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NewsCarolin Widmann receives 2020 Duisburg City Music Prize
The annual award, worth €10,000, was given to Widmann for her continued commitment to the city’s musical scene
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Daniel Pioro joins Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as Associate Artist
In his new role the violinist has launched a new contemporary music collective featuring students at the RCS
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Barbican to bring back concerts for socially distanced live audiences
The Live from the Barbican series will be accessible online as well as for a reduced, socially-distanced live audience from 17 May
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Anne-Sophie Mutter to become president of German Cancer Aid
The German violinist takes over the role from Fritz Pleitgen
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Wigmore Hall to reopen with 25-concert anniversary festival
Tickets for all 25 concerts in the re-opening festival are available initially on a ballot basis to Friends of Wigmore Hall
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Important Mozart discovery to be auctioned in Berlin on 16 April
Previously part of a German private collection, the manuscript sheds light on the genesis of two Mozart compositions
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Juilliard launches streaming initiative to share performances with a global audience
The Livestream Performance Schedule includes over 250 recitals from April to June
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Royal Academy of Music livestreams 25 concerts in April and May
Highlights include a residency from Sir Mark Elder, the return of the ‘Bach the European’ series and a performance of Dido and Aeneas
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Streamed concert to champion climate optimism
Singers and players to perform Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ over YouTube
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Luthier William Monical has died
The New-York-based luthier was an expert on bowed string instruments, particularly those of the Baroque period
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Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff receives Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship
The €100,000 award will go towards a film project centred on Bach’s Cello Suites
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French festival in memory of Ivry Gitlis to take place in July
The lineup at the Colmar International Festival’s 32nd edition will include Maxim Vengerov and Viktoria Mullova
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Southbank Sinfonia and St John’s Smith Square join forces
The graduate training orchestra and London concert venue to become a ‘hub for world-class musical development’
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New York Philharmonic announces accelerated reopening of concert hall
The renovation will now be completed in late 2022, almost two years earlier than previously scheduled
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French luthier Philippe Dupuy dies aged 88
The grandson of Eugène Sartory, Dupuy was an accomplished violin maker and author in his own right
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50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death to be marked by series of events
A number of performances - many of them streamed - will pay tribute to the Russian composer over the next month
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Italians play ‘Accelerations’ waltz in protest at slow vaccine rollout
Johann Strauss II’s famous accellerando chosen ’to highlight the need to speed up vaccine delivery’, says organiser
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Several music venues receive support from second round of UK Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
The London Symphony Orchestra and Wigmore Hall are among the recipients
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Kadiatu and Stuart Kanneh-Mason join Music Masters board of trustees
The parents of the Kanneh-Mason children will now serve on the Music Masters board
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Thousands demand plaque for renowned Black violinist in Bath
A petition demands a memorial for George Polgreen Bridgetower, who gave the first public performance of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
