All News articles – Page 248
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NewsMusic competitions are rife with corruption, says cellist Julian Lloyd Webber
The British musician claims many competitions exist ‘only as a way for teachers to promote their own pupils'
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NewsViolinist Frances Andrade ‘failed' by mental health services, says coroner
The 48-year-old musician took her own life after giving evidence of sexual abuse against former Chetham's School of Music teacher Michael Brewer
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NewsLipinski Stradivarius violin thief receives three-and-a-half-year prison sentence
Universal Knowledge Allah admitted supplying the Taser used to attack Milwaukee Symphony concertmaster Frank Almond
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NewsViolinist and pedagogue Ik-Hwan Bae has died aged 57
The South-Korean-born artist taught at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn cancels all performances for six weeks
The star performer is suffering from an inflamed muscle
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NewsJapanese student wins violin category of International Bach Competition
Seiji Okamoto triumphed at the final, held in Leipzig, Germany on 18 July
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NewsJoshua Bell renews music director contract with Academy of St Martin in the Fields
The violinist has signed a three-year extension until summer 2017
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NewsISM's Protect Music Education secures £17m in extra funding for UK children
The Incorporated Society of Musicians' project was launched in April in response to proposed government cuts
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NewsViolinist Shlomo Mintz named Queensland Symphony Orchestra soloist-in-residence
The artist will join the orchestra as its inaugural resident soloist in 2015
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NewsThe Strad August 2014 issue is out now
The issue marks the centenary of World War I with a music and conflict theme
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NewsTop lots from June London and Vichy stringed instrument auctions
Gaglianos and a Peccatte shone in the sales
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra musicians to appear in ‘Addicts' Symphony' documentary
The programme, to be broadcast on Channel 4 in August, features LSO Discovery's work with ten addicts
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NewsGerman radio orchestra merger looking increasingly likely
The Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra are set to unite in 2016
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NewsVideo: Violinist Itzhak Perlman campaigns for universal polio vaccination
The artist contracted the disease when he was four years old
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NewsUK lutherie student receives Special Award from Rowan Armour-Brown Memorial Trust
The inaugural award recognises students of particular potential
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NewsConductor, composer and violinist Lorin Maazel has died aged 84
The American maestro forged an international career for 75 years
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NewsViolinist Nicola Benedetti breaks UK chart top 20 with her new album
Not since Vanessa Mae and Nigel Kennedy has a solo British violinist featured in the top 20 pop chart
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NewsUniversity of Michigan appoints violinist Danielle Belen to its string faculty
The musician is a seasoned pedagogue and member of the Colburn School violin faculty
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NewsCharles Castleman appointed professor of violin at Miami's Frost School of Music
The violinist is currently a professor at the Eastman School of Music in New York
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News1710 ‘Ivashkin' Guarneri cello loaned to Canadian Korean artist Soo Bae
The instrument was previously on permanent loan to the late Russian cellist Alexander Ivashkin
