All News articles – Page 202
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NewsMenuhin Competition 2018 announces 44 successful candidates for live rounds
Over 90% of participants began playing the violin before the age of five and average age across junior and senior categories has dropped to 15 for the first time, with the youngest aged ten and oldest 21
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NewsBaroque string specialist working for music publisher forced to leave UK after visa non renewal
An announcement from Schott Music has highlighted how changes to Visa rules have disproportionate effects on the arts world
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NewsHappy ending for musician whose violin disappeared from tour bus
Morven Bryce’s 1996 John Dilworth, thought to have fallen onto the road due to a faulty luggage compartment door, was missing for six weeks before being sold to Cash Converters for £35
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NewsObituary: viola and violin soloist Luigi Alberto Bianchi, 1945-2018
Menuhin protégé who in later years swapped fluidly between violin and viola, and whose career was punctuated by the thefts of two famous instruments
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NewsLuck holds out for violist whose instrument went missing twice in two months
RSNO member Fiona West and violinist colleague reunited with stolen instruments
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NewsDestroyed viola da gamba update: further info from owner, plus Alitalia responds
Myrna Herzog explains circumstances while airline claims investigations ongoing but that signed ‘limited release’ form effectively absolves it of responsibility
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NewsViola da gamba travelling in the hold for Alitalia flight destroyed by baggage handlers
Instrument belonging to early music specialist Myrna Herzog could be beyond effective repair
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NewsUnlucky violist has instrument stolen in Glasgow – six weeks after it was taken from a train and turned up in lost property
Violin and viola belonging to members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra stolen from the RSNO Centre in Glasgow on 30 December – a £1000 reward per instrument has been offered for their return
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NewsRobert Mann, founding member of the Juilliard Quartet, dies aged 97
Robert Mann, photographed for the documentary Speak the Music: Robert Mann and the Mysteries of Chamber Music US violinist Robert Mann, a founding member of the Juilliard Quartet, died on New Year’s Day at the age of 97. A teacher at both Juilliard and the Manhattan School ...
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NewsBritish Airways and musicians: an explainer
Recent coverage has served to confuse matters, with suggestions that the airline had changed its policy to effectively ban small instruments as hand luggage – this was never the case
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NewsThe Strad January 2018 issue is out now
Yo-Yo Ma’s initiative to encourage young players in Guangdong, and his enthusiasm for making all kinds of connections
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NewsTwo new members among big changes for Fine Arts Quartet in 72nd season
Milwaukee based chamber group is changing both viola and cello, while also ending its University of Wisconsin residency after 55 seasons
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NewsKian Soltani wins $75,000 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
Austrian-Iranian cellist chosen for biennial award which inlcudes a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic during 2018 Lucerne Festival
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FocusJoey Corpus remembered: a profile from the November 2001 issue of The Strad
In this interview feature by Barbara L. Sand, Joey Corpus, who has died at the age of 59, discusses his late start as a musician, living with a disability, and his teaching philosophy
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NewsBritish Airways again at the centre of complaint from violinist
Staff confusion over supposed policy change appears at fault as chamber group made to buy four extra seats for instruments
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NewsNo fine for André Rieu as court sides with violinist over Dutch child employment law violation
Child pan pipers involved in series of Maastricht concerts in in 2015 worked beyond allowable hours – but were not employed by Rieu, court conceeds
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NewsTourte bow demolishes price records in French auction
Violin bow by François Xavier Tourte sells for €576,600 (c.$687,000) at Vichy Enchères the day after same house breaks record for violin by Vuillaume
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NewsNew record set for Vuillaume violin once owned by Eugène Ysaÿe
Vichy Enchères sale of Bernard Millant collection sees J.B. Vuillaume reach €260,000
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NewsClassical strings in the 60th Grammy Awards nominations
The Recording Academy unveils nominations for all categories, including nods for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Augustin Hadelich, Steven Isserlis and Frank Peter Zimmermann
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NewsBent Sørensen wins Grawemeyer Award for 'gentle, introspective' triple concerto
$100,000 composition award for concerto with violin, cello and piano soloists premiered by Trio con Brio Copenhagen and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in 2016
