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Paddington Trio signs with Domselaer Artist Management
The ensemble joins the roster for management in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
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Virginia Symphony Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Violinist Grace Park assumes the role with inaugural performances in March
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Amit Peled loaned c.1780 Storioni cello
Peled will play the instrument for a short time to promote the instrument’s sound and history with audiences, describing its public debut as a ‘first date’
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Obituary: luthier Gene Horner (1933 - 2025)
A fixture of the east Tennessee music scene, the fiddle and mandolin maker died on 14 January aged 91
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Lysander Piano Trio appoints new cellist
James Kim joins the ensemble, succeeding Michael Katz, who has been appointed to the Philadelphia Orchestra cello section
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Australian Chamber Orchestra announces 2025 Emerging Artists
Six string players have been selected to take part in the orchestra’s programme in its anniversary year
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RNCM appoints cellist to chamber music leadership role
Cellist Jennifer Langridge will assume the role of head of strings chamber music in February 2025
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Analysis February 2024: Star string players targeted online
Some of the world’s top string players have become targets for online scammers – and it doesn’t stop there. What steps should all musicians take to help protect their fanbase?
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Odesa International Violin Competition announces new location
It will be the first edition of the competition since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022
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Top job for Top: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Violinist Tjeerd Top departs the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to take up the leading role in Rotterdam
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Shortlists for 2025 RPS Awards include top string players
Cellist Laura van der Heijden and violinist Leia Zhu are among those nominated for this year’s RPS Awards to be held 6 March
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RNCM announces winners of award supporting disabled and neurodiverse musicians
The Lucy Hale Award, worth £5,000, will help support a violist with hypermobility and a baritone horn player with hearing loss
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs in the snow above Davos
The cellist performed atop Schatzalp above Davos during the World Economic Forum, with the aim to raise awareness about climate change and glacier preservation
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Laurence Lesser establishes new string scholarship in memory of his wife, Masuko Ushioda
New England Conservatory’s Masuko Ushioda Dean’s Scholarship Fund will provide financial support to promising string students that embody the musical motivation of Ushioda, who died in 2013
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LSO bids farewell to co-leader, Carmine Lauri
Violinist Carmine Lauri leaves the orchestra after nearly 30 years to return to his home country of Malta
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Aviv Quartet appoints new second violinist
Brandon Garbot joins the ensemble, replacing Philippe Villafranca
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Results announced for the 2025 Tertis and Aronowitz International Viola Competitions
Violists Sam Rosenthal and Xunyu Zhou receive the £5,000 first prizes
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2025 Sphinx Competition winners announced
A total of six string players from both the junior and senior divisions have won more than $100,000 in prizes in the 2025 competition’s final rounds over the weekend
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Violins of Hope instruments feature on new album commemorating 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
The instruments that formerly belonged to Holocaust survivors can be heard on Violins of Hope from The Daniel Pelton Collective, which strives to provide a stark reminder of atrocities of the past in an aim to shape better future
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Oscar nomination for documentary celebrating the NY Phil’s first full-time female musician
The Only Girl in the Orchestra has received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short film