All News articles – Page 186
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NewsCancer claims Hollywood concertmaster at 50
Katia Popov, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra concertmaster and prolific film session musician, was in treatment for ovarian cancer but still working
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VideoVideo: Ray Chen entertains airline passengers with Bach
The violinist plays the Gavotte from Partita no.3 aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Lisbon which had to take an unscheduled stop at Porto
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NewsThe Strad June 2018 issue is out now
Examining the world’s most expensive violin, the ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri ‘Del Gesù’, plus Anne Akiko Meyers discusses playing it
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NewsUpdated: Lost Ysaÿe sonata receives first performance by Philippe Graffin
Manuscript fascimile and transcript for lost unfinished Ysaÿe sonata now available to view online
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NewsCallisto Quartet wins Fischoff Chamber Music Competition
Cleveland Institute of Music student ensemble wins $13,500 gold medal plus a number of engagements
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NewsNo cello first prize awarded at Prague Spring Competition
Václav Petr, a concertmaster cellist with the Czech Philharmonic, is awarded second prize
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NewsPianist Lauren Zhang wins BBC Young Musician 2018
American born 16-year-old Royal Birmingham Conservatoire student impressed judges with performance of Prokofiev Concerto no.2
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NewsCellist Maxim Calver through to BBC Young Musician final
Eighteen-year-old Menuhin School student will perform in televised final on Sunday alongside saxophonist and pianist
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News$1m birthday present for Academy of St Martin in the Fields
British chamber orchestra gearing up for 60th annivesary in 2019 receives major gift from US patron
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NewsCello semi-finalists announced at Prague Spring Festival
Competition chooses twelve cellists to proceed to semi-final round at Academy of Performing Arts in Czech capital
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ArticleJennifer Stumm's viola sets off airport explosive detector
The American violist was travelling through London’s Gatwick airport when an explosive trace detection machine picked up a false positive on her instrument case
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NewsWinners named at $100,000 M-Prize Chamber Music Competition
New York based Aizuri Quartet takes grand prize at University of Michigan School of Music competition
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NewsHerman Krebbers, 1923-2018
Soloist, teacher and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Haitink years concertmaster, dies at 94
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NewsUK classical musicians struggling following years of funding cuts
Musicians’ Union research finds that 44% of UK orchestral musicians ‘don’t earn enough to live on’
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News15-year-old violinist María Dueñas wins Yankelevitch Competition
Spanish teenager wins first prize and 1890 violin by Eugenio Degani at Omsk-based competition
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NewsWanda Wiłkomirska, one of Poland’s foremost violinists and pedagogues, has died
Violinist who emigrated to Australia later in life, was as celebrated a teacher as she had been an international performer
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NewsThe Strad May 2018 issue is out now
Ray Chen discusses the importance of social media and popular culture in encouraging a new generation of players
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NewsMilan Škampa, 1928-2018: the last of the Smetana Quartet
Milan Škampa, for many years violist of the Smetana Quartet and the last survivor of the six men who played in the group, died at his Prague home on 14 April. He would have turned 90 in June.
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NewsECHO prize scrapped following antisemitic rap complaints
The German music industry awards ceremony, which has run annually since 1992, will cease to exist in current form. ECHO Klassik and ECHO Jazz will also be affected
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NewsPavel Haas Quartet welcomes new violist
Violist Jiří Kabát has taken over from Radim Sedmidubský, who joined in 2016 from fellow Czech ensemble the Škampa Quartet
