developments in England’s cultural landscape. Referring to the government’s proposed English Baccalaureate qualifications, which leave music off the core areas of school study, she said: ‘We should be concerned that classical music may not ...
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Cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky dies
Cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky has died at the age of 73. The founder of Canadian chamber ensemble I Musici de Montréal, he also performed as part of the Borodin Trio from 1977 to 1993. Born in 1939, Turovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatoire. He won first prize in ...
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Violinist raises nearly $25,000 to manufacture new chin rest
A Colorado-based violinist is set to start manufacturing his own chin rest design after raising nearly $25,000 on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. While studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, Jordan Hayes won the school's New Venture Challenge in 2010 for making a multi-adjustable chin rest ...
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UK violinist Peter Mountain, former RLPO concertmaster, dies
British violinist and teacher Peter Mountain has died at the age of 89. During a long career he was concertmaster of several UK orchestras, performed as a soloist and chamber musician, and coached both students and young professionals. Born in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Mountain won a scholarship to the ...
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French violist Vincent Aucante replaces Olaf Hallmann in Gewandhaus Quartet
Vincent Aucante, the first solo viola of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, has replaced Olaf Hallmann as violist in the Gewandhaus Quartet. Aucante joined the Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2011 after serving as principal viola with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. His chamber music activities ...
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Pedrazzini violin worth $35,000 discovered in trash
A man in San Antonio, Texas, who found a violin among some trash by the side of a road, later discovered that it was a 1922 Giuseppe Pedrazzini worth $35,000. The instrument was appraised by Peter Shaw of Houston dealers Amati Violin Shop for an episode of the PBS TV ...
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Chaudière violin thief jailed for six months
A man from Hounslow, London, who admitted stealing a Frédéric Chaudière violin valued at £25,000 from a train, has been sentenced to six months in jail. The violin's owner, Catrin Win Morgan of the Brodowsky Quartet, had placed the instrument, which was in a black Gewa case, on an ...
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ArticleTim Ingles and Paul Hayday leave Sotheby's to set up own auction firm
Sotheby's auctioneers Tim Ingles and Paul Hayday have left the London company to form their own specialist auction house and dealership. Ingles & Hayday will be based at 94–96 Wigmore Street, and will hold its first sale on 21 May 2013. Sotheby's will cease to hold instrument ...
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Violinist Nicola Benedetti receives MBE in New Year Honours list
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti has received an MBE in the New Year Honours list. She was honoured for services to music and to charity. Benedetti has worked with organisations such as Sistema Scotland and the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity, and has been an outspoken supporter of music education.Elsewhere on ...
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Ligeti Quartet channels Noël Coward in theatrical performance
As part of its Park Lane Group concert in London's Purcell Room on 11 January, the Ligeti Quartet gives the world premiere of a work that asks its performers to act as well as play. Hay Fever, by London-based composer and mezzo-soprano Laura Bowler, is inspired by Noël Coward's ...
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Italian student uses Facebook in search for violin stolen in Florence
A 20-year-old Italian violin student has set up a Facebook page to appeal for the safe return of her stolen instrument. The violin, a 1989 Guadagnini-model Claude Lebet valued at €15,000, was snatched at Florence's Santa Maria Novella station on Monday 17 December. The Catania-born owner, Gemma Raneri, ...
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Los Angeles Philharmonic appoints Robert deMaine as principal cellist
Cellist Robert deMaine has accepted the job of principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter's music director, Gustavo Dudamel, offered deMaine the position after the cellist completed a trial week with the orchestra earlier this year. DeMaine, who has been principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra ...
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Jazz bassist Charlie Haden to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Grammys
Jazz bassist and composer Charlie Haden has been named as one of the recipients of this year's Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards. Haden was honoured for his work with artists including Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon. The award citation described the 75-year-old as 'an all-American jazz ...
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Cremonese violin making recognised by UNESCO
UNESCO has placed Cremonese violin making on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Lutherie in the Italian city was one of 27 activities and traditions that were added to the list after a UNESCO committee meeting in Paris this month. Others include traditional straw-hat weaving ...
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Cellist Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
The South Korean cellist and conductor Han-Na Chang has been named as the new music director of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. The 29-year-old will begin her new position in September 2013, taking over from Michalis Economou. Chang, who won first prize at the Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris ...
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Kim Kashkashian and Antonio Meneses among artists up for 2013 Grammy awards
The nominees for the 2013 Grammy Awards have been announced, with a scattering of top string players in the mix. Kim Kashkashian is nominated in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for her ECM recording Kurtág/Ligeti: Viola Music. Antonio Meneses features in the same category for his disc of cello ...
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Pioneering violin teacher Eta Cohen dies at 96
Violin pedagogue Eta Cohen, who developed a pioneering teaching method for beginners, has died at the age of 96. Born in Sunderland, UK, to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania, Cohen studied the violin locally and began teaching after leaving school at the age of 17. She taught privately and ...
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Baltimore Symphony to develop amateur musicians programme
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has received $950,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the growth of its BSO Academy programme for adult amateur musicians. The BSO Academy began in June 2010 as a week-long immersive programme giving amateurs the opportunity to learn from and play alongside members ...
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Adès, Birtwistle, Larcher receive prizes at British Composer Awards
Three of the winners at this year's British Composer Awards received their prizes for string compositions. The 2012 awards, given by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, were announced at a ceremony in London's Goldsmiths' Hall on 3 December. Harrison Birtwistle, who has previously been recognised three ...
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Violinist James Dong takes first prize at Gisborne International Music Competition
Violinist James Dong has won first prize at the Gisborne International Music Competition in New Zealand. The 19-year-old, who studies with Ole Bohn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, received NZ$8,000. Second prize went to New Zealand trumpeter Thomas Eves. Cellist Minjin Lee, from Singapore, took third prize. Dong ...
