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Stradivari cello once owned by Bernard Greenhouse nets record sum at auction
A 1707 Stradivari cello that was owned by Bernard Greenhouse for half a century has been sold by sealed bid for a record price. According to the New York Times, the 'Countess of Stanlein' cello was bought by a Montreal arts patron for in excess of $6m. Christopher Reuning, the ...
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US debut for Menuhin Violin Competition
The Menuhin Competition, the two-yearly international contest for violinists under the age of 22, will be staged in the US for the first time in 2014. It will be hosted by the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. The number of American participants at ...
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ArticleViolist Matthew Lipman wins Minneapolis Young Artist Competition
Violist Matthew Lipman won the $7,500 first prize and the $1,000 grand prize at the WAMSO Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association's Young Artist Competition in Minneapolis, US. Lipman, 19, studies with Heidi Castleman at the Juilliard School of Music. Second prize went to cellist Hans Goldstein, 23. Violist ...
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Violin pedagogue Jaroslav Vanecek dies aged 91
Jaroslav Vanecek, the Czech-born violin and viola pedagogue, has died at the age of 91. His career teaching in the UK and Ireland spanned seven decades, from 1949 until 2001. Born in Bratislava in 1920, Vanecek studied at the National Conservatoire in Prague, where his violin tutors included ...
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Violinist Sarah Streatfeild launches legal claim against London Philharmonic Orchestra
Violinist Sarah Streatfeild, one of four string players suspended by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), is taking a claim for discrimination on the grounds of belief to an employment tribunal, reports the Guardian. Streatfeild, along with violinists Tom Eisner and Nancy Elan, and cellist Sue Sutherley, was suspended ...
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Carnegie Hall announces youth orchestra
Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute will launch a National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) in 2013. Around 120 instrumentalists will get the chance to work with principals from top US orchestras during a two-week residency at Purchase College, State University of New York. The orchestra will ...
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Double bassist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio dies at 55
Stefano Scodanibbio, the double bass player and composer, died on 8 January at the age of 55. A tireless champion both of new music and of the double bass as a solo instrument, he was well known for his collaborations with composer Terry Riley. Born in Macerata, Italy, in ...
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PayPal blamed for destruction of $2,500 violin
An online seller has claimed that the money-handling company PayPal ordered the destruction of a $2,500 French violin that she sold to a buyer in Canada. The seller, known as Erica, told the website regretsy.com that the buyer had disputed the violin's Maurice Bourguignon label, and said that because PayPal ...
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Hollywood violinist Israel Baker dies aged 92
Violinist Israel Baker, a leading soloist in Los Angeles in the 1960s, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92. Born in Chicago, Baker got his first concertmaster post with the Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic. A year later he was hired by Stokowski to join the All-American Youth Orchestra, and ...
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Musician seeks London Underground orchestra
A musician has set himself the challenge of forming a full symphony orchestra from strangers he meets on the London Underground. Shaun Buswell, who cannot read music, will then compose a work for the orchestra to perform at one of twelve top London venues on 12 December 2012. The 12.12.12 ...
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Stradivari loses out in blind-testing study of player preferences for old and new violins
The results of a double-blind test held at last September's International Violin Competition of Indianapolis reveal some notable insights into player preferences between new and old violins. The experiment, the details of which have been published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was devised and led ...
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Roger Tapping to join Juilliard Quartet succeeding Samuel Rhodes
Samuel Rhodes is to step down as violist of the Juilliard Quartet in July 2013. Rhodes has been with the group since 1969, when he replaced the original viola player, Raphael Hillyer. Roger Tapping, who was violist of the Takács Quartet for ten years from 1995, will replace Rhodes ...
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Violinist reunited with 1835 Vincenzo Jorio instrument
A young Boston violinist got lucky when the 1835 Italian violin she left on a bus was found and returned to her. MuChien Hsieh, a Taiwanese student at the New England Conservatory, had been travelling to Philadelphia on 20 December. When she arrived at about 11pm she forgot to ...
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Scientists study how Beethoven's deafness shaped his quartets
A new analysis of Beethoven's string quartets suggests that the composer's progressive deafness influenced the number of high notes he used in his music. Researchers from the universities of Amsterdam and Maastricht looked at the op.18 quartets (1798–1800), written around the time when Beethoven was first experiencing hearing loss, ...
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South Korean cellist wins André Navarra Competition
South Korean Taeguk Mun won first prize at the André Navarra International Cello Competition in Toulouse, France. The 17-year-old, who studies with Minhye Clara Kim at the Juilliard School, received €12,000. Second prize went to 25-year-old Bonian Tian from China. French cellist Bruno Philippe, 18, won third prize.
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Violin dealer Dietmar Machold is is extradited from Switzerland to Austria
Austrian authorities have finally been able to extradite violin dealer Dietmar Machold from Switzerland to face charges of serious fraud, misappropriation and fraudulent insolvency. Thomas Vecsey, a spokesperson for the Vienna public prosecutor's office, confirmed that Machold was transported to Austria on 10 December but stressed that investigations are still ...
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Violinist Midori wins World Economic Forum community award
Midori will be given the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 25 January 2012. The award recognises the violinist's 20 years of community engagement work. Previous recipients of the award, given to artists who have used their art and influence to contribute to international society, ...
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Tribute concerts planned for violinist Sándor Végh
Leading chamber musicians will gather in Cornwall and London in January 2012 to honour the founder of the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, violinist Sándor Végh (1912–97). Two memorial concerts will feature violinists Erich Höbarth and Daniel Phillips, violists Tim Boulton and Hariolf Schlichtig, and cellists Xenia Jankovic and ...
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Australian Chamber Orchestra plays concert for Prince Charles
The Australian Chamber Orchestra ended its European tour with a performance in front of Prince Charles at St James's Palace in London. The concert for 150 guests included music by Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Parry. Charles talked with members of the orchestra afterwards about music and surfing. The concert was viola ...
