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NewsConductor Bernard Haitink has died
The renowned Dutch conductor died peacefully last night at the age of 92, in the company of his wife and family at his London home
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D’Addario Foundation awards $487,500 to music education programmes
170 music education programmes across 104 cities in the US and Canada will enjoy monetary and product grants for 2021
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Gateways Music Festival awarded $800,000 from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The funds will help support the organisation’s mission to support and connect classical musicians of African descent, including its debut as the first all-Black symphony orchestra to perform at Carnegie Hall next year
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Danish String Quartet x Music Lab: exploring subconscious interaction in performance
The Danish String Quartet will perform a livestreamed concert which aims to research physiological reactions to music between performers and audience members
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The Strad November 2021 issue is out now!
Our November issue features violinist Chad Hoopes’s unconventional path to musical success as well as his passion for teaching
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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine to perform seated for the foreseeable future
Pine, who suffered injuries to her lower limbs in 1995, was advised by her medical team that she will be non-ambulatory over the next few years.
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Violinist Carl Pini has died
The violinist and conductor enjoyed an illustrious career across the UK and Australia
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Applications open for Classicalia Music Competition
The online music competition will give 13 musicians the chance to perform at the Vienna Konzerthaus, to be recorded and broadcast by PBS
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‘Joyfully, with a lot of spirit’ - Julia Fischer on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
Violinist Julia Fischer shares her thoughts on the third movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, in this extract from the October 2021 issue
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Cellist Sterling Elliott signs with Colbert Artists
The US-cellist received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2021 and was the winner of the Sphinx Competition in 2019
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Anastasia Kobekina granted use of 1698 Stradivari cello
The cellist will play on the ’De Kermadec-Bläss’ Stradivari, facilitated by the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger
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Applications open for Manchester Collective’s 2022 winter residency for string players
Up to twelve string players at any stage of their career will be selected for the ensemble’s first ever winter residency, to be held 19-29 January 2022
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Kenneth Essex, violist for The Beatles, has died
The prolific orchestral and session violist who raised funds for various charities has died aged 101
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Violinist Lukas David has died
The Austrian violinist, who was a former pupil of Tibor Varga and Nathan Milstein, passed away on 11 October aged 87
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Echéa Quartet win ROSL string ensemble prize
The quartet performed a programme of Schubert, Kurtág and Brahms to take the top prize of £10,000
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Diversity in Artistic Endeavours: Violinist Esther Yoo speaks with Yekwon Sunwoo
’Everything that I do outside of my work as a soloist integrates into who I am as a musician’ - violinist Esther Yoo
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Trio Bohémo win 2021 Parkhouse Award
The Czech piano trio performed a programme of Brahms and Lizst to secure the top prize at Saturday’s finals
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Cellist Laura van der Heijden signs with Chandos Records
The 2012 BBC Young Musician winner will release her first album for the label in February 2022
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Maria Ioudenitch wins 2021 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition
The US-violinist scooped the top prize of €30,000, as well as a host of other awards and future concert engagements
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Prizes awarded at 12th International Vaclav Huml Violin Competition
Austrian-Swiss violinist Amia Janicki won 1st prize of €5000 in the final, held yesterday in Zagreb
