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NewsCalling Canadian violinists and cellists: applications now open for Musical Instrument Bank
The Canadian organisation loans fine instruments and bows to musicians every three years
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NewsViolinist Rachel Podger awarded Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize 2015
The UK period musician is the first female to receive the award, worth £10,000
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NewsBerlin Philharmonic manager calls for an increase in public funding
The orchestra’s yearly subsidy has remained at the same level for the past 13 years
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NewsPerformances for an audience ‘sound better’ despite musician nerves, says study
The experiment tested recordings of performances by 13 pianists on 153 listeners
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NewsViolin sound and design developed by accident, say researchers
The evolution of f-hole shape and back plate thickness are likely the result of small errors in the copying process
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NewsBelenus Quartet wins first prize at the ‘Franz Schubert and Modern Music’ Competition
The Swiss ensemble triumphed in the string quartet category; no first prize was awarded in the piano trio section
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NewsCanadian violist Stanley Solomon has died aged 97
The musician was principal viola of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1949 to 1983
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NewsVideo: Seattle Symphony musicians perform on delayed flight
During a two-hour delay to take off on an Alaska Airlines flight to Palm Springs, four members of the Seattle Symphony – violinists Mikhail Shmidt and Elisa Barston, violist Susan Gulkis Assadi and cellist Walter Gray – whipped out their instruments to perform a string quartet. The performance ...
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NewsCellos are too big to be transported in the cabin, says airline
Air Canada refused to sell Richard Harwood an extra ticket for his cello as it exceeded the requisite dimensions, according to the musician
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NewsValery Gergiev announces Tchaikovsky Competition 2015 judges
A number of today's leading names will join the violin, cello, piano and voice panels this summer
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NewsVideo: violinist Hilary Hahn wins 2015 Grammy Award for ‘In 27 Pieces’ album
Hahn shares the Best Chamber Music prize with her piano collaborator Cory Smythe
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NewsKristen Bruya appointed Minnesota Orchestra principal double bass
The musician was formerly assistant principal bass of the Toronto Symphony
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NewsEduardo Ríos wins Sphinx Competition $50,000 first prize
The annual Detroit contest, including senior and junior divisions, is open to black and Latino US string players
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NewsJulian Lloyd Webber to sell his Stradivarius cello
The cellist was forced to retire from performing last year due to a neck injury
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NewsMunich will not be granted a new concert hall
The city’s existing Philharmonie im Gasteig will instead be renovated to improve its acoustics
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NewsInternational Boris Goldstein Violin Competition responds to criticism
The event was accused of favouring students of its founder and jury chair, Zakhar Bron, writes Rebecca Schmid
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NewsMone Hattori wins inaugural Boris Goldstein International Violin Competition in Switzerland
All six of the top prizes went to students of competition founder Zakhar Bron
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NewsDanish National Chamber Orchestra fights for survival
Crowdfunding scheme aims to raise 3m Danish kroner before 28 February
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NewsBoris Goldstein Violin Competition names finalists
Seven violinists have made it through to the final of the International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition Bern. The candidates were selected from a second-round field of 14.The finalists are:Benjamin Baker (24, New Zealand/United Kingdom)Mone Hattori (15, Japan)Furong Li (24, China)Arsenis Selalmazidis (24, Greece/Russia)Aleksey Semenenko (26, Ukraine)Stefan Tarara (28, ...
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NewsThe Strad February 2015 issue is out now
Philippe Graffin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Benoît Rolland and Paul Tortelier all feature in a French-focused edition
