All News articles – Page 213
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NewsViolinist Gidon Kremer receives Praemium Imperiale Award, worth £100,000
The Japan Art Association
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NewsARD International Music Competition 2016 names double bass and string quartet winners
Held annually in Germany since 1952, the contest focuses on different instrument categories each year
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NewsViolinist forced to store unprotected instrument at his feet on Vueling flight
José Manuel Jiménez García posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page
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NewsViolin makers to build string quartet of instruments for live audience in Vienna
The four-day event features 18 luthiers and will include workshops and talks
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NewsRare Hill bows go on show in Oxford
Exhibition dedicated to celebrated British workshop W.E. Hill & Sons opens at university museum
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NewsRoyal Scottish National Orchestra names Lena Zeliszewska as associate principal first violin
The violinist takes up her new role at the beginning of the orchestra's 2016-17 season
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NewsScottish Chamber Orchestra appoints three new front desk string players
The orchestra welcomes a new principal cello, principal second violin and sub principal viola
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NewsElizabeth Fayette appointed Vega String Quartet first violinist
The ensemble is quartet in residence at Emory University in Atlanta
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition reveals finalists' scores
Japanese violinist Mayu Kishima won the contest's $100,000 first prize last week
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NewsViolinist Maxim Vengerov appointed visiting professor at London's Royal College of Music
The virtuoso performer will visit the college at least three times per year
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NewsRolston Quartet wins Banff International String Quartet Competition $150,000 top prize
The ensemble receives a cash award of $25,000 in addition to a three-year artistic and career development programme of concert tours, residencies and recordings
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NewsBanff International String Quartet Competition 2016 names three finalists
The three chosen quartets will compete for a first prize worth $150,000
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NewsMayu Kishima wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition $100,000 first prize
The announcement follows two days of finals during which six violinists performed a concerto and a virtuosic work with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
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NewsTips for playing a concerto for the first time with orchestra
Top teachers Boris Kuschnir, Mimi Zweig and Géza Szilvay answer a reader's question for The Strad's Teacher Talk section
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NewsBirmingham Conservatoire appoints International String Instrument Expert
Florian Leonhard will visit the UK music school regularly to work with students and staff
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NewsInternational Federation of Musicians publishes ranking of airline musical instrument policies
The international organisation for musicians' unions has ranked airline policies as red, amber and green
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NewsFormer Berlin Philharmonic principal cellist Eberhard Finke has died aged 96
The cellist was also a founding member of the 12 cellos of the Berlin Philharmonic ensemble
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition reveals scores of eliminated semi-finalists
The violinists are competing for a top prize of $100,000 from 14 August to 2 September 2016
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition announces six finalists
The violinists are competing for a top prize of $100,000 from 14 August to 2 September 2016
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News300-year-old violin taken from London train is recovered safely
The Maggini instrument, beloning to Baroque musician Jane Gordon, was taken from the overhead luggage rack of the train from London Waterloo
