All News articles – Page 276
-
Article
Violinist Levon Chilingirian to teach at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Levon Chilingirian has left the Royal College of Music (RCM) to join the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as professor of violin. The 64-year-old violinist studied at the RCM after moving to London at the age of 12. In 1971 he co-founded the Chilingirian Quartet, which has been quartet ...
-
Article
Violist Piero Farulli, founder of the Fiesole School of Music, dies aged 92
The violist Piero Farulli, who played in the Quartetto Italiano for 30 years, has died in Mugello at the age of 92. Born in Florence in 1920, he joined the Quartetto Italiano – then called the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano – in 1947, replacing Lionello Forzanti, who co-founded the group ...
-
Article
US cellist Matthew Allen wins Carlos Prieto competition
Matthew Allen has won first prize in the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition in Morelia, Mexico. Allen, 20, who studies with Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music, received $10,000. Second prize was shared between Georgi Anichenko, 27, from Belarus and Arnold Choi, also 27, from Canada. No third ...
-
Article
Violist Louise Lansdown named head of strings at Birmingham Conservatoire
Louise Lansdown has joined Birmingham Conservatoire as its new head of strings. She has been a full-time viola and chamber music tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester since 2001. She is also director of chamber music at Pro Corda, the international chamber music academy at Leiston ...
-
Article
Latvian Vineta Sareika replaces Natalia Prishepenko as Artemis Quartet first violinist
The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has announced a change of personnel ahead of its 2012–13 season. First violinist Natalia Prishepenko is leaving the group after 18 years to focus on other musical activities and her family. Her replacement is Vineta Sareika, a Latvian violinist who was a prize winner at the ...
-
Article
Russian cellist Alexey Stadler wins Tonali Grand Prix
Russian cellist Alexey Stadler, 21, won first prize at this year's Tonali Grand Prix in Hamburg, Germany. Stadler, who studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, received €10,000. The Tonali Grand Prix is an annual competition that alternates between violinists, cellists and ...
-
Article
Man who stole violins from Glinka Museum is detained after second robbery
Moscow police have arrested a convicted thief who once stole a Stradivari violin on suspicion of stealing £80,000 in cash and valuables from a city apartment. Jakob Subbota, 43, a Chechen native, was convicted in 1998 of stealing a Stradivari violin and a Stainer violin from the Glinka Museum ...
-
Article
Lost Persichetti violin sonata set for debut
A sonata for violin and piano by American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) is to have its world premiere this September. The 1941 work was discovered by University of Utah violin professor Hasse Borup in the archives of the New York Public Library (NYPL) in 2010. The handwritten score was ...
-
ArticleGerman customs seize violinist Yuzuko Horigome's Guarneri 'del Gesù'
A Japanese violinist whose 1741 Guarneri 'del Gesù' was seized by customs authorities in Germany has been told she must pay €380,000 (£300,000) to get it back, reports AFP. Yuzuko Horigome, who is based in Belgium, was flying home last week from Japan via Frankfurt ...
-
Article
LPO violinist's discrimination claim rejected by tribunal
A London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) violinist who was disciplined after signing a letter in protest against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing at the 2011 BBC Proms has had her claim of discrimination struck out by an employment tribunal. Sarah Streatfeild was one of four LPO musicians who put their ...
-
Article
Noé Inui wins Verbier Festival Academy's Prix Julius Baer
Violinist Noé Inui has won this year's Prix Julius Baer, worth CHF10,000 (£6,500), awarded by the Verbier Festival Academy. Inui, 27, was born in Brussels to a Greek mother and a Japanese father, and now lives in Dusseldorf. He studied in Brussels, Paris, Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf, and his teachers have ...
-
Article
Pietro Guarneri violin stolen in London burglary
Police in Brent, north-west London, are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a Guarneri violin that was stolen in a burglary on 17 August. The Pietro Guarneri of Venice violin was in a blue canvas fabric case, together with two bows, one of which has a Hills stamp on ...
-
Article
British bow maker and restorer Malcolm M. Taylor dies
British bow maker and restorer Malcolm Taylor, who was one of the Hills workshop's leading postwar makers, has died at the age of 78. Taylor joined W.E. Hill & Sons as an apprentice in 1949, and worked there until 1973. After leaving the firm he made bows under his own ...
-
Article
Colorado Symphony violinist sacked after after pleading guilty to sex offences
The Colorado Symphony has fired one of its violinists days after he pleaded guilty to child sex offences. David Waldman had been a member of the orchestra since 1994. He pleaded guilty last week to sex assault on a child and attempted sex assault on a child, and was given ...
-
Article
Cellist, teacher and music festival founder David Wells dies aged 85
US cellist David Wells has died at the age of 85. Best known for his performances of the Bach Cello Suites, he co-founded the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Vermont. Born in East Chicago, Indiana, Wells began playing the cello when he was nine, and studied at ...
-
Article
Dutch violin maker and varnish expert Koen Padding dies
Dutch violin maker Koen Padding, whose passion for classical varnish was known to many luthiers through the products he sold under the Magister brand name, died suddenly last week. He was in his mid-fifties. Padding trained at the Newark School of Violin Making in the UK and then spent ...
-
Article
Colorado Symphony violinist guilty of sex offences
A violinist in the Colorado Symphony Orchestra has admitted to improperly touching two of his daughter's friends during sleepovers at his home, reports the Denver Post. David Waldman was sentenced to ten years to life on an intensive supervision probation programme for sex offenders after pleading guilty to sexual ...
-
Article
Zurich-based Trio Oreade triumphs at Munich International String Trio Competition
The Zurich-based Trio Oreade won first prize in the International String Trio Competition in Munich. The ensemble of violinist Yukiko Ishibashi, violist Ursula Sarnthein and cellist Christine Hu received €3,000. Munich trio Triple Strings took third prize; no second prize was awarded.
-
Article
Call for 'Molitor' Stradivari violin to revisit Derry
An author from Northern Ireland wants a Stradivari found under a bed in Derry in 1988 to play a part in the city's UK City of Culture celebrations in 2013, reports the Derry Journal. Nuala McAllister Hart explored the story of the 1697 'Molitor' Stradivari while doing research for ...
-
ArticleViolin legend Ruggiero Ricci dies at 94
Violin virtuoso Ruggiero Ricci has died at the age of 94, of heart failure, according to his son Gian-Franco Ricci. He was a towering figure in the string world, a former child prodigy known for his technical brilliance and range of colour, which combined in definitive performances ...
