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tokostoronline.blogspot.com
Dietmar Machold, a Stradivarius dealer, was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzlement after building a Bremen-based business with branches in Zurich, Vienna, New York and Chicago. The case involved claims from creditors and clients who said they were bilked while the business collapsed in 2010.
vanderaa.net
Michel van der Aa’s Up-Close for cello, string ensemble and film is set to be performed in two composer portrait concerts in the Netherlands. The works on the program include Imprint, Memo, and Oog. The Amsterdam performance is on 8 November at Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, with a second show at the ’s-Hertogenbosch November Music Festival three days later, featuring Kaori Yamagami as solo cellist alongside Jacobien Rozemond (violin) and Örs Köszeghy (cello).
newswire.com
Benning Violins in Los Angeles released the West Coast's largest online catalog of fine violins, violas, cellos and bows. The collection includes over 50 master-crafted violins and many bows by European masters, with instruments and two cellos crafted by Hans and Nancy Benning.
blogs.charleston.edu
The College of Charleston School of the Arts announces violin professor Lee-Chin Siow’s return to performance after a car crash injured her arm. Siow, co-founder of Charleston Music Fest, will headline the opening concert of CMF’s seventh season, Curtis Night – Lee-Chin & Friends, with alumni from the Curtis Institute of Music performing works by Beethoven, Strauss, Schoenfield, and Vaughan Williams.
latimes.com
The Los Angeles Times article reports that Carrie Dennis, the Los Angeles Philharmonic principal violist, coached actress Catherine Keener for the role in A Late Quartet. Dennis spent two weeks with Keener in late 2010, helping with hold and mannerisms, as well as instrument handling and other small details, while the Brentano String Quartet performed the soundtrack.
sandiegouniontribune.com
Dieter Machold, a prominent dealer in Stradivarius violins and other rare stringed instruments, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Vienna court after being found guilty of fraud and embezzlement in a multi-million dollar scheme. The court noted that he used instruments he was supposed to sell for clients to secure bank credits to finance his business and private life, and Machold declared bankruptcy two years prior with debts reported between 80 million and 150 million euros (about $102-191 million).
independent.co.uk
The Independent reports that Dietmar Machold, a German-born Austrian violin dealer nicknamed 'Mr Stradivarius,' was jailed for six years after being convicted of large-scale fraud and embezzlement. He allegedly swindled creditors out of about €100 million by using real and fake Stradivarius violins as collateral and falsifying authenticity certificates; his empire collapsed in 2010 amid insolvency of his international network.
eu.rrstar.com
The article discusses violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her interest in heavy metal. It mentions a Guarneri violin loaned to Pine and her performance with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, as well as Pine's involvement with a Chicago doom/thrash metal band called Earthen Grave.
consumerist.com
The article discusses solo cellist Lynn Harrell purchasing a second seat for his cello during travel. Delta Air Lines bans Harrell from its frequent-flyer program as a consequence of this action.
the-independent.com
A rare 18th-century Nicola Gagliano violin dating to 1747, worth £140,000, was stolen from a New Cross flat. The owner, 31, returned home to find the burglary and that the violin in a brown rectangular case was taken.
standard.co.uk
The article reports that a trainee teacher, John Powles, 24, admitted burglary of a rare 18th-century Guarnerius violin worth £500,000 and was jailed for eight months at Harrow Crown Court; his co-defendant Dean Barton, 24, received nine months with a further three months for handling stolen goods. The burglary at David Roth's Cricklewood home also involved theft of candlesticks, jewellery and collectable coins, and the violin was later recovered and returned to Mr Roth.