All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 110
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GalleryCamerata Bern instruments
A selection of new Baroque instruments made for the 50th anniversary of Swiss chamber group Camerata Bern
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ArticleTim Ingles and Paul Hayday leave Sotheby's to set up own auction firm
Sotheby's auctioneers Tim Ingles and Paul Hayday have left the London company to form their own specialist auction house and dealership. Ingles & Hayday will be based at 94–96 Wigmore Street, and will hold its first sale on 21 May 2013. Sotheby's will cease to hold instrument ...
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ArticleBlind Ear Music
In the January issue, violinist Kristin Lee and composer Adam Reifsteck discuss 'Blind Ear Music' where the pieces are composed 'in real time'. Here's more information, with a sample of how it sounds.
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Chaudière violin thief jailed for six months
A man from Hounslow, London, who admitted stealing a Frédéric Chaudière violin valued at £25,000 from a train, has been sentenced to six months in jail. The violin's owner, Catrin Win Morgan of the Brodowsky Quartet, had placed the instrument, which was in a black Gewa case, on an ...
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GalleryVSA Competition
Instruments line up to be judged at the Violin Society of America's making competition in Cleveland in November 2012
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Pedrazzini violin worth $35,000 discovered in trash
A man in San Antonio, Texas, who found a violin among some trash by the side of a road, later discovered that it was a 1922 Giuseppe Pedrazzini worth $35,000. The instrument was appraised by Peter Shaw of Houston dealers Amati Violin Shop for an episode of the PBS TV ...
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French violist Vincent Aucante replaces Olaf Hallmann in Gewandhaus Quartet
Vincent Aucante, the first solo viola of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, has replaced Olaf Hallmann as violist in the Gewandhaus Quartet. Aucante joined the Gewandhaus Orchestra in 2011 after serving as principal viola with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. His chamber music activities ...
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UK violinist Peter Mountain, former RLPO concertmaster, dies
British violinist and teacher Peter Mountain has died at the age of 89. During a long career he was concertmaster of several UK orchestras, performed as a soloist and chamber musician, and coached both students and young professionals. Born in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Mountain won a scholarship to the ...
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Violinist raises nearly $25,000 to manufacture new chin rest
A Colorado-based violinist is set to start manufacturing his own chin rest design after raising nearly $25,000 on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. While studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, Jordan Hayes won the school's New Venture Challenge in 2010 for making a multi-adjustable chin rest ...
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Cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky dies
Cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky has died at the age of 73. The founder of Canadian chamber ensemble I Musici de Montréal, he also performed as part of the Borodin Trio from 1977 to 1993. Born in 1939, Turovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatoire. He won first prize in ...
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Julia Fischer, Leonidas Kavakos, Sigiswald Kuijken to perform in Southbank Centre's 2013–14 season
Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly today launched the London venue’s 2013–14 season, sounding alarm about developments in England’s cultural landscape. Referring to the government’s proposed English Baccalaureate qualifications, which leave music off the core areas of school study, she said: ‘We should be concerned that classical music may not ...
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Tonewood collected by René Morel and Rembert Wurlitzer Inc to be auctioned
Tonewood from the collections of Rembert Wurlitzer Inc and the late René Morel will be up for sale this March. Online specialist Tarisio is to auction maple, spruce, ebony, willow and bridges collected by Morel during his long career as a restorer and maker, as well as pernambuco that was ...
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Ten rare Italian violins go on show in New York
Ten rare Italian instruments from the collection of Sau-Wing Lam went on show yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The installation features one viola and nine violins, among them the 'Scotland University' and 'Bavarian' violins by Stradivari, and the 'Baltic' violin by Guarneri 'del Gesù'. The ...
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London concert debut for ‘Underground Orchestra'
Seventy musicians will come together at a London venue on 26 January to mark the climax of ‘The Underground Orchestra Challenge’. The charity project was conceived a year ago by musician Shaun Buswell, who attempted to assemble ‘a full symphony orchestra’ from strangers he met on the London Underground during ...
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ArticleJohannes Moser: Magnetar
In the January issue, soloists discuss the differences in performing on electric instruments. Here, cellist Johannes Moser talks about Enrico Chapela's concerto Magnetar, premiered in 2011
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St Paul Chamber Orchestra cancels more 2013 concerts
The management of the St Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) has cancelled its scheduled concerts until 23 March, following the breakdown of contract negotiations. Talks between management and the locked-out SPCO musicians were conducted at the beginning of January under a media blackout, but the musicians' committee ended the negotiations ...
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New York-based Colorado Quartet to disband after three-decade career
The Colorado Quartet has announced it will disband in May after more than 30 years of performance. The New York-based ensemble will give its final concert in the city at Symphony Space on 28 February, with performances in Virginia and South Carolina to follow in the coming months. The ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Rick Stotijn receives Dutch Music Prize
Double bassist Rick Stotijn has been announced as the recipient of the 2013 Dutch Music Prize. The award is the highest honour for a classical musician in the Netherlands. Previous recipients include violinists Janine Jansen and Liza Ferschtman, and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. Born in 1982, Stotijn ...
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GalleryThe Piatigorsky Cello Festival
Images from the first Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles in March 2012, plus a peek inside the Heifetz Studio at the Colburn School
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Article1741 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin is sold to anonymous buyer
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has been granted exclusive lifetime use of the 1741 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri 'del Gesù' following its recent purchase by an anonymous buyer. The violin was sold by London dealers J.&.A. Beare for an undisclosed sum, although Beares confirmed that the price exceeded the ...
