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Bavarian violin maker Geigenbau Leonhardt receives export award
A lutherie firm based in Mittenwald, Germany, has received an export award from the Bavarian economics ministry. Geigenbau Leonhardt was recognised for its innovative approaches to marketing to overseas territories. The firm was one of four south German companies honoured by the ministry. Announcing the prizes, economics minister Martin ...
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Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh wins at Amsterdam Cello Biennale
Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh has won the first prize at the 2012 Amsterdam Cello Biennale. The 21-year-old received €8,000 as well as the €1,000 audience prize. Finland's Jonathan Roozeman, 15, took the €6,000 second prize, and American cellist Jonathan Butler came third, receiving €4,000. Butler was also awarded €1,000 for ...
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Violin, viola, cello and bow makers honoured at VSA competition
Sixteen gold medals were awarded at the Violin Society of America’s international makers' competition held in Cleveland, Ohio, on 15 November. Feng Jiang, who is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, won gold medals for both tone and workmanship in the violin category – a feat that has occurred only once ...
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New York Philharmonic announces Shanghai partnership
The New York Philharmonic (NYP) has announced a four-year partnership with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. The agreement, signed on 14 November, includes annual performance residencies by the NYP in Shanghai, and involvement in a specialised training programme for orchestra musicians. According to a joint statement, the programme will begin ...
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Sheet music scores stolen from Brodsky Quartet
The Brodsky Quartet has suffered the theft of 40 string quartet scores while on a tour of the Netherlands. Concert clothes and a laptop computer were also stolen from the back of the group’s car, following a performance in Haarlem on 14 November. The quartet has offered a €500 reward ...
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McDuffie Center for Strings receives $1.5m grant
The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University will move to a new site next autumn after receiving a $1.5m grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, reports The Telegraph. The donation will fund the renovation of a 10,000 square-foot, 1860s mansion in Macon, Georgia, which will house the ...
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London violin dealers J.&A. Beare lose three directors
Three of the five directors of London violin dealers J.&A. Beare have stepped down from their directorship roles. Charles Beare has retired as a director, but will continue to act as an expert consultant on matters relating to the authenticity of instruments, according to a statement on the company's website. ...
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Former violin dealer Dietmar Machold gets six years in prison
Dietmar Machold was sentenced today in Vienna to six years in prison, reports ORF. The former violin dealer, 63, was convicted of embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy after a trial that began in September and reconvened this past week. The sentence could still be appealed, however. Machold could have received ...
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Sydney player's stolen violin found after theft on Vienna Underground
Emma West, a violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, has been reunited with the violin that was stolen from her in Vienna, reports the Wiener Zeitung. The violinist was travelling on an underground train in the city on 15 September 2012 when her instrument, worth an estimated €44,000, was ...
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ArticleAmerican composer Elliott Carter dies
US composer Elliott Carter has died at the age of 103. Known for his difficult, uncompromising works, he penned five string quartets during a career that spanned nine decades. The second and third quartets won Carter the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1960 and 1973. Born ...
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Detroit violist and pedagogue Ara Zerounian dies aged 86
The violist and pedagogue Ara Zerounian, who taught for many years in Detroit public schools as well as privately, has died at the age of 86. After serving in the army during World War II, the Detroit-born Zerounian went to Northwestern University in Chicago for his undergraduate studies, and ...
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New documentary tells how Bronislaw Huberman founded Palestine Symphony Orchestra
A documentary film about violinist Bronislaw Huberman has been released in the US. Orchestra of Exiles explores how the Polish-born violinist brought persecuted Jewish musicians to Palestine and in 1936 formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The 85-minute film, directed by Josh Aronson, ...
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Brazil government launches national conservation programme to preserve pernambuco
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to protect the country's endangered national tree, the pau-brasil. The environment ministry has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group comprising government agencies, conservation bodies and research institutes. ...
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Double bassist Roy Benson receives Salomon Prize
Roy Benson, the recently retired co-principal double bass of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), has been awarded the Salomon Prize by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Association of British Orchestras. The Salomon Prize recognises the contribution of orchestral players to UK musical life and is named after violinist ...
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Dresden-born concertmaster and violin pedagogue Werner Scholz dies
The German violinist Werner Scholz has died at the age of 86. A concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Scholz was a leading pedagogue whose students won many prizes in international competitions and went on to become concertmasters and violin professors. Born in Dresden in ...
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Violinist Tami Lee Hughes is first fellow in new Baltimore Symphony fellowship
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has launched an orchestra fellows programme in partnership with Sphinx, the non-profit organisation that promotes diversity in the arts. The fellowship will offer a year of mentoring and performance opportunities to Black and Latino instrumentalists. The first fellow is violinist Tami Lee Hughes (left), originally ...
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Violinist Jack Liebeck's surgeon opens musicians' clinic
The doctor who treated UK violinist Jack Liebeck (left) for a ganglion cyst in his wrist last year has launched a new clinic in London specialising in musicians' upper-limb problems. Dr John White, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, will work with a team of hand and upper-limb therapists at BMI ...
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Brazil to reinforce pernambuco conservation
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to preserve the country's endangered national tree, the Pau brasil, source of bow makers' pernambuco wood. The Ministry of Environment has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group that ...
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Former Arditti Quartet violist Garth Knox to join RNCM faculty
Garth Knox has been appointed international tutor in viola at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK. He will start his new position in September 2013. Knox, who studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Frederick Riddle, is a former member of the ...
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Tafelmusik violinist Jeanne Lamon to step down as music director
Violinist Jeanne Lamon, music director of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir since 1981, is to step down from the role in 2014. Lamon will become music director emerita and will work on establishing the Tafelmusik International Baroque Academy to train young players in period performance. Lamon studied ...
