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News‘Kux, Castelbarco’ Stradivari viola sells for £2.5m
The c.1720 instrument was sold at auction by Tarisio in London on 31 October 2022
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NewsViolin maker Tetsuo Matsuda dies aged 77
Born in Japan, the luthier lived in Chicago, US, for four decades
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NewsTartini tones: new research shows differences in old and new instruments
An Italian team has recorded the mysterious ‘third tone’, created when playing a two-note chord, as part of its research
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NewsTwoSet Violin loaned two Golden Age Stradivari violins
The duo will debut the instruments with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in concert and via free livestream on 16 November
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News‘An Appendix I listing would silence the voice of musicians’ - Brazil’s pernambuco foundation publishes open letter
The National Pau-Brasil Foundation strikes out against the CITES Appendix I proposal and illustrates its alternatives to ensure pernambuco’s conservation
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News‘Pernambuco bows are irreplaceable tools for every professional stringed-instrument player’: Yo-Yo Ma
The cellist has made a statement calling for conservation and sustainable use of pernambuco, ahead of the proposal to move the species to CITES Appendix I
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NewsFury as double bassists barred from French trains
Size restrictions on SNCF trains exclude double bassists from travelling with their instruments, as musicians share their stories of discrimination and being ‘treated like thugs’
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NewsMetropolitan Opera welcomes violinist Angela Wee as its principal associate concertmaster
The violinist auditioned for the position the day after flying back from a six-week tour of Asia
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NewsViolinist Yamen Saadi begins role as concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera
The violinist will now take up the joint position of concertmaster at the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic
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NewsA piece of cake: the LPO celebrates 90 years with music-loving Bake Off contestant
Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Jürgen Krauss presented a Showstopper cake for the orchestra’s milestone anniversary
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NewsRaphaela Gromes acquires 1740 Carlo Bergonzi cello
The cello, made in the workshop of Antonio Stradivari, is one of only three Bergonzi cellos known in existence
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NewsPrizes awarded at 2022 Bottesini Double Bass Competition
Argentinian double bassist Juliàn Medina wins a copy of Bottesini’s Testore bass, worth €30,000
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NewsUruguayan violinist Jorge Risi dies aged 82
The violinist and educator touched many lives through his work in Latin America and Italy
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NewsParis concertmaster Philippe Aïche dies, 59
The violinist was leader of the Orchestre de Paris since 1985
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News20-year-old violinist wins the 2022 Wieniawski Violin Competition
Violinist Hina Maeda will receive a cash prize of €50,000
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NewsLeonkoro Quartet wins 2022 Merito String Quartet Award
A prize package worth €50,000 will go towards the quartet’s artistic development, as well as a composition commission to be premiered at the Wiener Konzerthaus
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News‘A direct attack on our main working tool’: Petition to protect pernambuco from restrictions
The petition is a reaction to the proposal by the Brazilian government to classify pernambuco wood under Appendix I of CITES regulations
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News‘It’s a huge juggle’: new research highlights financial deficit among classical musician parents
The research has found musicians who are parents, especially women, are at a financial disadvantage and under pressure to subsidise earnings
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NewsFrom Dnipro to Landshut: Violins that travel through a war
The story of a violin, completed in Dnipro the day before the Russian invasion on 23 February 2022, and its remarkable journey across Europe, thanks to an encounter on social media