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NewsA video gamer is beating Elden Ring with a violin
As if Elden Ring wasn’t hard enough, Twitch streamer TiavioliGaming is playing through one of the most challenging games of recent times armed with an electric violin and an intricate gaming set-up
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NewsViolinist Eugene Drucker announced as Berkshire Bach Society artistic director
The founding member of the Emerson String Quartet takes on the role following the quartet’s 2023 dissolution
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn awarded $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
The violinist receives the award for outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in classical music
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NewsAttacca Quartet signs with MKI Artists
The US ensemble joins the agency for North American representation
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NewsViolinist and conductor Philippe Arrii-Blachette has died
The contemporary music specialist was director of the Sillages Ensemble, various conservatoires and additionally worked in television and radio
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NewsFinnish violinist Tuomo Haapanen dies, aged 99
Haapanen was a former professor and principal at the Sibelius Academy, as well as chairman of the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition from 1981 to 2001
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NewsYCAT applications are now open for 2024
Successful artists will receive performance opportunities, bespoke management and career support during YCAT’s 40th anniversary year
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NewsThe Continuo Foundation invites applications for seventh round of grants
£100,000 in grants will be awarded for early music tours and artistic projects in the UK between April and October 2024
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NewsViolin maker Tschu Ho Lee has died
Lee was the first teacher and former director of the Chicago School of Violin Making
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NewsNew cello professorship role at Portland State University College of the Arts
Cellist of the Florestan Trio Hamilton Cheifetz takes up the role of Florestan professor of cello
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NewsMinnesota violinist Richard ‘Dick’ Adams has died
A former assistant concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra for over 30 years, Richard ‘Dick’ Adams has passed away aged 94
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NewsViolinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky joins the Purcell School as a patron
Sitkovetsky accepts his new honour with ’great joy and enthusiasm’
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NewsCanadian cellist Marcel Saint-Cyr has died
The founding cellist of the Orford Quartet, as well as a viola da gambist, baryton player and educator was 85 years old
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NewsCellists needed to help raise funds for hunger charity
The Simple Gifts Cello Project invites cellists of all abilities to submit a video recording and a donation to the charity Rise Against Hunger
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NewsNew solo cello for Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Anton Spronk will take up the post of solo cellist from March 2024
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NewsViolinist Jason Yu joins the Cleveland Orchestra
Yu departs the New York Philharmonic to take up the role of assistant principal second violin in Cleveland, along with fellow new appointment Luke Sieve on bass trombone
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NewsMissing cello in San Francisco
The instrument was stolen on Sunday 17 December 2023 in the suburb of Japantown
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis January 2024: A case for small-group teaching
Julian Lloyd Webber’s recent comments about one-to-one tuition in conservatoires has ignited a debate: should small-group teaching be more widely offered as an alternative?
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NewsTrio Pantoum announces new member
Pianist Kojiro Okada joins violinist Hugo Meder and cellist Bogeun Park
