All News articles – Page 31
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NewsCellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker signs with Dorn Music
The cellist joins the roster for worldwide general management
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NewsFlorian Leonhard awarded MBE
The London-based violin maker and dealer received the honour for services to fine historical and modern string instruments
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NewsSimon Rattle receives €250k Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
The conductor receives the award for his lifelong dedication to music
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NewsNew full-time violinist joins Australian Chamber Orchestra
Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba joins the ensemble having led the Flinders Quartet for five years
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NewsZlatomir Fung loaned 1696 ‘Lord Aylesford’ Stradivari cello
The Nippon Music Foundation has facilitated the loan of the cello, which was previously played by Gregor Piatigorsky and János Starker
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NewsFormer Ysaÿe Quartet cellist has died
Michel Poulet was a member of the Ysaÿe Quartet from 1986 to 1995
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NewsThe Twiolins appoints new violinist
Marta Danilkovich replaces Christoph Dingler and joins his sister Marie-Luise in the established violin duo
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NewsSymphonic Stradivarius: a 335-year-old Strad violin gives voice to the music of today
Davide Alogna performs twelve contemporary compositions on the 1690 ‘Stephens’ Stradivari violin in a new album
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NewsNew Holocaust documentary features music performed on a violin that survived Auschwitz
The documentary film The Lost Music of Auschwitz commemorates 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp
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News13-year-old violinist wins $20k first prize at Cooper International Competition
Swiss violinist Edna Unseld scooped an impressive prize package, which also includes a two-year loan of an Italian violin, career mentorship and a future performance engagement
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NewsThe string winners of the 2025 International Classical Music Awards
Violinist Gidon Kremer is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award
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NewsRadio France appoints principal viola
A member of the orchestra since 2005, Aurelia Souvignet-Kowalski assumes the new role
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NewsLA Phil cancels concerts, as musicians lose homes in wildfires
The ongoing fires continue to affect the orchestra’s musicians and staff, while a fundraiser has been set up to help an LA Phil violinist whose home was lost in the Eaton Fire
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NewsBritish dendrochronologist John Topham has died
The Mittenwald-trained luthier was sought by museums around the world, auctioneers and dealerships for his dendrochronological examinations
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NewsPremio Paganini: 70 years of violin excellence
Find out everything you need to know and apply for the 58th edition of the Premio Paganini, which will take place from 14 to 26 October 2025 in Genoa
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NewsHandwritten manuscript of a Beethoven string quartet movement returns to Bonn, 200 years after composition
Beethoven-Haus Bonn has acquired the autograph manuscript of the fourth movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet op.130 ’Alla Danza tedesca’, which was confiscated by Nazis from the Petschek family during the Second World War
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News£100k up for grabs in Continuo Foundation’s latest grants for early music projects
Grants will support projects taking place in the UK from May to October 2025 for period-instrument ensembles, with categories for established and emerging groups
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NewsYCAT invites applications for 2025 cohort
Successful artists will receive performance opportunities, bespoke management and career support for three to five years
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NewsTime for Three’s bassist signs with Opus 3 Artists
Ranaan Meyer is the sole double bassist on Opus 3 Artists’ roster
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NewsBritish studio concertmaster Perry Montague-Mason has died
The violinist, whose recording career was bookended with the soundtracks of two Gladiator films 25 years apart, was 68
