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NewsBudleigh Music Festival returns this year
The line-up includes 18-year-old violinist Coco Tomita, who won the strings final of BBC Young Musician in 2020
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Summer at Snape to run in place of full Aldeburgh Festival
Britten Pears Arts to put on performances that have a strong Festival feel
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Artists and musicians speak out against proposed 50% funding cut to arts
Under the proposed cuts, spending for arts subjects at universities will be cut from £36 million to £19 million
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Top violinists record tribute to Corinne Chapelle
Alumni of the Yehudi Menuhin School are raising money for the family of the violinist, who died in March
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Violist Laurent Verney killed in Paris road accident
Verney was first solo violist of the Paris Opera for more than 35 years and was closely associated with the Bayreuth Festival
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Violinist, 5, awarded distinction in grade 8 exam
Travis Wong Kai Xuan, from Singapore, could barely read or write when he had his first violin lesson at the age of three
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Project 80/90 opens second round of grants for double bassists in need
The initiative founded by double bassists Gary Karr and François Rabbath is open to all double bassists, including those who previously received a grant
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Menuhin competition announces Junior and Senior semi-finalists
The semi-final rounds will be streamed on 15 and 16 May
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Postponed Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition to return this autumn
The 36 contestants appearing in the Quarter-Final round have been announced
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The Strad May 2021 issue is out now
We mark the 70th birthday of British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber with a look back at his life and career
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Analysis May 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees
A new campaign is under way to save Brazil’s endangered pernambuco tree, the wood most favoured by bow makers. The goal is clear, but the devil is in the detail. By Anthony Fort
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Competitions, Awards and Appointments: May 2021
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Philharmonia to return to live music-making at the Southbank Centre in June
The concerts, on 4 and10 June, will also be the last in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as the orchestra’s Principal Conductor Artistic Advisor
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French lutenist signs to Warner Classics
Thomas Dunford performs with Jupiter, the instrumental ensemble he founded in 2018, on the forthcoming Erato release Amazone
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Cellist appointed as director at Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music in Georgia, USA
Jesús Castro-Balbi takes on his new role from 1 July
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Journey through the Australian outback with cellist Richard Narroway
Funded by the Freedman Classical Fellowship, Narroway’s performances along the 3000km train route will be turned into a film
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Violist Rosalind Ventris and conductor Joseph Fort announced as Artistic Directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival
Under the direction of the husband-and-wife team, the festival is set to return with a series of live concerts
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London-based concertmaster practises and composes music during shifts as an Uber driver
Raffaele Pagano took on work as an Uber driver after Covid-19 put his musical career on hold
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Violist Geraldine Walther to head Colburn School chamber programme
Walther spent 14 years with the Takács Quartet, following almost three decades as prinicpal violist of the San Francisco Symphony
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Violinist María Dueñas scoops €15,000 Rheingau Music Festival award
Given by the festival annually, the prize is intended to be ‘recognition and incentive in equal measure’
