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NewsIce cello performance comes to Huddersfield
An ice cello, dyed black with food colouring, will be played by a cellist in a wetsuit, as part of this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
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NewsLeon Bosch awarded honorary Fellowship of RNCM
The double bassist will receive his award at the college on 10th December
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NewsYo-Yo Ma’s Bach Prelude recording hits 100M streams
The cellist is the first core classical artist to reach this number of streams on Spotify with one track
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NewsInaugural Stuttgart International Violin Competition announced for 2021
The first Stuttgart International Violin Competition takes place in February 2021, with a prize fund of €50,000
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NewsSteven Isserlis to join roster of Columbia artists New York
The cellist will be managed by Martin Wittenberg
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NewsBoris Pergamenschikow Prizes awarded
Prizes from the Berlin-based competition for contemporary chamber music go to the Trio Tempestoso and the Nerida Quartet
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NewsIsraeli charity concert cancelled after outcry over exclusion of women singers
Rabbi cancels charity concert after his request to exclude women singers sparks public uproar
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NewsWinners announced at Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists
Phoenix Avalon from the US wins 1st prize in the senior category
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NewsRare portrait of Mozart as a teenager auctioned in Paris
The painting, attributed to the Italian master Giambettino Cignaroli, will be sold at Christie’s Paris on 27 November
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NewsOleh Krysa International Violin Competition awards prizes
Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis takes 1st prize of €20,000
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NewsViolinist reunited with Tecchler violin left on London train
Musician Stephen Morris describes shock as 310-year-old instrument is returned
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NewsJitka Šuranská, violinist and folk singer, has died
Jitka Šuranská playing in Brno in 2014 The Czech violinist and singer Jitka Šuranská, who was known for her interpretation of Moravian folk songs, has died of cancer, aged 41. A graduate of the Šuranská Conservatory in Brno, Šuranská, who came from Kudlovice in the Zlín ...
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NewsViolinist and chamber musician Břetislav Novotný 1924-2019
Leader of the Prague String Quartet, soloist and pedagogue has died aged 95
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NewsCurtis Institute appoints Midori to endowed faculty chair
The violinist takes the chair held by Aaron Rosand until his retirement in May 2019
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NewsFinalists named at Spohr Competition for Young Violinists
The event’s 9th edition reaches the final stages across three age categories in Weimar, Germany
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ArticleCompetitions and Award Winners: December
Elias David Moncado Elias David Moncado has won the €20,000 top prize at the International Karol Lipiński Violin Competition in Toruń, Poland. Moncado, 18, of German–Spanish and Malaysian descent, is a student of Pierre Amoyal at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Second prize went to Robert Łaguniak, 22, from ...
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NewsSheku Kanneh-Mason returns with new Elgar album
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason is to release his new album, Elgar, in January 2020
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NewsViolinist Hansheinz Schneeberger, 1926-2019
The Swiss musician, who has died aged 93, premiered concertos by Bartók and Frank Martin
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NewsTecchler violin missing after being left on train in London
The 1709 instrument, worth a reported £250,000, was lost on Tuesday evening
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NewsDocumentary today celebrates Elgar’s Cello Concerto centenary
Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which was premiered 100 years ago today, is the subject of a two-hour programme on Classic FM
