All News articles – Page 195
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NewsARD Violin Competition awards no first prize – again
Munich event has many precedents of leaving the top spot empty, including at its last edition in 2013
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NewsBradetich Double Bass Competition names winner
Austrian 20-year-old Dominik Wagner takes $10,000 first prize and four-year career development deal
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NewsARD Competition announces violin finalists
Launched in 1952, the competition focuses each year on different instrumental categories, selected from 21 disciplines.
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NewsBradetich double bass competition heads into finals
Four finalists will compete for $10,000 top prize on Tuesday evening
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NewsRussian violinist and pedagogue Asya Kushner has died
Moscow media have reported the death of long-time Bolshoi Orchestra concertmaster and Moscow State Conservatory professor
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NewsNo first prize awarded at Tibor Varga Violin Competition
Swiss competition jury gives two second prizes after being unable to decide between 24-year-old Stella Chen and 16-year-old Saki Tozawa
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NewsViolinist, quartet and double bassist in new intake of BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3’s young classical talent platform accepts Aleksey Semenenko, Quatuor Arod and Misha Mullov-Abbado
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NewsThe lark descending – nudist viola player plays during naked sky dive
Australian violist Glen Donnelly’s stunt is raising money for body image charities
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NewsViolinist Dmitri Kogan dead at 38
Scion of Russian musical dynasty with international touring career dies of lymphatic cancer
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News17-year-old Anne Luisa Kramb takes top string prize at Manhattan Competition
Prize includes paid recital at Carnegie Hall to take place on 22 September this year
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NewsHighlights from Tarisio October auction: instruments by Santo Serafin and Andrea Guarneri
The online auctioneer’s full catalogue for the London-based auction will be released on 4 October
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NewsTrials of travelling musicians: violin not accepted as hand luggage on ferry
Scilly Steamship Company insists violin goes in the hold – yet maintains policy allowing two dogs per adult
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NewsObituary: Fredell Lack, 19 February 1922 - 20 August 2017
Child prodigy violinist who went on to be one of America’s most prolific teachers
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NewsViola player ‘humiliated’ by experience at British Airways check-in
Violist Rachel Roberts has called for a boycott of British Airways by musicians following a recent experience at the check-in counter at Dublin Airport
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NewsThe Strad September 2017 issue
is out nowCelebrated American violin tutor Dorothy DeLay remembered by former students, including Itzhak Perlman and Philippe Quint
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NewsProtest violinist Wuilly Arteaga released from custody in Venezuela
Violinst trained in El Sistema, who has become familiar face of anti-government protests, was arrested three weeks ago
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NewsNew violin created to commemorate first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon
The instrument is made from the same branch as Wilfred Owen violin made in 2014, from a sycamore in the grounds of the hospital where they met
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NewsGuadagnini back in action in the hands of Daniel Auner
Young Viennese violinist has been loaned 1752 Milan-period instrument by National Bank of Austria collection
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NewsViolist Matthew Jones named Guildhall School head of chamber music
Announcement confirms position Jones has held provisionally since January 2016
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NewsTeenage girl jailed for acid in viola case attack
Scottish schoolgirl booby-trapped love rival’s instrument case with drain cleaner
