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Korean Red Cross launches orchestra of young defectors from North Korea
The Korean Red Cross has launched a youth orchestra of defectors from North Korea, reports the Korea Joongang Daily. The Hope Windmill Orchestra comprises 76 musicians aged between 11 and 21. They will receive two-hour lessons every week and will be mentored by professional orchestral musicians. The youth ...
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Violinists, cellists and quartets to be honoured at Echo Klassik awards
Violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Isabelle Faust, cellist Julian Steckel and the Ébène Quartet are among the winners of this year’s Echo Klassik Awards. Organised annually by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie association, the awards honour classical recording artists from around the world. At the awards ceremony on 14 October, Mutter will ...
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Sotheby's to auction copy of Schoenberg String Quartet no.2 manuscript
An autograph manuscript of Arnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet is set to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in October. The copy of the 1908 work, regarded as one of the turning points in Western classical music, is expected to fetch between €100,000 and €150,000. According to Sotheby’s, Schoenberg gave the ...
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Polish orchestra is renamed after violinist Bronislaw Huberman
The Philharmonic Orchestra in the Polish city of Cz?stochowa has been named after the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who was born there in 1882, reports Polskie Radio. An official ceremony to mark the renaming is planned for 3 October, when the orchestra's concert hall is due to reopen after refurbishment. ...
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Marina Yashvili, violin teacher who taught at the Moscow Conservatoire, dies
Georgian violinist and teacher Marina Yashvili has died at the age of 79. For 32 years she taught violin at the Moscow Conservatoire, having previously been a teacher at the Tbilisi Conservatory in Georgia, and at the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts in the former Yugoslavia. Born ...
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Canada Council acquires violins and cellos valued at C$1.6m
The Canada Council for the Arts has acquired three violins and two cellos for its musical instrument bank. The five instruments are together valued at CAD$1.6m (£1m), bringing the total value of the 19-instrument collection (plus one cello bow) to CAD$28m. The Canada Council used funds from a CAD$1.1m ...
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London Music Masters launches Lost and Sound violin recycling campaign
A music charity in London has launched a city-wide instrument recycling campaign, called Lost and Sound. London Music Masters (LMM), which provides music education to children in inner-city primary schools, is calling for supporters to donate any disused violins, cellos, trumpets, flutes and clarinets. The instruments will be ...
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Over 100 double bassists join battle in Copenhagen
Next month's Bass 2012 convention in Copenhagen will include a combined art event and concert featuring at least 100 double bassists. Inspired by an 1801 naval engagement in which a British fleet led by Nelson defeated the Danish fleet, the 'Battle of Copenhagen' on 17 August will see the ...
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US violin collector Tom Roberts dies aged 75
US businessman and violin collector Tom Roberts died on 11 June at the age of 75. At one point his collection included 36 instruments, many of which he loaned to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, where he lived from 1980. Among Roberts’s violin collection were two Stradivaris: the ...
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Juilliard plans China institute to offer postgraduate and pre-professional music tuition
New York's Juilliard School has signed a framework agreement to set up an educational institute in Tianjin, 75 miles south-east of Beijing. If the project goes ahead, it will be the 107-year-old conservatoire's first physical expansion beyond its New York City campus. 'This is certainly the first project of ...
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Amaryllis Quartet awarded €60,000 career-development prize by Frankfurt foundation
The German–Swiss Amaryllis Quartet is the first recipient of a major new chamber music prize awarded by the Frankfurt-based Jürgen Ponto Foundation. The €60,000 award will be given every two years to a young German, Swiss or Austrian quartet that has already won an international chamber music competition. The ...
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Cellist Sol Gabetta wins €10,000 Würth Prize
Cellist Sol Gabetta has been named the winner of the 2012 Würth Prize. Worth €10,000, the award is given annually to musicians and ensembles considered to be role models for encouraging young people’s interest in classical music. It is organised by the German branch of the Jeunesses Musicales international youth ...
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Could violin concerto found in Dresden be the work of Antonio Vivaldi?
An 18th-century violin concerto, possibly by Antonio Vivaldi, has been discovered in the archives of the Dresden State Library. The technically demanding 17-minute work has been attributed to the Italian composer by Baroque expert Michael Talbot, and may receive its modern premiere this September. The work in A major ...
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Violinist Sheldon Rotenberg, who played with Boston Symphony Orchestra for 43 years, dies
US violinist Sheldon Rotenberg died on 23 June at the age of 95. A veteran of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), he was originally hired by music director Serge Koussevitzky in 1948. Rotenberg retired from the orchestra 43 years later in 1991, having played under four subsequent music directors: Charles ...
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Guarneri 'del Gesù' c.1725 'Folinari' violin sells for £1.5m
The c.1725 'Folinari' violin, one of the earliest known instruments made by Guarneri 'del Gesù', has sold for £1.52m at auction. The violin was the star lot in yesterday's Tarisio sale in London, and according to Tarisio director Jason Price, was only the second 'del Gesù' to have appeared at ...
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Violinist Nicola Benedetti to open final day of Scotland's T in the Park festival
Nicola Benedetti is set to become the first classical artist to perform on the main stage at Scotland’s biggest annual pop and rock music festival. The violinist will be the first act on stage for the final day of T in the Park, which takes place from 6 to 8 ...
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Flemish Baroque group La Petite Bande has its government subsidy withdrawn
The Flemish Baroque orchestra La Petite Bande will lose its government subsidy in January 2013. The decision by the Flemish government comes despite almost 19,000 people worldwide signing a petition against cuts to the ensemble's funding. La Petite Bande was founded in 1972 by violinist, violist and conductor Sigiswald ...
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Players and scientists to discuss music and the brain at festival
This August, the New Mexico city of Santa Fe will host a symposium on music and its effects on the human brain. Orchestral musicians, soloists and chamber music players will take part in the conference, entitled ‘Music, the Brain, Medicine and Wellness’, held as part of the annual Santa Fe ...
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Cellist and teacher Gerhard Mantel dies at 82
The cellist and pedagogue Gerhard Mantel has died at the age of 82. A longtime professor at the Hochschule in Frankfurt, he wrote books about cello technique and string topics such as intonation, as well as a cello method for children and a set of 25 cello duos. Born ...
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Composer Jeff Myers wins violinist Hilary Hahn's encore contest
American composer Jeff Myers has won an online competition to complete Hilary Hahn's encores project. The violinist had already commissioned 26 composers from 17 countries to write new short-form pieces for violin and piano for the project, named 'In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores'. The 27th piece, Myers's The ...
