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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: June 2023
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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NewsEdinburgh International Festival announces paid opportunity for pre-professional string players
Five string players will be chosen by festival director Nicola Benedetti to take part in a performance of Mendelssohn Octet this summer
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NewsNational Orchestra of Spain appoints 23-year-old concertmaster
Violinist Valerie Steenken becomes the youngest leader in the orchestra’s history
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NewsMarkneukirchen Competition announces cello winners
Czech cellist Vilem Vlcek took first prize of €7,000 as well a future concerto engagement
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NewsBelarusian cellist Aleksandr Khramouchin dies aged 43
The musician was principal cellist of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra for almost two decades and performed in the Aviv Quartet
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NewsJoseph Conyers announced as the Philadelphia Orchestra’s new principal double bass
The bassist is the orchestra’s first black principal musician
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NewsLeopold Mozart’s violin playing treatise translated into Chinese
The translation of the seminal 1756 text on performance practice has taken four years
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NewsA cultural destination: the Lake George Music Festival
This year’s festival will take place from 6 to 17 August 2023 among the beauty of the Adirondacks in upstate New York
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NewsMaggini Quartet cellist Michal Kaznowski has died
The veteran musician, pedagogue and conductor was 69 years old
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NewsMarkneukirchen Competition announces double bass winners
Portuguese double bassist José Trigo took first prize of €7,000 plus a future concert engagement
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NewsUkrainian street violinist dies in the battle for Bakhmut
Bogdan Mikhalaki died in hospital on 6 May after fighting at the front
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NewsThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center reveals new Bowers Program artists
Five individual string players and one string quartet will begin a three-year residency next season
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NewsViolinist Lisa Batiashvili announced as Berlin Philharmonic’s artist-in-residence
The violinist will perform with the orchestra during its 23/24 season
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NewsNYOS launches new fund to raise £20,000
The Scottish youth orchestra aims to raise £20,000 to continue the legacy of its former director
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NewsCellists needed to help Celtic artist plant 10,000 trees via music video pledge campaign
The pledges will go towards global reforestation projects, with cellists submitting video performances of the new work Full Circle – Cellos for Trees
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NewsViolinist Volker Worlitzsch has died aged 78
Concertmaster of the NDR Radio Philharmonic for 39 years, he was also a chamber musician and tutor
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NewsString quartet candidates announced for 77th Concours de Genève
The 2023 edition celebrates the disciplines of string quartet and flute, with various rounds to be held from September to November this year
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NewsPrizes awarded at the 8th Henri Marteau International Violin Competition
Dutch violinist Hawijch Elders took first prize of €10,000, plus recording and performance opportunities
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NewsCecilia Zilliacus appointed professor of violin at Sibelius Academy
The Swedish violinist will begin the role on 1 August 2023
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NewsNew concertmaster for Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Violinist Jinwoo Lee leaves his role as concertmaster of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen in Germany to take up the new post
