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ArticleBulgarian police may have tracked down 1696 Stradivari violin stolen in 2010
Police in Bulgaria believe they have recovered the 1696 Stradivari violin (left) that was stolen from a London sandwich bar in 2010. Undercover detectives in Sofia were offered a Stradivari for £250,000 in a sting operation on Hristo Varbanov, a Roma mafia crime boss. The instrument, ...
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13-year-old violinist Lara Boschkor wins Szeryng competition in Mexico
Lara Boschkor has won first prize in the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Toluca City, Mexico. The 13-year-old German, who is a student of Susanna Yoko Henkel at the University of Music and Dance, Cologne, received MXN350,000 (£18,000). Second prize went to Igor Pikaysen, 25, from Russia. British ...
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ArticleDouble blow for cellist
Airport security check that resulted in broken bow also damaged Alban Gerhardt's cello
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New York Philharmonic expands online digital archives with sheet music
The New York Philharmonic has added a large tranche of material to its digital archives, completing a three-year project to digitise orchestral parts, programmes and other documents dating from 1943 to 1970. The new material comprises more than 520,000 pages of marked instrument parts, encompassing nearly 1,200 works by ...
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ArticleViolin teacher gives $7m to school
USC Thornton School of Music receives gift from longtime professor
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ArticleSPCO violinist to join NY Phil
Principal Kyu-Young Kim quits locked-out St Paul Chamber Orchestra
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ArticleRNCM head of strings quits
Malcolm Layfield's position 'untenable' amid sexual misconduct allegations
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Cellists Christine Lamprea and Lev Mamuya win 2013 Sphinx Competition
Cellist Christine Lamprea, 22, has won first prize in the senior division of the Sphinx Competition in Detroit for young Black and Latino string players. Lamprea, who studies with Natasha Brofsky at the New England Conservatory in Boston, received $10,000. Second prize went to violist Dana Kelley, also 22. Double ...
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ArticleCellist to take Qatar role. Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
Han-Na Chang appointed music director of Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, High Fives and Handshakes all round
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ArticleLicence woes thwart radio gig
BBC broadcasts interview but no performance by twelve-year-old violinist
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ArticleSmetana Quartet cellist dies
Antonín Kohout founded great ensemble and guided the next generation of Czech quartets
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Chetham's violin teacher Wen Zhou Li arrested
A violin teacher at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has been arrested today on suspicion of rape. Wen Zhou Li, 57, who has taught at both institutions since 1996, is one of at least six current or former music teachers being investigated ...
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Viola player Kim Kashkashian wins Grammy award for recording of Kurtág and Ligeti
Kim Kashkashian won the award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo at the 2013 Grammy awards. The viola player received the honour on 10 February for her recording Kurtág & Ligeti: Music for Viola, which pairs György Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages with György Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Viola. The ...
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UK violinist Thomas Gould does a Joshua Bell busk
British violinist Thomas Gould went busking at Westminster Tube station on Wednesday, in a recreation of the famous Joshua Bell subway experiment that was arranged by the Washington Post in 2007. Gould, the concertmaster of the Aurora Orchestra and the associate concertmaster of the Britten Sinfonia, recreated the stunt for ...
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ArticleTop cellist Alban Gerhardt calls airport security staff ‘brutal and careless' after bow is damaged
Alban Gerhardt slams behaviour of officials at Dulles International Airport
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ArticleCampaigners welcome GCSE rethink
New performance measure of GCSEs in England will include creative subjects
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ArticleString soloists in Bach marathon
Viktoria Mullova and Alban Gerhardt star in nine-hour Royal Albert Hall event
