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NewsThe Strad July 2024 issue is out now!
Our instrumental cover star is the 1733 ‘Salabue, Martzy’ Carlo Bergonzi violin, described by Count Cozio as ‘my largest and most beautiful Bergonzi’
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NewsThe Fibonacci Quartet wins the Premio Paolo Borciani
The Spain/UK-based quartet receives €25,000 and further performance engagements
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NewsChicago Sinfonietta appoints principal double bass
Michael Martin takes up the role having enjoyed a broad orchestral career across the US
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NewsIndiana University violin professor Kevork Mardirossian has died
The violinist and respected pedagogue was 70 years old
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NewsNew string appointments at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
The orchestra has appointed associate concertmaster, assistant concertmaster, two new cellists and two Paul J. Ross fellows
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NewsThe Cleveland Orchestra appoints first associate concertmaster
Violinist Liyuan Xie will start the role on 29 June 2024, having previously held a post in the orchestra’s second violin section
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NewsViolinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Stretton Society receive European Culture Prizes for 2024
At the awards ceremony in Luxembourg on 7 June, Batiashvili was recognised for her services to culture in Europe, while the Stretton Society received the European Initiative Prize for its work loaning valuable instruments to young musicians
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News‘I’m focused on what needs to be done’: Why a Ukrainian violinist returned home to volunteer in the war effort
Brian Dooley interviews Ukrainian violinist Nataliia Halunenko, who gave up her performance career abroad to help provide aid in her home country
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NewsViolinist wins right to compensation after career-ending Pilates accident
Maya Meron suffered a fractured left elbow and serious abdominal injuries after a Pilates machine collapsed while she was using it in March 2019, leaving her with long-term nerve damage
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NewsPrizes awarded at the 2024 Città di Cremona Competition
Italian-Japanese violinist Yuki Serino scooped the top prize of €40,000
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NewsWinners announced for the 2024 Leonid Kogan International Competition for Young Violinists
The €2,000 first prize in the senior category was awarded to 23-year-old Japanese violinist Wakana Kimura
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NewsMissing: 18th-century Italian bass worth $150,000
Last seen in Baldwin, NY, the bass belongs to Brian Fountain, principal bassist of the São Paolo Opera House Orchestra, who has declared the instrument stolen following a fallen-through consignment deal
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NewsArtis Quartet to disband after 45 years
The Viennese string quartet has announced it will end its career at the end of 2025
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NewsA long-lost octet receives its world premiere recording - more than 125 years after its composition
Charles Martin Loeffler’s 1897 Octet lay unpublished, unrecorded and unheard until its rediscovery in April 2020
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NewsA digital asset company has tokenised the 1708 ‘Empress Caterina’ Stradivari violin
Galaxy Digital Holdings and the instrument’s owner, Yat Siu, are using the digital representation of the $9 million Stradivari violin as collateral to secure a loan
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NewsViolinist Sandy Yamamoto takes up artistic director role in Texas
The former member of the Miró Quartet will become artistic director of Austin Chamber Music Center from September 2024
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NewsNine-year-old wins the 2024 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition
Kai Xuan Travis Wong, a nine-year-old violinist from Singapore, beat more than 100 others in the Italian competition for young violinists
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NewsWinners announced at the 2024 Klein International String Competition
20-year-old violist Pearl de la Motte won the grand prize of $5,000, plus a host of performance opportunities
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NewsDmytro Udovychenko wins the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition
The Ukrainian violinist scooped first prize of €25,000, concert engagements and loan of a Stradivari violin, in a final round full of performances from many familiar faces in today’s violin competition circuit
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NewsThe Juilliard School announces its new graduate resident quartet
Championing the music of lesser-known women composers, the Katarina Quartet will enjoy a two-year residency from September 2024
