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NewsTrio Basilea wins Swiss Chamber Music Competition
The piano trio received CHF5,000 at the national competition for up-and-coming string ensembles
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BlogsDesmond Cecil: My time with violinist Max Rostal
Excerpt from Desmond Cecil’s newly published memoir: ‘The Wandering Civil Servant of Stradivarius’
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NewsViolinist Sofiia Suldina wins 2015 Concours Nicati in Switzerland
The competition is dedicated to contemporary music and open to instrumentalists, singers and ensembles
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NewsDmitry Smirnov wins 2015 Tibor Varga Violin Competition Sion Valais
The 21-year-old Russian also received the audience prize at the Swiss event
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NewsSwitzerland eases import regulations for musical instruments containing ivory – will the US follow suit?
The League of American Orchestras is attempting to renegotiate transportation rules as part of a larger CITES shake-up
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ArticleItalian cellist Miriam Prandi wins Rahn Musikpreis in Switzerland
No first prizes are awarded in the violin, viola and double bass categories
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FocusSzigeti as teacher: Frances Kramer
In the October 2013 issue, violinist Arnold Steinhardt recalls how he spent the summer of 1962 studying with Joseph Szigeti at his home in Switzerland. Just three years after Steinhardt's year with the great musician (pictured), violinist Frances Kramer wrote this account, published in the November 1965 edition, ...
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FocusSzigeti as teacher: Andrew Watkinson
Andrew Watkinson, violinist and teacher at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, remembers how he met and studied with Joseph Szigeti in 1970:'I was 16 years old at the time, and I’d secured a university place, but I was looking for something to do as a gap ...