All News articles – Page 172
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NewsInternational Max Rostal Competition 2019 announces prize-winners
Tobias Reifland was awarded first prize in the viola category, receiving €7,000
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NewsAuryn Quartet to disband after 40 years
The quartet, which was founded in 1981, plans to disband at the end of the 2020-21 season
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NewsDocumentary based on 'Lipinski' Stradivarius robbery to be released
The film, based on the 2014 robbery, will be premiered in late April
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NewsJohan Dalene wins violin section of Nielsen Competition 2019
The violinist wins a cash award of €12,000, a CD recording with the Odense Symphony Orchestra on Orchid Records, and performance opportunities
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NewsThe Strad April 2019 issue is out now
Superstar violinist Augustin Hadelich often selects unusual concerto pairings for his recordings. His latest, combining Brahms and Ligeti, is no exception
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NewsTwo cellists and a violinist are Windsor Festival Competition finalists
Jamal Aliyev, Jonathan Swensen and Mathilde Milwidsky will perform in tomorrow’s final, held in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle
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NewsLandolfi violin at centre of legal dispute
A former Royal Academy of Music professor is alleged to owe a student thousands of pounds over part-exchange of violin
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NewsThree violin finalists announced at Nielsen Competition
Two-part final on Friday and Sunday will see all three play the Nielsen concerto plus another 19th- or 20th-century concerto of their choice
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NewsA Rostropovich Quiz
On the 92nd anniversary of the great cellist’s birth, the Strad team has put together ten questions about his life.
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NewsLuthier develops concept of the itinerant workshop
With the itinerant workshop, housed in a van or truck, Lydie Sauzet plans to go wherever the work is
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NewsNew String Quartet incorporating brain waves to be premiered by the JACK Quartet
During the performance, members of the quartet will be outfitted with sensors that detect brain activity
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News2019 Carl Nielsen competition announces semifinalists
With streaming and other television footage, this year’s competition has been turned into a festival-like experience
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NewsSemifinalists announced for Irving M. Klein String Competition
Nine semifinalists will compete for the grand prize this June
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NewsInaugural Stradfest takes place with diverse programme of events
Among the offerings was a Silent Quartet Roulette, performances from the Dover Quartet and Anne Akiko Meyers, the opportunity to try some of the world’s finest instruments, and a wide array of talks and workshops
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NewsPlay with Ray competition for Hollywood Bowl concert
Winner will Perform Bach’s Double Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Ray Chen
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NewsNielsen Competition kicks off today: who are the competitors, and what are the prizes?
The young violinists taking part in this year’s Carl Nielsen International Competition in Odense, Denmark, are today arriving and registering for what could be a career changing event. The violin event takes place in parallel with a clarinet and flute competition, reflecting the three instruments Nielsen wrote ...
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FocusPekka Kuusisto on his Greenpeace collaboration
Elegy for the Forest, Pekka Kuusisto’s short film made in collaboration with Greenpeace, aims to build awareness of deforestation. He speaks to Peter Quantrill about combining art and activism
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Gallery30 cellos in a Chicago swimming pool
Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl perform Water on the Bridge, a devised theatre and music piece, in and around the Eckhart Park pool in Chicago. The performance represented the first full-scale iteration of a project the two cellists have been working on since 2016, incorporating ‘elements of theatre, movement, and ...
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NewsNicolò Gagliano violin stolen in Berlin
A violin by Nicolò Gagliano made in Naples in 1769 was stolen without its case in Berlin on 11 March
