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News‘An Appendix I listing would silence the voice of musicians’ - Brazil’s pernambuco foundation publishes open letter
The National Pau-Brasil Foundation strikes out against the CITES Appendix I proposal and illustrates its alternatives to ensure pernambuco’s conservation
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News‘Pernambuco bows are irreplaceable tools for every professional stringed-instrument player’: Yo-Yo Ma
The cellist has made a statement calling for conservation and sustainable use of pernambuco, ahead of the proposal to move the species to CITES Appendix I
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NewsFury as double bassists barred from French trains
Size restrictions on SNCF trains exclude double bassists from travelling with their instruments, as musicians share their stories of discrimination and being ‘treated like thugs’
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NewsMetropolitan Opera welcomes violinist Angela Wee as its principal associate concertmaster
The violinist auditioned for the position the day after flying back from a six-week tour of Asia
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NewsViolinist Yamen Saadi begins role as concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera
The violinist will now take up the joint position of concertmaster at the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic
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NewsA piece of cake: the LPO celebrates 90 years with music-loving Bake Off contestant
Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Jürgen Krauss presented a Showstopper cake for the orchestra’s milestone anniversary
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NewsRaphaela Gromes acquires 1740 Carlo Bergonzi cello
The cello, made in the workshop of Antonio Stradivari, is one of only three Bergonzi cellos known in existence
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NewsPrizes awarded at 2022 Bottesini Double Bass Competition
Argentinian double bassist Juliàn Medina wins a copy of Bottesini’s Testore bass, worth €30,000
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NewsUruguayan violinist Jorge Risi dies aged 82
The violinist and educator touched many lives through his work in Latin America and Italy
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NewsParis concertmaster Philippe Aïche dies, 59
The violinist was leader of the Orchestre de Paris since 1985
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News20-year-old violinist wins the 2022 Wieniawski Violin Competition
Violinist Hina Maeda will receive a cash prize of €50,000
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NewsLeonkoro Quartet wins 2022 Merito String Quartet Award
A prize package worth €50,000 will go towards the quartet’s artistic development, as well as a composition commission to be premiered at the Wiener Konzerthaus
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News‘A direct attack on our main working tool’: Petition to protect pernambuco from restrictions
The petition is a reaction to the proposal by the Brazilian government to classify pernambuco wood under Appendix I of CITES regulations
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News‘It’s a huge juggle’: new research highlights financial deficit among classical musician parents
The research has found musicians who are parents, especially women, are at a financial disadvantage and under pressure to subsidise earnings
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NewsFrom Dnipro to Landshut: Violins that travel through a war
The story of a violin, completed in Dnipro the day before the Russian invasion on 23 February 2022, and its remarkable journey across Europe, thanks to an encounter on social media
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NewsViolinist Geoff Nuttall dies, aged 56
The founding first violinist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet died after a battle with cancer
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NewsCellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia kicked off Copa Airlines flight
Cañón-Valencia was forced to postpone a performance and masterclasses in Venezuela, after airline staff refused to accommodate his cello in the cabin
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NewsViolinist Ida Bieler joins NYU’s Steinhardt School’s string faculty
The American violinist is the school’s newest violin professor
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News19-year-old cellist wins 2022 Fanny Mendelssohn Advancement Award
German cellist Philipp Schupelius wins €10,000 for his programme commemorating Pablo Casals’ timeless messages of peace
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NewsViolinist John Ludlow has died, aged 91
The British violinist was the founding leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 1948