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NewsNew York Philharmonic receives $40 million gift
The largest-ever single contribution to the NY Phil from Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang will establish the artistic director chair and expand the orchestra’s future programming and engagement
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NewsWinners announced at 2023 Bartók World Competition
Lilia Pocitari took the top prize of €22,000, as well as the prize for best performance of the compulsory contemporary piece
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NewsAlexander Quartet announces new second violinist
Yuna Lee succeeds Fred Lifsitz, who retired from the group earlier this year
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NewsMalawian one-man band creates and performs on his own unique one-stringed instrument
Gasper Nali’s Babatoni is played sliding a beer bottle along the string and struck with a stick
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NewsUS double bassist Richard Davis dies aged 93
The American musician was also a highly regarded pedagogue at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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NewsNew Stradivari exhibition to open in Cremona
’Il Mistero di Stradivari’ will show how the legend of the master luthier was created and enhanced in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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NewsWinners announced at 2023 ARD International Music Competition
This year’s contest saw winners in the piano trio, viola and double bass categories
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NewsSearching for the ideal bow: Archet x Bunkyo Gakki
In celebration of Archet’s 40th anniversary, a new documentary highlights the collaboration between violinist Fumiaki Miura and bow maker Kunitaka Ohse
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NewsViolinist Giles Broadbent has died
The violinist was a founding member of the quartet Stringfever, famous for its video with all four members playing Ravel’s Bolero on one cello
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NewsBelcea Quartet announces new second violinist
Korean-Australian violinist Suyeon Kang replaces Axel Schacher
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NewsMissing: violin bow stolen in Miami Airport
The item, worth $10,000, went missing on 6 July 2023
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NewsPacifica Quartet takes up residency at University of Chicago
The Grammy Award-winning ensemble returns to the university in its second appointment as the Don Michael Randel ensemble-in-residence
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NewsViolinist William Wei to perform on 1722 ‘Joachim, Elman’ Stradivari
The instrument has been in the collection of the Chimei Culture Foundation since 1991
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NewsApplications open for National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s refocused orchestral programmes
The organisation will offer new musical pathways to widen awareness, access and inclusion throughout the country
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NewsQuartet Draig named Young Ensemble for 2023 Cowbridge Music Festival
The emerging Welsh quartet will receive chamber coaching sessions and a performance opportunity on 21 September
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NewsRoyal Academy of Music names Hannah Roberts as its Jacqueline du Pré Professor of Cello
The British cellist is a long-standing teacher at the institution, with former students including Sheku Kanneh-Mason
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NewsViolinist Elizabeth Sellars to join Flinders Quartet in 2024
The Australian chamber group will be embarking on its 24th season next year
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NewsSeohyun Kim wins 2023 Tibor Varga Violin Competition
The 14-year-old, from South Korea, was the competition’s youngest candidate and received CHF20,000
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NewsDouble bassist and composer Gareth Wood has died
The former chairman of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and composer for brass bands was 73
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NewsLost in Leicestershire: 1890 Emile Mennesson violin
The violin was in a black wooden case and was stolen from a house in Loughborough in July 2022
