All News articles – Page 212
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NewsRoyal Academy of Music's head of strings responds to criticism from violinist Nigel Kennedy
The British violinist accused music colleges of producing 'factory lines' of pianists and violinists
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NewsVision String Quartet wins Geneva Competition
The German ensemble, which also won the Mendelssohn Quartet Prize earlier this year, receives CHF 20,000
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NewsFinancially hit Orchestra della Svizzera italiana vows to 'start over'
The OSI has published a defiant response on its Facebook page, following news of a possible closure due to funding cuts
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NewsOrchestra della Svizzera italiana faces closure due to funding cuts
The ensemble's 46 musicians and staff have been informed that their jobs may be terminated at the close of 2017
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NewsViolinist Svetlin Roussev named concertmaster of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
The Bulgarian violinist is a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and winner of the inaugural Sendai International Violin Competition in 2001
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NewsYoo Na Ha wins Mirecourt International Violin Competition 2016
The 25-year-old South Korean violinist receives €5,000 in addition to the special prize for 'best personality'
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NewsViolinist Stephen Tavani named Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra concertmaster
The 24-year-old violinist is currently a student at the Curtis Institute of Music
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NewsViolin, viola, cello and bow makers honoured at 2016 VSA competition
Hungarian luthier Gábor Draskóczy scores double gold in violin category
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NewsNorwegian Air refuses to refund extra luggage charge for violin
Violinist Ellen Fjærvoll Samdal claims the airline refused to allow her entry on a flight to Prague because she was carrying her violin and a purse as hand baggage
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NewsNew research finds we respond intellectually to classical music and physically to pop music
The team from China set out to prove that 'pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological'
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NewsSphinx Organization receives National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award
The initiative, which aims to 'transform lives through the power of diversity in the arts', was honoured by US First Lady Michelle Obama in the White House
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NewsViolinist Nigel Kennedy considers leaving 'fascist' UK for Germany
The British musician was speaking to Sky News about the result of the UK's Brexit referendum
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NewsThe Strad December 2016 issue is out now
British violinist Tasmin Little describes how lessons with Yehudi Menuhin informed her new disc of Vivaldi's Four Seasons
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NewsLong-serving Boston Symphony principal cellist Jules Eskin has died, aged 85
Eskin served as principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 53 years and was a founding member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players
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NewsMet concertmaster David Chan named Montclair Orchestra music director
Chan, who has served as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for 17 years, will take up his new Montclair post from the ensemble's inaugural 2017-2018 season
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NewsViolinist Benjamin Baker and double bassist Xavier Foley named 2016 Young Concert Artists
Each musician receives three major debuts in New York and Washington D.C. next season, and will join the roster of Young Concert Artists Inc.
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NewsLondon Philharmonic Orchestra musician's Vuillaume violin goes missing from train
The instrument has now been recovered safely after it was handed in to police by a member of the public
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NewsPianist to be evicted from apartment for loud practising
American pianist Soheil Nasseri is to be evicted from his Berlin apartment in just 13 days following a noise complaint
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NewsApplications open for Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition
Open to applicants aged 21 or under, the contest is due to take place next year at the UK's Birmingham Conservatoire
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News17-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason signs to Decca Classics
The British cellist was the first black musician to be named BBC Young Musician in the competition's 38-year history in 2016
