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Violinist Frances Darger to retire from Utah Symphony after 70 years
A Utah Symphony violinist is retiring this summer after 69 years in the orchestra. Frances Darger, 87, joined the orchestra in 1942. Apart from one year that she took off to pursue a singing career with her four sisters, she has played continuously for the orchestra. Her tenure is one ...
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Violinist Andrey Baranov takes first prize at Queen Elisabeth violin competition
Russian violinist Andrey Baranov has won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. The 26-year-old received €25,000 and the loan of the Nippon Music Foundation's 1708 'Huggins' Stradivari for three years. The second prize went to 20-year-old Tatsuki Narita from Japan. Hyun Su Shin, 24, from South Korea, ...
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Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow to leave New York Philharmonic
Glenn Dicterow has announced he will be stepping down as the New York Philharmonic's concertmaster at the end of the 2013–14 season. He will have held the position for 34 years – the longest tenure of any New York Philharmonic concertmaster. In autumn 2013 Dicterow is set to take ...
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Beijing Symphony Orchestra fires cellist for rude behaviour
A Russian cellist in the Beijing Symphony Orchestra has been sacked after a video of him insulting a train passenger went viral on the internet. Oleg Vedernikov was filmed resting his bare feet on the seat of the woman in front of him, and then insulting her in Chinese when ...
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Avery Fisher grant for violinist Benjamin Beilman
Violinist Benjamin Beilman, 22, has been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant worth $25,000. Just this March he received a £10,000 career development award from music charity London Music Masters. A first-prize winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2010, Beilman also won first prize at the ...
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Northwestern University breaks ground on $117m Bienen School music building
A groundbreaking ceremony took place at Northwestern University in Chicago last Friday for a new $117m building to house the Bienen School of Music. The five-storey lakeside structure will house a 400-seat recital hall, rehearsal and recital rooms, soundproofed teaching studios and practice rooms, and administrative and faculty offices. It ...
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The Tesla Quartet wins gold at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition
The Tesla Quartet won the gold medal in the senior string division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. The quartet, whose members study with the Takács Quartet at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received $3,000. The silver medal went to the piano trio Trio ...
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Violin maker Jin Chang Heryern dies in Japan
Korean-born violin maker Jin Chang Heryern has died at the age of 82. A resident of Japan since the age of 14, he was one of the first Asian luthiers to be recognised by the Violin Society of America. Jin’s work received five gold medals in the society’s 1976 competition ...
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra appoints Alexander Hanna as principal bass
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has appointed Alexander Hanna as its new principal bassist. The 26-year-old is currently principal bass of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and will start his new position in Chicago next month. He succeeds Joseph Guastafeste, who retired from the Chicago Symphony in 2010 after 49 years in ...
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Cellist Laura van der Heijden wins BBC Young Musician competition
Laura van der Heijden, a cellist from East Sussex, won the final of the BBC Young Musician 2012 competition, held at the Sage Gateshead. The 15-year-old, who studies with Leonid Gorokhov, received £2,000. She performed the Walton Concerto in the final.Violinist Juliette Roos, 16, from Surrey, who was a strings ...
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17-year-old Norwegian Violist triumphs at Eurovision in Vienna
Norwegian violist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, 17, won first prize at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Vienna. Ringstad, who studies with Soon-Mi Chung at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, played the second and third movements of the Bartók Concerto in the final. Austrian violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, ...
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New memorial for Titanic cellist John Woodward
A new memorial will be built in West Bromwich, England, to commemorate a musician who played cello in the Titanic band, reports BBC News. John Woodward was 32 at the time of the disaster. His body was never found but he is remembered on a family gravestone, which is badly ...
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Marvin Ayres to play cello, violin and viola on Nelson's HMS Victory
A British composer, violinist and cellist is recording on HMS Victory, the ship on which Admiral Nelson was killed during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, reports BBC News. Marvin Ayres has been commissioned to compose and record on the ship by the National Museum of the Royal Navy. ...
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Iraqi youth orchestra to tour with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber in UK
The National Youth Orchestra of Iraq (NYOI) is to give a series of UK performances this August. The musicians will collaborate with cello soloist Julian Lloyd Webber and will perform a new concerto written for Iraqi oud player Khyam Allami. The NYOI will also work with members of the Edinburgh ...
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British cellist Oliver Coates wins Royal Philharmonic Society young artist award
British cellist Oliver Coates has won the young artists category at the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music Awards. Coates is artist-in-residence at London's Southbank Centre, and has performed with the Aurora Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. Other RPS Music Award winners included composer Sally Beamish, who won ...
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Concert violinist and teacher Roman Totenberg dies at 101
The Polish-born American violinist and teacher Roman Totenberg has died at the age of 101. An acclaimed concert soloist, noted for his refined technique and musical taste, Totenberg was passionate about teaching, and served on the faculty at Boston University for half a century. Born in Lodz in 1911, ...
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma wins Polar Music Prize
Yo-Yo Ma has been awarded this year's Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most prestigious music award. The cellist shared the prize with singer-songwriter Paul Simon. The two musicians each receive SEK1m (£90,000).The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, who managed the pop group ABBA. The annual award ...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra appoints Yoonshin Song as concertmaster
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has appointed South Korean-born Yoonshin Song as its new concertmaster. The 30-year-old will join the orchestra this September, becoming its first new concertmaster for 24 years. Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy has been serving as acting concertmaster since May 2011, when Emmanuelle Boisvert left after 23 years as ...
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Eastman School violinist Zvi Zeitlin dies aged 80
Violinist and pedagogue Zvi Zeitlin has died at the age of 90. He taught at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, for more than 40 years. As a performer he toured internationally, gave the world premieres of concertos by Gunther Schuller and Paul Ben Haim, and championed ...
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German violinist Augustin Hadelich receives career development prize
German violinist Augustin Hadelich has received the 2012 Martin E. Segal Award, a $7,500 prize to support career development and further study. The award is given to artists associated with the Lincoln Center's resident arts organisations. Hadelich was nominated by the New York Philharmonic. The violinist received an Avery Fisher ...
