All News articles – Page 264
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma to receive the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award
US cellist Yo-Yo Ma has been named the recipient of the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award. The 58-year-old (pictured) will receive the honour at a ceremony on 23 May at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, location of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media.In ...
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ArticleViolist Dimitri Murrath and Calder Quartet to receive Avery Fisher career grants
The Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet and the Belgian violist Dimitri Murrath have each been named as recipients of Avery Fisher Career Grants for 2014. Worth $25,000, the grants give professional assistance to instrumentalists judged to have exceptional career potential. Formed in 1998 at the Thornton School ...
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ArticleYuri Bashmet loses honorary professorship at Lviv music academy
The violist, violinist and conductor Yuri Bashmet has been stripped of his title as honorary professor at the Lviv National Music Academy (LNMA) in Lviv, Ukraine. Bashmet, 61, was granted the title in 2012. According to a statement from the LNMA, the decision was taken in response ...
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ArticleToronto Symphony Orchestra cellists to give 22 ‘pop-up' performances
The performances will take place daily in unexpected locations as part of the Keep Toronto Reading festival
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ArticleLondon's Royal College of Music launches postgraduate string quartet programme
The new Artist Diploma provides an intense year of study for a pre-formed quartet
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ArticleStudy finds orchestras are judged more on what audiences see than what they hear
Research conducted at University College London pitted world-ranking orchestras against regional and university ensembles
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ArticlePacem in Terris competition awards cellist Valentino Worlitzsch €10,000 first prize
The event for young violinists and cellists takes place for the first time in seven years in Bayreuth
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti named Cheltenham Music Festival artist-in-residence
The UK festival celebrates its 70th birthday in July this year
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ArticleHungarian violinist and teacher Dénes Zsigmondy has died aged 91
Isabelle Faust pays tribute to her former teacher, who inspired her 2013 Bartók Violin Concertos recording on Harmonia Mundi
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ArticleResearch discovers links between wealth and musical skill
An online study involving 147,000 people finds correlations between affluence and musical sophistication and ability
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ArticleStudies reveal musical training in childhood aids language learning ability
Just one hour a week of musical interaction greatly increases linguistic aptitude, even into adulthood
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ArticleAriane Todes to leave The Strad
Ariane Todes, editor of The Strad, is to leave the magazine following a restructuring of the team to support the online and magazine sides of the brand. Todes joined the magazine in 2002 and became editor in June 2006. She will pursue a career as a freelance ...
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ArticleMenuhin Competition 2014 announces winners
Violinists Stephen Waarts and Rennosuke Fukuda triumph in the Senior and Junior Divisions
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ArticleThe Strad March 2014 issue is on sale now
German special celebrates the Mandelring Quartet's 30th anniversary and German string education
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ArticleSlatkin asks audiences to 'turn their cell phones on' at Detroit Symphony concert
Ensemble makes a bid to be ‘the most accessible orchestra on the planet'
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ArticleDouble bassist wins $50,000 Sphinx prize
Xavier Foley is the first bassist ever to win the Detroit competition for Black and Latino musicians
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ArticleIn Harmony Telford and Stoke launches new online teaching resource
The digital practice system will benefit just under 900 children in the area
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ArticleCellist Zoë Keating publishes 2013 earnings through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube
Streaming services accounted for less than ten per cent of her earnings last year
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ArticleViolinist Tatiana Samouil and violist Yuri Bashmet to perform at Winter Olympics closing ceremony
St Petersburg-born violinist Tatiana Samouil is to perform alongside her compatriot Yuri Bashmet in a concert at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi this Sunday, 23 February.The details of the concert are being kept secret, save for the fact that the programme will include ...
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ArticleBBC Radio 2 Folk Awards honour The Full English and fiddler Aidan O'Rourke
The Full English, including fiddlers Seth Lakeman and Sam Sweeney, takes two awards, while Aidan O'Rourke is named Musician of the Year
