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NewsViolinist, 5, awarded distinction in grade 8 exam
Travis Wong Kai Xuan, from Singapore, could barely read or write when he had his first violin lesson at the age of three
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NewsProject 80/90 opens second round of grants for double bassists in need
The initiative founded by double bassists Gary Karr and François Rabbath is open to all double bassists, including those who previously received a grant
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NewsMenuhin competition announces Junior and Senior semi-finalists
The semi-final rounds will be streamed on 15 and 16 May
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NewsPostponed Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition to return this autumn
The 36 contestants appearing in the Quarter-Final round have been announced
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NewsThe Strad May 2021 issue is out now
We mark the 70th birthday of British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber with a look back at his life and career
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis May 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees
A new campaign is under way to save Brazil’s endangered pernambuco tree, the wood most favoured by bow makers. The goal is clear, but the devil is in the detail. By Anthony Fort
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: May 2021
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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NewsPhilharmonia to return to live music-making at the Southbank Centre in June
The concerts, on 4 and10 June, will also be the last in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as the orchestra’s Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor
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NewsFrench lutenist signs to Warner Classics
Thomas Dunford performs with Jupiter, the instrumental ensemble he founded in 2018, on the forthcoming Erato release Amazone
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NewsCellist appointed as director at Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music in Georgia, USA
Jesús Castro-Balbi takes on his new role from 1 July
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NewsJourney through the Australian outback with cellist Richard Narroway
Funded by the Freedman Classical Fellowship, Narroway’s performances along the 3000km train route will be turned into a film
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NewsViolist Rosalind Ventris and conductor Joseph Fort announced as Artistic Directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival
Under the direction of the husband-and-wife team, the festival is set to return with a series of live concerts
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NewsLondon-based concertmaster practises and composes music during shifts as an Uber driver
Raffaele Pagano took on work as an Uber driver after Covid-19 put his musical career on hold
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ArticleViolist Geraldine Walther to head Colburn School chamber programme
Walther spent 14 years with the Takács Quartet, following almost three decades as prinicpal violist of the San Francisco Symphony
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NewsViolinist María Dueñas scoops €15,000 Rheingau Music Festival award
Given by the festival annually, the prize is intended to be ‘recognition and incentive in equal measure’
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra players return thanks to new acoustic screen
The orchestra has announced two months of performances with live audiences from 19 May
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NewsFormer Toronto Symphony concertmaster Gerard Kantarjian has died
Kantarjian, who was 90, was born in Cairo and studied with Ivan Galamian in Philadelphia
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NewsViolinist Jessie Montgomery appointed Chicago Symphony composer in residence
Montgomery’s three-year position will see her write a series of new orchestral and chamber works
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NewsBoosey & Hawkes launches YouTube contest for string duos
An audio recording of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne by the winning duo will be synced to the work’s score on Boosey & Hawkes’ monthly YouTube series
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NewsConcertgebouw violist Peter Sokole has died
Sokole, who has died from Covid-19, spent almost three decades assistant principal violist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
