All violinist articles – Page 13
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz's violin sells for £156,000 at auction
The violin that Leila Josefowicz used as her main concert instrument for the last twelve years was sold at a London auction yesterday. The violin fetched £156,000 (including buyer's premium) at Ingles & Hayday. The instrument, dated around 1750, was catalogued as 'probably by Michele Angelo Bergonzi' ...
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FocusFrom the archive: Teachers to Avoid
In this opinion piece from The Strad August 1935 our writer offers cautionary – and controversial – advice on choosing a teacher
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FocusFrom the archive: Vibrato on the Violincello
In this article published in The Strad, May 1912, Emil Krall offers some instruction
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ArticleViolinist Noah Bendix-Balgley purchases 1732 Bergonzi once owned by Nigel Kennedy
American violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, leader of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, has purchased a 1732 violin by the Italian maker Carlo Bergonzi, a close associate of the workshops of Stradivari and Guarneri.The violinist spent over a year searching for a new instrument and tried out more than 50 violins ...
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ArticleInternational organisation set up to promote music education and cultural understanding
Violinist Tasmin Little is among the artists lending their support to a new organisation being launched this month to promote and music education and cultural dialogue across the Mediterranean and the Middle East.EMMA for Peace, or the Euro Mediterranean Music Academy, is supported by UNESCO and seeks to create a ...
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ArticleJohannesburg violinist claims gold at Artscape Youth Music Competition
A 15-year-old violinist from Johannesburg has taken the top laurels at the 2013 Artscape National Youth Music Competition for pianists and orchestral instrumentalists.Frances Whitehead from Dunkeld, Johannesburg, received ZAR25,000 and a gold medal as overall winner. She also won the string category prize and the award for the best performance ...
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ArticlePhiladelphia Orchestra recruits associate concertmaster
Shanghai-born violinist Ying Fu has joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate concertmaster. A first-prize winner at the 2011 Schmidbauer and 2012 Rodolfo Lipizer competitions, he has been a first violinist in the Cleveland Orchestra for the past two seasons.Ying Fu studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music before moving to ...
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Article23 Spanish orchestras perform simultaneous protest concert
More than a thousand professional orchestral musicians from across Spain took part in a simultaneous concert on 23 September, in protest against arts budget cuts and a sharp rise in VAT on concert tickets. Twenty-three out of the 26 orchestras that are members of AMPOS, the country's professional symphony orchestra ...
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ArticleTwo beloved pedagogues to be remembered in the US
Memorials for cellist János Starker and violinist Masuko Ushioda will take place over the next two weekends at the respective US institutions where they were longtime teachers. On Sunday 22 September the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, will honour János Starker at a free, public memorial. ...
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ArticleYura Lee wins solitary first prize at ARD Music Competition
The ARD Music Competition in Munich, Germany, finished yesterday with only one first prize being awarded across the four categories of violin, viola, piano trio and bassoon.The lone first prize of €10,000 went to South Korean Yura Lee in the viola division. Lee, a 28-year-old violinist and violist, studied at ...
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ArticleRussian violinist Elena Tarosyan wins Kloster Schöntal competition
Elena Tarosyan won first prize in the senior division of the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition in Germany. The 20-year-old Russian (pictured), who studies at the Moscow Conservatoire with Edward Grach, received 3,000 euros. Second prize went to Olga Sroubkova from the Czech Republic. Japanese violinist Reina ...
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ArticleNew York dealer to pay $325,000 to settle legal dispute with violinist
New York violin dealer Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt has agreed to pay $325,000 to a violinist who sued him for allegedly losing her instrument while it was on consignment. South Korean violinist Kyung-Ah Yang had been seeking $400,000 in damages to compensate for the loss of her 1837 J.F. Pressenda, as well ...
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ArticleJapanese violinist Sunao Goko wins new Swiss competition
Japanese violinist Sunao Goko was victorious in last night's final round of the inaugural Tibor Varga International Violin Competition Sion Valais in Switzerland. The 20-year-old Goko (pictured), who studies with Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatoire, received CHF15,000 (£10,400) for his first prize. He also won the ...
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ArticleStudy suggests that judgement of music competitions is led more by sight than sound
New research into how music competition performances are evaluated suggests that what judges see matters more than what they hear. Scientists at University College London set out to test the general consensus that sound is the most important element in judging a musical performance. The findings were published in the ...
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FocusDoes success in music competitions really matter?
Violin laureates share their stories with The Strad
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ArticleViolinist William Hagen awarded Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship
American violinist William Hagen has won the Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Hagen, 20, was awarded a scholarship for the 2014 Aspen festival, where he will also give a performance with orchestra. Hagen, who hails from Utah, is a student of Robert Lipsett ...
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FocusAlbert Spalding: ‘The Greatest American Violinist'
The life of the US musician, born 125 years ago this month, is celebrated in our August issue. Here's an interview with Spalding at the start of his career
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ArticleJoshua Bell to judge Miss America contest
Joshua Bell has been named as a judge for the 2014 Miss America competition. The 45-year-old violinist will be one of seven adjudicators for the pageant, taking place on 15 September in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Bell (pictured performing at the 2013 BBC Proms) will be joined by Lance ...
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ArticleAssistant concertmaster leaves Minnesota Orchestra
Another of the Minnesota Orchestra's locked-out musicians has quit the ensemble. Assistant concertmaster Stephanie Arado (pictured) has resigned to take up a teaching post at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Arado, who joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1991, wrote in an email to the orchestra's leadership: 'My ...
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ArticleViolinist, 17, wins Schleswig-Holstein competition
Munich-based violinist Louise Wehr has won the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s competition for young musicians, which this year was devoted to the violin. The 17-year-old received €5,000 as well as the €500 audience prize at the competition’s final on 3 August.Born in 1996, Wehr (pictured) performed Chausson’s Poème and Bach’s Partita ...