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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 ...
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ArticleMission to save historic London studio
Campaign to preserve Chelsea building where Casals, Tertis, Kochanski and Thibaud played
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Violinist Mieko Kanno joins Royal Conservatoire of Scotland faculty
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow has appointed Mieko Kanno as its new head of strings. The Japanese-born violinist starts in her new post in January 2013. She is currently head of performance at Durham University and is also a musicologist specialising in contemporary music. Kanno studied in ...
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Cavaleri Quartet wins International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg
The Cavaleri Quartet won first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg for string quartets and piano trios. The UK-based ensemble received €20,000 plus the €10,000 Mendelssohn Prize. Second prize went to the Calidore Quartet from the US and Canada.
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Violinist and cellist perform in Internet2 demo
Violinist Marjorie Bagley and cellist Cheng-Hou Lee took part in a performance on Tuesday to demonstrate the musical potential of Internet2 videoconferencing technology. They played the Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia with Bagley in Philadelphia and Lee some 820 miles away in DeKalb, Illinois. The demonstration employed low-latency audio and videoconferencing ...
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First six weeks of Minnesota Orchestra season cancelled
The management of the Minnesota Orchestra has locked out its musicians after they rejected pay cuts that would take their average annual salary from $135,000 to $89,000. The orchestra also cancelled the first six weeks of its autumn season – a total of 17 performances including the 18 October season-opening ...
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Bow maker Benoît Rolland receives $500k MacArthur grant
The French bow maker Benoît Rolland has been named one of 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 no-strings-attached 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation. Rolland trained as a violinist before studying bow making in Mirecourt with Bernard Ouchard. After working as a bow maker in France ...
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Female viola maker Ulrike Dederer takes Cremona Triennale gold
The winners of the 2012 Cremona Triennale lutherie competition have been announced. For the first time in the contest’s 36-year history, the judges awarded a gold medal to a female maker: Ulrike Dederer, a German-born luthier now based in Zurich, Switzerland, took the first prize in the viola category. ...
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Four Stradivaris among Canada Council for the Arts' three-year loans
Eighteen Canadian string players have won the right to perform on rare instruments or bows for the next three years, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). The thirteen violinists and five cellists all participated in a competition-style selection process to receive instruments in the care of the ...
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Two string soloists and a quartet selected as BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3 has announced the players chosen for its New Generation Artists scheme this year. Violinist Elena Urioste, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, and the Apollon Musagète Quartet from Poland will receive opportunities to develop live and recorded performances for broadcast over the next two years. Urioste, a US-born, Mexican–Basque ...
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Auction house Tarisio acquires Cozio online instrument archive
The internet-based auction house Tarisio has announced that it has acquired Cozio, the online instrument archive. In a statement, Tarisio explained that the Cozio website will be substantially redesigned to include higher-quality images, greater consideration for owners' privacy, a shift towards authentic and representational instruments, and frequent content from ...
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Trial of violin dealer Dietmar Machold to continue in November
The trial in Vienna of violin dealer Dietmar Machold has been extended by two days. Machold was in court on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week, but the session did not end in a verdict. The judge adjourned proceedings and the trial is set to continue on 5 and 7 ...
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1694 Stradivari cello to go back on display after accident
One of the rarest Stradivari cellos in existence has been repaired after an accident last April. The decorated 1694 instrument suffered damage to its neck when it hit the edge of a table during a photographic session. On 25 September it will be returned to its display case in Madrid's ...
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Chinese violinist Ying Fu wins first prize at Rodolfo Lipizer competition
Chinese violinist Ying Fu, 28, won the €12,000 first prize at the Premio Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy. Fu, who studies with Cho-Liang Lin at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and previously studied there with the late Sergiu Luca, joined the first violin section ...
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Stolen cello found outside San Francisco opera house
A cello that was stolen from San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Sunday has been returned to its student owner, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Bubenreuth cello, worth around $10,000, was left outside the city's opera house just before midnight on Tuesday. No arrests have so far been ...
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Violin dealer Dietmar Machold goes on trial in Vienna
The German-born violin dealer Dietmar Machold went on trial in Vienna yesterday, facing charges of serious fraud, embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy. The trial is set to last until Friday, and if Machold is found guilty, he could face up to ten years in prison. According to a Reuters report, ...
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Couple caught on CCTV fleeing San Francisco Conservatory with cello
Police in San Francisco have released video footage of a man and woman they want to trace in connection with the theft of a cello from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, reports KTVU. The well-dressed couple, who investigators have dubbed 'Bonnie and Clyde', were seen entering the conservatoire, checking ...
