All News articles – Page 202
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NewsViolist Hana Hobiger wins Fritz Gerber Award for young Swiss musicians
The prize includes a cash prize of CHF 10,000 and a scholarship to the Lucerne Festival Academy
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NewsInaugural Bartók World Competition and Festival names 65 shortlisted violinists
The candidates will take part in four live rounds from 10-17 September 2017 at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, performing some of Bartók's principal works
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NewsBBC Proms 2017 season revealed - including a feast of violin concertos
The 123rd Proms season takes place in London’s Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall over eight weeks from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September
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NewsViolist Masumi Per Rostad joins Eastman School of Music string faculty
The Japanese-Norwegian musician has performed as a member of the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet since 2001
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NewsCellist Sol Gabetta to receive €50,000 Herbert von Karajan prize 2018
The Argentinian artist will be awarded the accolade at the 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she will also perform Schumann's Cello Concerto
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NewsViolinist Emily Sun wins Bromsgrove International Musicians Competition
The UK-based contest is open to instrumentalists and vocalists of all nationalities aged between 18 and 25
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NewsMidori Seiler appointed Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar professor of Baroque violin
The Bavarian-Japanese violinist had previously been appointed to the role from 2010 to 2013
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NewsCellist Jamal Aliyev wins Musicians’ Company Prince’s Prize Competition
The Azerbaijani musician receives £10,000 and a Musicians’ Company silver medal
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NewsMaggini Quartet violinist David Angel has died, aged 62
Angel, who was conducting a Maggini Quartet course in Oxford at the time of his death, performed as the British ensemble's second violinist since its inception in 1988
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NewsEtihad Airways refuses to allow violins in the cabin due to recent policy change
The airline has changed its hand baggage policy and is now refusing to allow any musical instruments in the cabin, as folk musician Caitlín Nic Gabhann discovered during a tour earlier this month
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NewsViolinist Lisa Ji Eun Kim to join the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kim, who is currently serving as a second violinist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, has previously performed as a BSO substitute player
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NewsLeading French bow maker Bernard Millant has died aged 87
Descended from a long line of French luthiers, Millant produced bows based on his own design and was the author of the definitive book on French bows
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NewsCellist forced to leave American Airlines flight as his instrument poses 'safety risk'
John Kaboff had boarded the flight from Washington DC to Chicago when the pilot asked that he leave the 737 aircraft, he says
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NewsComposer and ex-violinist Òscar Colomina i Bosch to be Menuhin School director of music
Spanish composer and former violinist Òscar Colomina I Bosch has been named as the next director of music at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, UK. The 39-year-old will take up the post in September 2017, succeeding Malcolm Singer.Currently professor of orchestration at London's Royal Academy of Music ...
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NewsViolist Tabea Zimmermann wins Artist of the Year at ICPA Awards
The International Classical Music Awards, given annually to the year’s finest classical artists and recordings, were announced on 1 April at a ceremony in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Germany. Among the special prize winners was viola player Tabea Zimmermann (pictured), who received the Artist of the Year award. ...
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NewsCellist Steven Isserlis to receive €25,000 award in Germany
British cellist Steven Isserlis has been named as the winner of the 2017 Glashütte Original MusicFestivalAward. Worth €25,000, the award will be presented at the Dresden Music Festival on 23 May, when Isserlis will perform Prokofiev's Cello Concerto in E minor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under ...
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NewsBirmingham Conservatoire viola student breaks world record dressed as a musical instrument
Alistair Rutherford broke the Guinness World Record for running the fastest half marathon in an instrument costume in Liverpool on Sunday
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NewsFormer Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Thomas Brandis has died aged 81
The violinist was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic between 1962 and 1983, and founded the Brandis Quartet
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News300-year-old Goffriller violin stolen from London Gatwick Express train
London violinist Carol Slater has issued a plea for the return of her instrument, which went missing from the overhead luggage rack a week ago
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NewsLondon concert venue The Forge to close
The Camden performing arts venue, which has hosted a wide range of musical genres over eight years, will shut at the end of this week
