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NewsFormer LA Phil concertmaster Sidney Weiss has died
The US violinist was 95 years old and toured extensively with his pianist wife, Jeanne Weiss
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FocusThe Strad February 2024 issue is out now!
Young British violist Timothy Ridout graces the cover to speak about his latest recording, a tribute to the great Lionel Tertis
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NewsWinners announced for the 2024 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition
The Viatores Quartet won the first prize of €6,000 and the Friends of Young Musicians Award
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NewsWinners announced at the Paris International Violin Making Competition
Held from 17 to 21 January 2024, prizes were awarded to professional luthiers and up-and-coming student violin makers
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NewsDouble bass smashed beyond repair by Qantas Airways
Australian bassist Mark Elton was flying from Melbourne to Perth for the Fringe World festival
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn signs with KD SCHMID
The US violinist was previously represented by IMG Artists
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News20-year-old Bartu Elci-Ozsoy loaned the 1760 ‘ex-Vidas’ Guadagnini violin
The violin once belonged to 20th-century virtuoso violinist Raoul Georges Vidas, nicknamed ‘the grandson of Massart’
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FocusCredo: Going strong at 25
Integrating community service with rigorous orchestral and chamber music training, Credo invites young musicians to take part in its 2024 National Festival this summer at Symphony Center, Chicago
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NewsFedor Rudin loaned the 1712 ‘ex-Viotti’ Stradivari violin
The violinist previously played a Storioni violin from 1779 for six years
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NewsAn audience member threw a bra at violinist Ray Chen in Munich
Chen received the unusual item following a performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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News2024 International Classical Music Awards Announced
String players featured prominently among this year’s winners
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NewsViola da gambist Salomé Gasselin signs to L’Agence
The award-winning gambist joins the roster of the French agency for general management
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NewsViolin smashed in a horror bus-bicycle collision undergoes a miracle repair
Violinist Dan Hodd was hit by a bus while cycling with his violin on his back in December 2022, resulting in a leg amputation, and the instrument in over 100 pieces
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NewsCellist Luka Coetzee signs with Sheldon Artists
The 19-year-old Canadian cellist joins the agency for exclusive worldwide representation
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News24-hour concert to set a new Guinness World Record with only female and non-binary composers
‘Let HER MUSIC Play’ is an initiative by the Donne Foundation, striving for gender equality in music
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NewsA video gamer is beating Elden Ring with a violin
As if Elden Ring wasn’t hard enough, Twitch streamer TiavioliGaming is playing through one of the most challenging games of recent times armed with an electric violin and an intricate gaming set-up
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NewsViolinist Eugene Drucker announced as Berkshire Bach Society artistic director
The founding member of the Emerson String Quartet takes on the role following the quartet’s 2023 dissolution
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn awarded $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
The violinist receives the award for outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in classical music
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NewsAttacca Quartet signs with MKI Artists
The US ensemble joins the agency for North American representation
