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Violinist Nigel Kennedy to score film of 1973 World Cup qualifier
Violinist Nigel Kennedy will bring together his love of football and his skills at improvisation at London's Southbank Centre in May. Together with other musicians, he will play and partly improvise his own background score at a screening of the 1973 World Cup qualifier between England and Poland. The event ...
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Australian cellist Richard Narroway wins Stulberg Competition
Australian Richard Narroway has won the gold medal in the Stulberg International Strings Competition in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 18-year-old cellist studies at Northwestern University's Beinen School of Music with Hans Jorgen Jensen. As well as the $5,000 top prize, Narroway also won the Bach Award. The silver medal went to ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art instrument galleries reopen
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its musical instrument galleries after an eight-month closure. The reconfigured display features around 230 instruments. More than a quarter of these are new acquisitions or instruments that have rarely been seen before, including a Giovanni Grancino viola d'amore of 1701. The installation retains ...
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US cellist David Soyer dies aged 87
David Soyer, longtime cellist of the Guarneri Quartet, has died at the age of 87. He founded the quartet in 1964 with violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley and violist Michael Tree. After 37 years with the group, he retired in 2001 and was succeeded by his former student Peter ...
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Poll shows public backs UK music education and instrument tuition
A poll commissioned by the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) has shown that the UK public overwhelmingly supports school music lessons. Ninety-one per cent of British adults think that children should be given the chance to learn an instrument at school, according to the new research. The poll also ...
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Tarisio to auction Philadelphia violin shop inventory online
Online auction house Tarisio is to sell the entire collection of William Moennig & Son, the Philadelphia violin shop that closed in December 2009 after 100 years in business. The sale from 22-24 June will comprise more than 800 lots of instruments, bows, photographs, books and seasoned tonewood. Some ...
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Vuillaume 'Evangelists' quartet to be loaned as competition prize
A matched quartet of instruments by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume is the prize in a new quartet competition. The contest, open to quartets with an average age of up to 28, is set to conclude on 13 July 2010 with the finals held at London's Wigmore Hall. The winning quartet will receive ...
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Public outcry as EMI plans to sell Abbey Road studios used by Menuhin and Elgar
Reacting to reports that EMI has put its Abbey Road recording studios up for sale, Britain's National Trust is asking the public whether the studios should be saved. In a statement on its website, the National Trust said: 'If there is enough momentum, we may launch a campaign to save ...
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Violinist and cellists win Yamaha prizes
Violinist Jiafeng Chen and cellists Mikhail Nemtsov and Yoshika Masuda were the winning finalists in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship Awards in London. Each received a prize of £2,000. Chen, 22, studies with Jan Repko at the Royal College of Music in London. Masuda, 23, and Nemtsov, 22, ...
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Borletti-Buitoni Trust success for Elias and Pavel Haas quartets
The Elias Quartet and the Pavel Haas Quartet are among the winners of this year's Borletti-Buitoni Trust awards. The UK-based Elias Quartet received a £30,000 award, and the Pavel Haas Quartet from the Czech Republic won a Special Ensemble Scholarship worth £20,000.
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Violinist André Rieu's album reaches no.2 in UK pop charts
André Rieu's album Forever Vienna has climbed to no.2 in the British pop charts, the highest position ever reached by a classical instrumentalist. The recording features the Dutch violinist and his Johann Strauss Orchestra in popular Strauss waltzes, polkas and other dances. Rieu's no.2 spot surpasses the no.3 place achieved ...
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Violinists Gareth Johnson and Randall Goosby take top awards at Detroit Sphinx competition
Violinists Randall Goosby and Gareth Johnson have taken top honours at the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino string players. Goosby won the $5,000 first prize in the junior division. The 13-year-old from Bartlett, Tennessee, is a student of Philippe Quint. Johnson, 24, was awarded $10,000 and a CD ...
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Soviet-trained violinist Nelli Shkolnikova dies in Melbourne
Violinist Nelli Shkolnikova has died in Australia. Born in the Ukraine in 1928, Shkolnikova studied with Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatoire. She launched her international career after winning first prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition in 1953. She made three tours to the US, appearing at Lincoln Center and with ...
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Violinist and cellist triumph at Unisa competition in South Africa
Yura Lee and Georgi Anichenko won the violin and cello categories respectively at the Unisa International String Competition in Pretoria, South Africa. The 24-year-old Lee, from South Korea, played the Tchaikovsky Concerto in the final. Anichenko, also 24, from Belarus, won with his performance of the Dvorák Cello Concerto. Each ...
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Scottish fiddler Daniel Thorpe crowned Young Traditional Musician of the Year
Fiddler Daniel Thorpe has been named BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year. The 23-year-old from Inverurie in Aberdeenshire is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The award includes performance opportunities and the chance to record a CD.
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Violists Alexander Akimov and Peijun Zu share top prize at viola competition
The Yuri Bashmet International Viola Competition in Moscow has ended with joint winners of the first prize. Alexander Akimov of Russia and Peijun Xu from China split the 300,000 rouble ($10,000) award. Akimov, 27, is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra. The ...
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Grammy wins for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Emerson Quartet
The Grammy winners were announced yesterday in Los Angeles. The Emerson Quartet won Best Chamber Music Performance for Intimate Letters, its disc of Czech quartets. Best Classical Crossover Album went to cellist Yo-Yo Ma for Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace.
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New pay deal for Seattle Symphony
Musicians at the Seattle Symphony have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. They have accepted a five per cent cut in pay until the end of this season, with the current pay scale resuming in 2011. Each of the 84 players will also contribute $2,010 towards the orchestra's ...
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Cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht to write for The Strad
The veteran journalist and string-music lover Norman Lebrecht will be casting his acerbic eye over the string world in a new monthly opinion piece, starting with the March issue of The Strad. The column will be in the magazine only but the conversation will open out on our website. ...
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Curtis Quartet cellist Orlando Cole dies aged 101
Cellist Orlando Cole has died at the age of 101. He studied at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute with Felix Salmond, and went on to teach there for more than 50 years - among his students were Lynn Harrell and Lorne Munroe. As a member of the Curtis Quartet, Cole toured the ...
