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NewsConcerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra names 19-year-old violinist Miranda Liu as concertmaster
The multiple prize winner is a graduate of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest
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NewsZlatomir Fung wins 2016 George Enescu Competition cello section
American cellist makes history with his performance of the composer’s work
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NewsViolinist Dene Olding to step down as Sydney Symphony concertmaster after three decades
The musician becomes SSO concertmaster emeritus after his final performance with the orchestra on 29 October 2016
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NewsViolinist Gidon Kremer receives Praemium Imperiale Award, worth £100,000
The Japan Art Association
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NewsViolinist Itzhak Perlman to donate his $1m Genesis Prize to charity
The virtuoso performer will divide the funds between young musicians, community music programmes and disabled charities
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NewsARD International Music Competition 2016 names double bass and string quartet winners
Held annually in Germany since 1952, the contest focuses on different instrument categories each year
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NewsViolin makers to build string quartet of instruments for live audience in Vienna
The four-day event features 18 luthiers and will include workshops and talks
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NewsViolinist forced to store unprotected instrument at his feet on Vueling flight
José Manuel Jiménez García posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page
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NewsRoyal Scottish National Orchestra names Lena Zeliszewska as associate principal first violin
The violinist takes up her new role at the beginning of the orchestra's 2016-17 season
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NewsScottish Chamber Orchestra appoints three new front desk string players
The orchestra welcomes a new principal cello, principal second violin and sub principal viola
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NewsElizabeth Fayette appointed Vega String Quartet first violinist
The ensemble is quartet in residence at Emory University in Atlanta
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NewsRare Hill bows go on show in Oxford
Exhibition dedicated to celebrated British workshop W.E. Hill & Sons opens at university museum
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NewsRolston Quartet wins Banff International String Quartet Competition $150,000 top prize
The ensemble receives a cash award of $25,000 in addition to a three-year artistic and career development programme of concert tours, residencies and recordings
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition reveals finalists' scores
Japanese violinist Mayu Kishima won the contest's $100,000 first prize last week
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NewsViolinist Maxim Vengerov appointed visiting professor at London's Royal College of Music
The virtuoso performer will visit the college at least three times per year
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NewsBanff International String Quartet Competition 2016 names three finalists
The three chosen quartets will compete for a first prize worth $150,000
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NewsMayu Kishima wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition $100,000 first prize
The announcement follows two days of finals during which six violinists performed a concerto and a virtuosic work with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
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NewsFormer Berlin Philharmonic principal cellist Eberhard Finke has died aged 96
The cellist was also a founding member of the 12 cellos of the Berlin Philharmonic ensemble
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NewsInternational Federation of Musicians publishes ranking of airline musical instrument policies
The international organisation for musicians' unions has ranked airline policies as red, amber and green
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NewsTips for playing a concerto for the first time with orchestra
Top teachers Boris Kuschnir, Mimi Zweig and Géza Szilvay answer a reader's question for The Strad's Teacher Talk section
