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NewsObituary: violist Karen Ritscher (1952-2025)
The influential violist had a wide-ranging career in performance and academia, with a special interest in movement and self-expression as a champion of Karen Tuttle’s coordination approach
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NewsViolin and cello candidates announced for Harbin’s Schoenfeld International String Competition second round
14 musicians in both the violin and cello divisions have progressed to take part in the competition’s second round on 17 and 18 July, where competitors will perform sonata repertoire, a virtuosic piece, plus a Chinese commission
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Premium ❘ ArticleAugust 2025: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the August 2025 issue which stars genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe
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NewsFormer Mozarteum Salzburg director Reinhart von Gutzeit has died aged 78
The influential music professor was also a respected teacher of violin, viola and conducting
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NewsLatvian cellist Marta Sudraba has died
The cellist, who was a member of Kremerata Baltica since 1997, was 50
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NewsNew principal second violinist at the LA Phil
Canadian violinist Melody Ye Yuan will move from the orchestra’s first violin section to the principal role
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NewsMan arrested over theft of 285-year-old violin, worth £150k
A 43-year-old man has been arrested for suspicion of theft of the violin, stolen from a London pub earlier this year
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NewsPrizes awarded at the 2025 Ysaÿe International Violin Competition
13-year-old Yoojun Curtis Lee and 20-year-old Julian Kainrath took home the junior and senior category first prizes respectively
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NewsRenaud Capuçon cancels three summer festival performances
The violinist’s 14, 15 and 16 July concerts will go ahead with revised programmes and musicians
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NewsResults announced for the 13th Vaclav Huml International Violin Competition
The top three winners took home prizes worth €12,000 and a series of concert dates
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NewsPartial success for Newark violin making students as one-year courses announced
The new courses will cost £4,000 and students will receive certificates of competency on completion
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NewsWinners of the 2025 Il Piccolo Violino Magico competition announced
South Korean violinist Choi Soojin took home the €5,000 first prize
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NewsUS visa issues force TwoSet Violin to postpone start of world tour
Brett Yang’s application for a visa to work in the US was denied in May, leaving the duo no choice but to postpone five West Coast concerts in July as Yang makes a second visa application
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NewsGalvin Cello Quartet signs new management deal
The group will be represented in a partnership between Epstein Fox Performances and Dinin Arts
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News1353 string players set record for largest string orchestra
The group played Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in its record-breaking performance, surpassing the previous record by over 300 players
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NewsViolinist Lisa Batiashvili receives award from Bavarian state
The violinist received the Pro Meritis Scientiae et Litterarum award, while raising awareness of the slow progress made to optimise Bavaria’s concert venues
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NewsChicago Symphony Orchestra mourns long-standing violinist, Fox Fehling
Fehling was a member of the orchestra’s violin section from 1979 to 2022
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NewsNew scholarship named in honour of cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson
London Metropolitan University’s Ayanna Witter-Johnson Rising Star Scholarship will go towards a talented individual under 21 intending to study music technology and production
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NewsOrchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse names new concertmaster
24-year-old violinist Quentin Vogel assumes the role
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News15 cellists selected for 2025 Budapest International Cello Competition
The cellists will compete for a prize pool worth over €40,000 from 8 to 14 September 2025
