All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 103

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    Violinist and cellist perform in Internet2 demo

    2012-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Marjorie Bagley and cellist Cheng-Hou Lee took part in a performance on Tuesday to demonstrate the musical potential of Internet2 videoconferencing technology. They played the Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia with Bagley in Philadelphia and Lee some 820 miles away in DeKalb, Illinois. The demonstration employed low-latency audio and videoconferencing ...

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    Cavaleri Quartet wins International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg

    2012-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Cavaleri Quartet won first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg for string quartets and piano trios. The UK-based ensemble received €20,000 plus the €10,000 Mendelssohn Prize. Second prize went to the Calidore Quartet from the US and Canada.

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    Practice Diary: The Miró Quartet - part one

    2012-10-03T00:00:00Z

    In the November issue, second violinist William Fedkenheuer explains how the four players prepare for a recording of Schubert's Quartettsatz. Here he goes into more detail regarding tempo and intonation

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    Practice Diary: The Miró Quartet plays Schubert's Quartettsatz

    2012-10-03T00:00:00Z

    In the November issue, the Miró Quartet's second violinist William Fedkenheuer explains how the four players prepare for a recording of Schubert’s Quartettsatz. This live recording was filmed at the studios of KLRU-TV in Austin, Texas.Click here to read the Practice DiarySubscribe to The Strad or download our ...

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    The life and times of a historic London studio – part two

    2012-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The private residence where some of the legendary players featured in the October issue of The Strad performed is under threat. Nicholas Lane revisits those glorious days – and nights – via first-hand accounts from the time

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    Violinist Mieko Kanno joins Royal Conservatoire of Scotland faculty

    2012-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow has appointed Mieko Kanno as its new head of strings. The Japanese-born violinist starts in her new post in January 2013. She is currently head of performance at Durham University and is also a musicologist specialising in contemporary music. Kanno studied in ...

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    Mission to save historic London studio

    2012-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Campaign to preserve Chelsea building where Casals, Tertis, Kochanski and Thibaud played

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    The Beatles and strings – part two

    2012-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, was released in October 1962. We marked its 50th anniversary with an investigation by Kate Mossman into how the Fab Four brought string music into their work

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    Restorer and bow maker Jean-Frédéric Schmitt dies at 75

    2012-10-09T00:00:00Z

    The restorer and bow maker Jean-Frédéric Schmitt has died at the age of 75. In his Lyon workshop he did restoration and sound adjustments for many leading musicians, and worked on nearly 300 valuable Italian instruments. Born in 1937 in a suburb of Grenoble, France, Schmitt studied at the ...

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    Violinist and veteran concertmaster Theo Olof dies aged 88

    2012-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Theo Olof, the former co-concertmaster of The Hague Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, has died at the age of 88. Born in Bonn in 1924, he fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933, and began studying with Oskar Back. In 1935 he made his debut with the ...

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    Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Michel Schwalbé dies at 92

    2012-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Michel Schwalbé, who led the Berlin Phllharmonic through most of the Karajan era, has died at the age of 92. Born in 1919, in Radom, Poland, Schwalbé studied violin from the age of eight with Moritz Frenkel in Warsaw. In 1933 he went to Paris to study with ...

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    Martin Beaver and Clive Greensmith to direct Colburn School chamber programme

    2012-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith are to join the faculty of the Colburn Conservatory of Music next autumn. They will be directors of the school's string chamber music programme. Beaver and Greensmith are both members of the Tokyo Quartet, which will disband at the end of the ...

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    Russian violinist improvises with Dave Brubeck

    2012-10-09T00:00:00Z

    A lovely clip from a Dave Brubeck recital at Moscow Conservatory in the 1980s, during which a young violinist in the audience gets up and plays along with him.

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    Scottish babies to get free Royal Scottish National Orchestra CD

    2012-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Every baby born in Scotland over the next twelve months will be given a free CD of music recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, reports heraldscotland.com. The CD will be distributed to 220 registrar offices across the country, and is expected to reach up to 60,000 families. ...

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    Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier and Dami Kim share first prize at Joseph Joachim competition in Hannover

    2012-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier, from Moldova, and Dami Kim, from South Korea, shared first prize at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany. Both players received the full first-prize award of €50,000. Third prize went to Tobias Feldmann from Germany, who also won the critics' prize and the audience prize.

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    Early music ensemble Pallade Musica wins Baroque contest

    2012-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Montreal-based early music ensemble Pallade Musica won the $3,000 grand prize in Early Music America's first Baroque Performance Competition in New York. The ensemble comprises Tanya LaPerrière, violin, Elinor Frey, cello, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, and Mylène Bélanger, harpsichord. New York-based ensemble The Sebastians won the $1,000 audience award.

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    Detroit Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Robert deMaine offered Los Angeles Philharmonic job

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist, Robert deMaine, has been offered the job of principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter's music director, Gustavo Dudamel, made the offer after deMaine completed a trial week with the orchestra. As of Tuesday 16 October, there had been no official ...

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    Seattle Symphony musicians approve 'strike authorisation'

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The musicians of the Seattle Symphony could become the next group of US orchestral players to face a work stoppage after voting on and approving a 'strike authorisation' yesterday. The Seattle Symphony and Opera Players' Organization (SSOPO) has been negotiating with both the Symphony and Opera managements since the ...

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    Nigel Kennedy's stolen Violectra violins turn up at auction house

    2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Three electric violins that were stolen from Nigel Kennedy's tour bus in Liverpool in 2005 are due to be returned to the violinist after turning up at an auction house in North Wales.The Violectra violins, two custom-finished in the claret and blue of Kennedy's beloved Aston Villa football club, and ...

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    Density research dents notion of special Cremonese violin wood

    2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

    New research into violin wood density suggests that it is unlikely that classical Cremonese makers had access to wood with significantly different material properties than that available to contemporaneous or modern makers. In a study published online in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Plos One, Terry Borman, Berend Stoel ...