All News articles – Page 168
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NewsFischoff Chamber Music Competition announces winners
Gold Medals went to the Merz Trio in the Senior String Division and the Fervida Trio in the Junio String Division
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NewsBernard Haitink to retire from conducting
The 90-year-old Dutch conductor will make his last podium appearance in September
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NewsBordeaux International String Quartet Competition announces winners
The Marmen and Simply Quartets will each receive a three-year international tour
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NewsFull details for Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams album
Violinist and legendary film composer team up for virtuoso violin versions of movie themes from Star Wars to Harry Potter
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NewsDouble bass travelling with Air Canada arrives soaking wet
Extensive varnish damage suffered by instrument which bassist Michael Gaisbacher had received on trial less just a few days earlier
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter receives Polar Music Prize at Stockholm ceremony
The violinist praises Swedish role models, from the stories of Pippi Longstocking to environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg
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NewsYuri Sheykhet has died
The violinist, who played in the world premiere of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13, was 85
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NewsLive Music Now founder-president Ian Stoutzker receives knighthood
Stoutzker is best known for Live Music Now, the musical charitable initiative he created with Yehudi Menuhin in 1977
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NewsAnna Im wins Michael Hill International Violin Competition
The South Korean violinist receives NZ$40,000, a recording contract, a tour across New Zealand and Australia and a professional development programme
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NewsJoshua Brown wins Leopold Mozart Competition
The American violinist wins €20,000, a CD production package and performance invitations
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NewsJanine Jansen joins faculty at Swiss music college
The Dutch violinist will be taking over the Pavel Vernikov’s class at the Sion campus of the Haute école de musique
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NewsMichael Hill International Violin Competition reaches finals
The New Zealand competition has announced the three who proceed to its concerto final in Auckland
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ArticleHao Zhou wins Montreal violin competition
American takes first prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal with performance of Shostakovich Violin Concerto no.1
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NewsLeopold Mozart Violin Competition reaches final three
The finalists, left to right, Kaoru Oe, Karisa Chiu and Joshua Brown The triennial Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg, Germany, has named the three finalists of its 10th edition, taking place in the 300th year since Leopold Mozart’s birth. The finalists are: Joshua Brown (USA) Karisa ...
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NewsNicola Benedetti to become NYO ambassador
As part of the Young Ambassadors scheme, Benedetti will help to support the professional development of NYO musicians and alumni, and students in their final and post-graduate years at UK music conservatoires
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NewsJames Baik wins Irving M. Klein International String Competition
He receives $13,000 as well as various performance opportunities
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NewsMontreal competition announces final six
Players perform for chance to win prizes worth CA$150,000
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News10th International Leopold Mozart Violin Competition announces semi-finalists
Twelve violinists will proceed to the competition’s second round
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NewsBaltimore Symphony cancels summer concerts after failing to agree pay deal
The announcement cites ‘fiscal reform, improvement efforts’ and intention to reduce its activities from 52 to 40 weeks per year
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NewsThe Strad June 2019 issue is out now
Why is it that so many of the great luthier’s violins don’t fit the moulds we have for them?
