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GalleryWinners announced at 2022 International Violin Bridge Competition
This year, all gold medal winning designs for violin, viola and cello were won by women
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News‘This is going to be a very difficult winter in Ukraine’: Ukrainian opera star organises benefit concert
Opera for Ukraine will raise funds to go towards the Ukrainian Institute
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NewsStar-studded line up for Southbank Centre’s Spring/Summer season
Some of the biggest names in the string world descend upon the capital for the new season
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NewsViolist Tabea Zimmermann wins €20,000 prize for work in music education
The German violist receives the award from the Gunter and Juliane Ribke Foundation
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NewsCellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker wins ‘Pablo Casals Award – For A Better World’
With pianist Martin Helmchen, the pair received the prize for social commitment at the closing of the Kronberg Festival
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NewsBryony Gibson-Cornish appointed viola professor at RCM
At 29 years old, the violist of the Marmen Quartet is one of the youngest professors at the college
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NewsCellist Alexander Chaushian joins The Yehudi Menuhin School
A YMS alumnus, Chaushian has been named as the new cello professor
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NewsViolinist Colin Jacobsen named Santa Fe Pro Musica’s new artistic director
The violinist, composer and arranger begins the role in a new chapter for the organisation
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NewsUCLA study links music mentoring to higher academic performance in students
The study has helped the D’Addario Foundation launch its Immersive Music Challenge, which aims to bring intensive music mentoring to lower income schools
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NewsSigned copy of Paganini’s violin to raise funds for music education in Brazilian favelas
A copy of Paganini’s ’del Gesù’ violin ‘Il Cannone’ made by Luiz Amorim will be auctioned by Tarisio later this month
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News‘It’s gone’: Belfast luthier loses workshop of 30 years in devastating fire
A fundraiser has been set up to enable Aidan Mulholland to continue working, despite losing all his stock and tools
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NewsViolinist Jan Mark Sloman has died
The former member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and faculty member at numerous institutions was 73
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NewsDecorated violins in honour of breast cancer survivors
A Boston-area music shop commissioned six artists to decorate violins in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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NewsTakehiro Konoe wins 2022 Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition
The violist takes home a cash prize of 40,000 CZK (£1,400) and various accessories from Gewa and Pirastro
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NewsRAM appoints joint William Lawes Chairs of Chamber Music
Violinist Anthony Marwood MBE and violist Lawrence Power will work intensively with various chamber groups and ensembles across the Academy
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News16-year-old violist wins BBC Young Musician 2022 Strings Final
Jaren Ziegler will represent strings at the competition Grand Final, which will be broadcast on 9 October
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News19-year-old violinist María Dueñas signs with Deutsche Grammophon
The Spanish violinist is set to release her debut with the label in May 2023
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NewsJazz bassist Kelly Sill has died
The bassist, composer, educator and recording artist was 70 years old
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NewsEngegård Quartet announces new second violinist
Former violinist of the Fitzroy Quartet Laura Custodio Sabas joins the Norwegian ensemble
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NewsSeattle Symphony welcomes two new concertmasters
Violinists Helen Kim and Emerson Millar have been appointed associate and second assistant concertmaster respectively