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NewsFundraiser for restoration of smashed cello
Tim Smedley’s cello was smashed after a presenter fell into the orchestra pit at Buxton Opera House in July
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NewsYouth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine receives €10,000 music prize
The prize was given by the German city of Duisberg
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News‘We are facing the loss of our livelihoods’: Petition to save ENO from funding cuts
The opera company faces a potential move out of London, putting the jobs of thousands at risk
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis December 2022: A safe space for musicians?
As the UK government holds an inquiry into misogyny in music, the Musicians’ Union calls for further action to safeguard female players.
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NewsThe Strad December 2022 issue is out now!
Andrew Dipper shows how the 1693 ‘Harrison’ Stradivari violin signifies the start of a critical phase in the master luthier’s career
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: December 2022
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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NewsCellist Julia Hagen receives 2022 Beethoven Ring Award
The cellist is the latest in a long line of musicians to receive the award, which includes violinists Julia Fischer and Lisa Batiashvili
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NewsZukermans team up with fourth graders to commemorate war veterans
Violinist Pinchas Zukerman, cellist Amanda Forsyth, the Kid Pan Alley and fourth graders at Pocohontas Elementary join forces to create a song inspired by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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NewsJaemin Han wins 2022 IsangYun Cello Competition
The 16-year-old scoops another competition victory, as well as additional special prizes
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NewsPrize winners announced in the 10th International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists
Nine young violinists have won prizes across three categories in the competition at the University of Music Franz Liszt, Weimar
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NewsCuarteto Chroma appointed as Mexico’s Fine Arts Quartet
The quartet joins a select number of concert artists to represent the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico
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NewsEuropa Galante to play on matched string ensemble
The concert, taking place on 21 November, features eleven instruments all made by luthier Renato Scrollavezza
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News‘Kux, Castelbarco’ Stradivari viola sells for £2.5m
The c.1720 instrument was sold at auction by Tarisio in London on 31 October 2022
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NewsViolin maker Tetsuo Matsuda dies aged 77
Born in Japan, the luthier lived in Chicago, US, for four decades
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NewsTartini tones: new research shows differences in old and new instruments
An Italian team has recorded the mysterious ‘third tone’, created when playing a two-note chord, as part of its research
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NewsTwoSet Violin loaned two Golden Age Stradivari violins
The duo will debut the instruments with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in concert and via free livestream on 16 November
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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’
