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Violinist Tami Lee Hughes is first fellow in new Baltimore Symphony fellowship
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has launched an orchestra fellows programme in partnership with Sphinx, the non-profit organisation that promotes diversity in the arts. The fellowship will offer a year of mentoring and performance opportunities to Black and Latino instrumentalists. The first fellow is violinist Tami Lee Hughes (left), originally ...
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Brazil to reinforce pernambuco conservation
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to preserve the country's endangered national tree, the Pau brasil, source of bow makers' pernambuco wood. The Ministry of Environment has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group that ...
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Violinist Jack Liebeck's surgeon opens musicians' clinic
The doctor who treated UK violinist Jack Liebeck (left) for a ganglion cyst in his wrist last year has launched a new clinic in London specialising in musicians' upper-limb problems. Dr John White, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, will work with a team of hand and upper-limb therapists at BMI ...
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Former Arditti Quartet violist Garth Knox to join RNCM faculty
Garth Knox has been appointed international tutor in viola at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK. He will start his new position in September 2013. Knox, who studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Frederick Riddle, is a former member of the ...
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Cellist Jay Campbell wins Concert Artists Guild prize
Cellist Jay Campbell has won first prize in the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition in New York. The 23-year-old, who studies with Fred Sherry, joins the Concert Artists Guild roster and receives a two-year management contract.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra extends cellist Yo-Yo Ma's contract
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has extended its consultancy contract with Yo-Yo Ma. The cellist, who has been a creative consultant for the orchestra since 2010, will continue in that role until June 2015.Ma has been working chiefly on the orchestra's education programmes, and is a key supporter of the Citizen ...
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Tafelmusik violinist Jeanne Lamon to step down as music director
Violinist Jeanne Lamon, music director of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir since 1981, is to step down from the role in 2014. Lamon will become music director emerita and will work on establishing the Tafelmusik International Baroque Academy to train young players in period performance. Lamon studied ...
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Young UK orchestral professionals to get instant feedback at new audition masterclasses
A series of pilot orchestral audition masterclasses will take place in London next January and February. The public masterclasses will give young UK professional players the chance to perform to a panel of experienced orchestral musicians and an audience, and then receive feedback from the panel on their playing and ...
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Violinist Melvin Ritter, ex-concertmaster of the St Louis Symphony, dies
US violinist Melvin Ritter, who was concertmaster of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1965, has died at the age of 89, reports the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Born in Cleveland in 1923, Ritter studied violin at the Peabody Conservatory with Oscar Shumsky and later with Ivan Galamian ...
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Density research dents notion of special Cremonese violin wood
New research into violin wood density suggests that it is unlikely that classical Cremonese makers had access to wood with significantly different material properties than that available to contemporaneous or modern makers. In a study published online in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Plos One, Terry Borman, Berend Stoel ...
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Nigel Kennedy's stolen Violectra violins turn up at auction house
Three electric violins that were stolen from Nigel Kennedy's tour bus in Liverpool in 2005 are due to be returned to the violinist after turning up at an auction house in North Wales.The Violectra violins, two custom-finished in the claret and blue of Kennedy's beloved Aston Villa football club, and ...
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Seattle Symphony musicians approve 'strike authorisation'
The musicians of the Seattle Symphony could become the next group of US orchestral players to face a work stoppage after voting on and approving a 'strike authorisation' yesterday. The Seattle Symphony and Opera Players' Organization (SSOPO) has been negotiating with both the Symphony and Opera managements since the ...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Robert deMaine offered Los Angeles Philharmonic job
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist, Robert deMaine, has been offered the job of principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter's music director, Gustavo Dudamel, made the offer after deMaine completed a trial week with the orchestra. As of Tuesday 16 October, there had been no official ...
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Early music ensemble Pallade Musica wins Baroque contest
Montreal-based early music ensemble Pallade Musica won the $3,000 grand prize in Early Music America's first Baroque Performance Competition in New York. The ensemble comprises Tanya LaPerrière, violin, Elinor Frey, cello, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, and Mylène Bélanger, harpsichord. New York-based ensemble The Sebastians won the $1,000 audience award.
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Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier and Dami Kim share first prize at Joseph Joachim competition in Hannover
Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier, from Moldova, and Dami Kim, from South Korea, shared first prize at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany. Both players received the full first-prize award of €50,000. Third prize went to Tobias Feldmann from Germany, who also won the critics' prize and the audience prize.
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Scottish babies to get free Royal Scottish National Orchestra CD
Every baby born in Scotland over the next twelve months will be given a free CD of music recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, reports heraldscotland.com. The CD will be distributed to 220 registrar offices across the country, and is expected to reach up to 60,000 families. ...
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Restorer and bow maker Jean-Frédéric Schmitt dies at 75
The restorer and bow maker Jean-Frédéric Schmitt has died at the age of 75. In his Lyon workshop he did restoration and sound adjustments for many leading musicians, and worked on nearly 300 valuable Italian instruments. Born in 1937 in a suburb of Grenoble, France, Schmitt studied at the ...
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Martin Beaver and Clive Greensmith to direct Colburn School chamber programme
Violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith are to join the faculty of the Colburn Conservatory of Music next autumn. They will be directors of the school's string chamber music programme. Beaver and Greensmith are both members of the Tokyo Quartet, which will disband at the end of the ...
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Violinist and veteran concertmaster Theo Olof dies aged 88
Theo Olof, the former co-concertmaster of The Hague Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, has died at the age of 88. Born in Bonn in 1924, he fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933, and began studying with Oskar Back. In 1935 he made his debut with the ...
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Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Michel Schwalbé dies at 92
Violinist Michel Schwalbé, who led the Berlin Phllharmonic through most of the Karajan era, has died at the age of 92. Born in 1919, in Radom, Poland, Schwalbé studied violin from the age of eight with Moritz Frenkel in Warsaw. In 1933 he went to Paris to study with ...
