All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 111
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Cellist Truls Mørk wins Sibelius Prize in Oslo
Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk was presented with the 2010 Sibelius Prize at his first concert in his home country for two years. The NOK100,000 (£11,000) award from the Sibelius Foundation recognises musicians who have made a major contribution to promoting links between Finnish and Norwegian musical life. Previous winners include ...
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UK violinist Andrew Haveron to join Sydney Symphony as concertmaster
Andrew Haveron has been appointed co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony. Currently joint concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Haveron will take up his new position this May, joining Dene Olding as co-leader. The London-born Haveron was concertmaster at the BBC Symphony Orchestra before taking the leader's chair at ...
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ArticleFélix Lajkó: 'A madárnak'
Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó, the cover star of The Strad's January 2013 issue, performs a self-composed tune inspired by birdsong.
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Violinist and University of North Carolina teacher Richard Luby dies
US violin professor Richard Luby has died at the age of 68. For more than three decades he taught at the University of North Carolina (UNC), serving as assistant chairman of the music department, associate chair for performance, and co-artistic director of the pre-professional orchestra MYCO, based at the university’s ...
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Violin meets subatomic particles in Cloud Chamber duet
The worlds of string playing and particle physics are set to come together in an unusual performance at Plymouth University in the UK on 11 February. Alexis Kirke's new work, Cloud Chamber, combines a semi-improvisational score for solo violin with the synthesized sounds of subatomic particles. The performance will ...
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ArticleBiber's 'Rosenkranz' Sonata no.4 €“ Ciacona
In the February issue, Elizabeth Wallfisch gives a detailed guide to this intricate Baroque gem. Here's Susanne Lautenbacher tackling the violin part.
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma wins $100,000 award
Cellist receives contemporary music prize from Vilcek Foundation
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ArticleString soloists in Bach marathon
Viktoria Mullova and Alban Gerhardt star in nine-hour Royal Albert Hall event
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ArticleCampaigners welcome GCSE rethink
New performance measure of GCSEs in England will include creative subjects
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GalleryThe enigmatic Persoit
A newly discovered legal document that sheds new light on the great French bow maker, plus two of the bows he made for Vuillaume
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ArticleTop cellist Alban Gerhardt calls airport security staff ‘brutal and careless' after bow is damaged
Alban Gerhardt slams behaviour of officials at Dulles International Airport
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UK violinist Thomas Gould does a Joshua Bell busk
British violinist Thomas Gould went busking at Westminster Tube station on Wednesday, in a recreation of the famous Joshua Bell subway experiment that was arranged by the Washington Post in 2007. Gould, the concertmaster of the Aurora Orchestra and the associate concertmaster of the Britten Sinfonia, recreated the stunt for ...
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ArticleHeifetz saves the day
Watch Heifetz playing himself in the classic 1939 film They Shall Have Music, performing Saint-Saëns's Introduction and rondo capriccioso and saving a music school from financial ruin
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BlogsWhat happened to Ginette Neveu's Stradivari?
Delve into The Strad Archive to find out what happened after the violinist's untimely death in a 1949 plane crash
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Viola player Kim Kashkashian wins Grammy award for recording of Kurtág and Ligeti
Kim Kashkashian won the award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo at the 2013 Grammy awards. The viola player received the honour on 10 February for her recording Kurtág & Ligeti: Music for Viola, which pairs György Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages with György Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Viola. The ...
