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Bow maker Benoît Rolland receives $500k MacArthur grant
The French bow maker Benoît Rolland has been named one of 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 no-strings-attached 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation. Rolland trained as a violinist before studying bow making in Mirecourt with Bernard Ouchard. After working as a bow maker in France ...
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Female viola maker Ulrike Dederer takes Cremona Triennale gold
The winners of the 2012 Cremona Triennale lutherie competition have been announced. For the first time in the contest’s 36-year history, the judges awarded a gold medal to a female maker: Ulrike Dederer, a German-born luthier now based in Zurich, Switzerland, took the first prize in the viola category. ...
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Four Stradivaris among Canada Council for the Arts' three-year loans
Eighteen Canadian string players have won the right to perform on rare instruments or bows for the next three years, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). The thirteen violinists and five cellists all participated in a competition-style selection process to receive instruments in the care of the ...
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Two string soloists and a quartet selected as BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3 has announced the players chosen for its New Generation Artists scheme this year. Violinist Elena Urioste, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, and the Apollon Musagète Quartet from Poland will receive opportunities to develop live and recorded performances for broadcast over the next two years. Urioste, a US-born, Mexican–Basque ...
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Auction house Tarisio acquires Cozio online instrument archive
The internet-based auction house Tarisio has announced that it has acquired Cozio, the online instrument archive. In a statement, Tarisio explained that the Cozio website will be substantially redesigned to include higher-quality images, greater consideration for owners' privacy, a shift towards authentic and representational instruments, and frequent content from ...
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Trial of violin dealer Dietmar Machold to continue in November
The trial in Vienna of violin dealer Dietmar Machold has been extended by two days. Machold was in court on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week, but the session did not end in a verdict. The judge adjourned proceedings and the trial is set to continue on 5 and 7 ...
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1694 Stradivari cello to go back on display after accident
One of the rarest Stradivari cellos in existence has been repaired after an accident last April. The decorated 1694 instrument suffered damage to its neck when it hit the edge of a table during a photographic session. On 25 September it will be returned to its display case in Madrid's ...
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Chinese violinist Ying Fu wins first prize at Rodolfo Lipizer competition
Chinese violinist Ying Fu, 28, won the €12,000 first prize at the Premio Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy. Fu, who studies with Cho-Liang Lin at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and previously studied there with the late Sergiu Luca, joined the first violin section ...
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Violin dealer Dietmar Machold goes on trial in Vienna
The German-born violin dealer Dietmar Machold went on trial in Vienna yesterday, facing charges of serious fraud, embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy. The trial is set to last until Friday, and if Machold is found guilty, he could face up to ten years in prison. According to a Reuters report, ...
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Stolen cello found outside San Francisco opera house
A cello that was stolen from San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Sunday has been returned to its student owner, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Bubenreuth cello, worth around $10,000, was left outside the city's opera house just before midnight on Tuesday. No arrests have so far been ...
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Couple caught on CCTV fleeing San Francisco Conservatory with cello
Police in San Francisco have released video footage of a man and woman they want to trace in connection with the theft of a cello from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, reports KTVU. The well-dressed couple, who investigators have dubbed 'Bonnie and Clyde', were seen entering the conservatoire, checking ...
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Students observe Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in fashion makeover project
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the New York-based Parsons The New School for Design have launched a pilot scheme to redesign concert attire for orchestral musicians. Sixteen Parsons students will work on the project this autumn, observing BSO players as they perform, and designing prototypes of concert clothing ...
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Violinists Wang Xiao and Aleksandra Kuls win Joseph Szigeti competition
The first prize at the Joseph Szigeti International Violin and Viola Competition in Budapest was shared by violinists Wang Xiao and Aleksandra Kuls. Wang, 25, from China, studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Lucie Robert. Kuls, 21, from Poland, is a student of Kaja Danczowska at the ...
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Veriko Tchumburidze and Noah Lee win Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians
Sixteen-year-old Veriko Tchumburidze from Georgia/Turkey won first prize in the violin division of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Montreux and Vevey, Switzerland. Noah Lee, 12, took first prize in the cello division. Tchumburidze and Lee each received €3,000.
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Armida Quartet takes top prize in Munich ARD Competition
The Armida Quartet won first prize in the string quartet division of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. The German ensemble received €24,000 and also won the audience prize. The Novus Quartet from South Korea took second prize. Third prize went to the Calidore Quartet from the US and ...
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Israeli cellist Amit Peled to play Casals's Gofriller cello
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled has been given use of Pablo Casals's c.1700 Matteo Gofriller. Peled played for Casals's widow, Marta Casals Istomin, over the summer, and has now received the Gofriller from her and the Casals Foundation. Casals acquired the Gofriller in 1913. Other cellists to have played ...
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Lumiere Quartet wins Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano
The Lumiere Quartet won first prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano, Switzerland, which this year was for chamber music ensembles. The quartet, whose members come from France, Australia and the Ukraine, received €12,000. Second prize was shared between the Catalyst Quartet, from the US, and ...
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Toronto International Film Festival hosts world premiere of A Late Quartet
A film about a fictional New York string quartet had its world premiere last night at the Toronto International Film Festival. A Late Quartet, directed by Yaron Zilberman, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir as members of an ensemble that is thrown into crisis ...
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Johannes Brahms Competition announces winners
The Aris Quartet, from Germany, and the German–Russian duo of cellist Daniel Wachsmuth and pianist Ludmilla Kogan shared first prize in the chamber music division of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. First prize in the violin category went to Petr Matejak, 24, from the Czech Republic. Seventeen-year-old ...
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YouTube cello star Steven Sharp Nelson to release album with Sony
The Piano Guys, a Utah group featuring cellist Steven Sharp Nelson and pianist Jon Schmidt, have signed to Sony Masterworks on the back of their YouTube success. Their YouTube channel has amassed more than 750,000 subscribers, and their music videos – which usually fuse pop songs and classical influences – ...
