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Winners Announced at 2023 International Paulo Cello Competition
Luka Coetzee won the first prize of €20,000, as well as a cello bow made by Risto Vainio.
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‘Noah’s Violin’ has successful Venice launch
A quartet of musicians from the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory performed Vivaldi on top of the floating instrument
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UK government calls on music industry to help shape future of music education
The Department for Education is asking musicians, teachers, students and parents for their views in a ‘Call for Evidence’
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Askonas Holt signs German violinist Tobias Feldmann for general management
Musician holds a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and is artist-in-residence with the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie
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Prizes Awarded at inaugural Anna Kull International Cello Competition
Competition’s rules state that current students of jury members cannot participate
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Eleanor Corr wins ROSL Annual Music Competition Strings Section
The British violinist received £5,000 and a place at the Gold Medal Final at Queen Elizabeth Hall this summer
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Patient plays violin during brain surgery
Doctors operated on Dagmar Turner, 53, to remove a tumour without affecting her ability to play
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Dutch violinist and musicologist Jaap Schröder dies aged 94
Schröder was a key figure in the revival of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic string playing
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Obituary: Michael Grebanier, San Francisco Symphony principal cellist
A student of Leonard Rose, Grebanier won the Naumburg Competition in 1957
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Two chamber groups win the Chamber Music Prize of the Polytechnic Society
A trio and a string quartet share 10,000-euros in prize money
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Prizes awarded at David Popper Cello Competition
Australian Rachel Siu and South Korean Hayoung Lee share the senior category top prize
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Marmen Quartet joins Sulivan Sweetland management roster
London group’s 2019/20 season to include first Beethoven cycle and Japan tour
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US concertmaster Rubén González dies aged 79
The veteran Chicago Symphony violinist also had success as a conductor and composer
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Nancy Zhou wins Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition 2018
The US violinist triumphed in the all-female final to take home the $100,000 first prize
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Teenage girl jailed for acid in viola case attack
Scottish schoolgirl booby-trapped love rival’s instrument case with drain cleaner
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Former Chetham's School of Music violin teacher charged with rape and indecent assault
The charges against Wen Zhou Li, who also taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, date back to the 1990s