Animato Quartet wins the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation Competition
The Animato Quartet won €12,000 plus a future engagment at the 2026 Heidelberg Spring String Quartet Festival
Winners announced for the 2025 Sphinx Orchestral Partners Auditions Excerpt Competition
Violinist Allison Lovera wins the $3,500 in the Strings and Harp category
Animato Quartet wins the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation Competition
The Animato Quartet won €12,000 plus a future engagment at the 2026 Heidelberg Spring String Quartet Festival
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Tertis and Aronowitz Viola Competitions announces semi-finalists for 2025
Eight violists from each competition have progressed to play for spot in the final round this weekend
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Violinist James Ehnes extends contract with Seattle Chamber Music Society
The violinist will serve as the Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling artistic director through 2032
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Obituary: British violin maker Peter Voigt
The Sussex-based luthier enjoyed a 67-year career restoring stringed instruments and was also a keen amateur motor racer
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Chicago Violin Competition announces 2024 winners and laureates
Violinists Audrey Park and Stephan Zhang took first prize in the Senior and Young Artists divisions respectively
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Jazz double bassist Mark Izu has died
The Japanese-American bassist and composer was 70 years old
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Violin and piano trio winners announced at the 2025 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition
Tsukushi Sasaki won the violin category, while the Bernstein Trio scooped multiple prizes in the piano trio category
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February 2025: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the February 2025 issue, which presents the ever-evolving Attacca Quartet
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Hilary Hahn withdraws from Munich Philharmonic concerts due to nerve injury
Violinists Clara-Jumi Kang and Esther Yoo step in as soloists
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Violinist Mary O’Reilly has died
O’Reilly had a long-standing association with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as a violinist and board member