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    Free violin lessons enrich adult learners’ lives in rural Scotland

    5 December 2024

    The initiative is run by PhD student and violist Arianna Ranieri who will present her findings on the impact of music making on the local community

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    Scottish violinist Daphne Godson has died aged 90

    2 September 2022

    The musician and teacher performed in several ensembles and taught at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music 

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    Scottish violin maker Brian Rattray dies aged 83

    18 July 2022

    The luthier ran a successful workshop in Colinton, on the outskirts of Edinburgh

  • Deliverance
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    Deliverance

    18 March 2017

    The Strad Issue: March 2017Description: Sounds of the north as players from Shetland and Scandinavia come togetherMusicians: The Nordic Fiddlers BlocCatalogue number: WWW.THENORDICFIDDLERSBLOC.COM NFBCD001 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc has one of the finest ensemble sounds in Scandinavian folk music – a trio of string voices closely related ...

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    Adrian Shepherd (1939–2013)

    6 August 2013

    Cellist and ensemble director Adrian Shepherd has died at the age of 74. For 20 years he served as principal cellist in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), but was best known as the founder of the chamber ensemble Cantilena, which mainly comprised players from the orchestra.Born in 1939 in ...