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NewsCellists can be adrenaline 'thrivers' or 'crumplers', finds study
Explore more Featured Stories like this in The Strad Playing Hub A new study into cellists’ behaviour has identified two different reactions to performing on stage. Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that the musicians could be categorised as either ‘thrivers’ or ‘crumplers’ when placed in a performance ...
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NewsAdrian Brendel appointed Nash Ensemble cellist
UK cellist Adrian Brendel has been appointed as a member of the Nash Ensemble. His first performance with the chamber music group will take place on 18 October at London's Wigmore Hall. The concert will mark the start of the ensemble's 50th anniversary season. Born in 1976, ...
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NewsYouth orchestra concertmaster, 18, loaned c.1685 ‘Sauret' Stradivarius violin
Roberto Ruisi, the 18-year-old concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB), will perform on the c.1685 ‘Sauret’ Stradivarius violin for the orchestra’s final three concerts this season. The instrument, valued at £1m, has been loaned by 83-year-old violinist and teacher John Ludlow, who in ...
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NewsNew international jazz violin competition awards first €10,000 prize
Bartosz Dworak has won the €10,000 first prize at the inaugural Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition. The 26-year-old received the award on 19 July at a gala concert in Kraków, Poland. The competition was held as part of the city’s 2014 Summer Jazz Festival. Second ...
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NewsFormer head of strings Malcolm Layfield charged with rape
The musician was formerly head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music and taught at Chetham's
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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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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 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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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 Hilary Hahn cancels all performances for six weeks
The star performer is suffering from an inflamed muscle
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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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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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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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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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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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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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NewsTop lots from June London and Vichy stringed instrument auctions
Gaglianos and a Peccatte shone in the sales
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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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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
