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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In these environmentally aware times, players will be conscious of the long-term impact of the strings they’re using. What are manufacturers doing to set their minds at rest? Peter Somerford finds out
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions and Award Winners: November
Chinese violinist Ming Liu, 24, has won China’s Harbin International Music Competition. She receives $50,000. Liu studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Vera Tsu Weiling. Second prize went to Sinying Chan, 22, from Hong Kong, and third prize to Haram Kim, 21, from South Korea. The Zhuhai ...
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NewsInfluential Italian luthier Renato Scrollavezza has died
Born in poverty and initially self taught, he went on to mentor generations of violin makers at his lutherie school in Parma
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NewsNielsen Chamber Music Competition begins in Copenhagen
Seven string quartets and eight wind quintets compete this week in the second edition of the competition
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NewsPrizes awarded at 5th Karol Lipiński Violin Competition
Event in Toruń, Poland, hands out €50,000 in cash prizes
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NewsCellist protest at British Airways check-in desk
Musicians stranded at Basel airport following booking problems give impromptu performance
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NewsHollywood Bowl Orchestra names new concertmaster
Kathryn Eberle steps into chair which has remained vacant for over a year following death of Katia Popov
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Takács Quartet to welcome new violist in 2020
As the group celebrates its 45th year, Richard O’Neill will take over from Geraldine Walther
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ArticleLaureates named at Mazzacurati International Cello competition
Dutch cellist Anton Spronk takes the Turin event’s first prize, plust audience and orchestra awards
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NewsRenaud Capuçon raises €100,000 for Notre Dame
The violinist and friends went on a tour of six French cathedrals with proceeds going to the restoration
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NewsOrchestra of St. Luke’s appoints new violist
Katarzyna Bryla-Weiss has regularly freelanced with the orchestra over the last seven seasons
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NewsFreiburg Philharmonic Orchestra appoints new concertmaster
Maria Azova has been appointed as the ensemble’s 1st Concertmaster
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter speaks out on mobile phone filming incident
‘Then she takes out a second phone, and a power bank … I’m totally out of the flow, ’ violinist tells the New York Times
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NewsCellist, violist and trio among the 2019 Concert Artists Guild winners
New York recital and management contract are part of package for winners of the Victor Elmaleh Competition
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NewsNew structure announced for Joseph Joachim competition
The triennial competition announces new jury structure and new prize structure
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NewsParis street inaugurated as Promenade Yehudi Menuhin
Side road near Unesco headquarters named in honour of the violinist’s presidency of the International Music Council
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter interrupts concerto to demand audience member stops filming
The German violinist was playing the Beethoven concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on Saturday
