All News articles – Page 79
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NewsWinners announced at 2023 ARD International Music Competition
This year’s contest saw winners in the piano trio, viola and double bass categories
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NewsSearching for the ideal bow: Archet x Bunkyo Gakki
In celebration of Archet’s 40th anniversary, a new documentary highlights the collaboration between violinist Fumiaki Miura and bow maker Kunitaka Ohse
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NewsViolinist Giles Broadbent has died
The violinist was a founding member of the quartet Stringfever, famous for its video with all four members playing Ravel’s Bolero on one cello
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NewsBelcea Quartet announces new second violinist
Korean-Australian violinist Suyeon Kang replaces Axel Schacher
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NewsMissing: violin bow stolen in Miami Airport
The item, worth $10,000, went missing on 6 July 2023
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NewsPacifica Quartet takes up residency at University of Chicago
The Grammy Award-winning ensemble returns to the university in its second appointment as the Don Michael Randel ensemble-in-residence
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NewsViolinist William Wei to perform on 1722 ‘Joachim, Elman’ Stradivari
The instrument has been in the collection of the Chimei Culture Foundation since 1991
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NewsApplications open for National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s refocused orchestral programmes
The organisation will offer new musical pathways to widen awareness, access and inclusion throughout the country
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NewsQuartet Draig named Young Ensemble for 2023 Cowbridge Music Festival
The emerging Welsh quartet will receive chamber coaching sessions and a performance opportunity on 21 September
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NewsRoyal Academy of Music names Hannah Roberts as its Jacqueline du Pré Professor of Cello
The British cellist is a long-standing teacher at the institution, with former students including Sheku Kanneh-Mason
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NewsViolinist Elizabeth Sellars to join Flinders Quartet in 2024
The Australian chamber group will be embarking on its 24th season next year
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NewsSeohyun Kim wins 2023 Tibor Varga Violin Competition
The 14-year-old, from South Korea, was the competition’s youngest candidate and received CHF20,000
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NewsDouble bassist and composer Gareth Wood has died
The former chairman of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and composer for brass bands was 73
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NewsLost in Leicestershire: 1890 Emile Mennesson violin
The violin was in a black wooden case and was stolen from a house in Loughborough in July 2022
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NewsCellist Mirjam Ingolfsson has died
The Icelandic-born performer and pedagogue had been living with cancer for 25 years
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NewsYoung musicians organise charity concert for Maui wildfires
Harmony for Healing aims to raise funds in aid of the catastrophic fire disasters in Maui, HI, in an online concert on 9 September 2023, 7pm EST.
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NewsCellist Juan Sebastián Delgado joins UMBC faculty
Delgado takes up the position of faculty fellow for diversity in the arts from autumn 2023
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NewsJukka-Pekka Saraste named chief conductor and artistic director of Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
The conductor takes up the roles in September 2023 for the next three years
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NewsNew fellowship programme gives tour opportunity to young period instrumentalists
Three violinists and a cellist from Theresia Orchestra will join period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico on a European tour in September 2023
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GalleryRNCM to showcase its collection to the public
The college’s collection includes a Strad, a pocket violin and a curious, unplayable contraption
