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levante-emv.com
Renaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri del Gesù Panette violin, made in 1737, previously owned by Isaac Stern for 50 years; the article covers its history and Capuçon’s upcoming performance at the Palau de la Música de València with the Orquestra de València under Alexander Liebreich.
theviolinchannel.com
The Cavani String Quartet, based in Cleveland, announced the appointment of cellist Si-Yan Darren Li to the ensemble. Li is a Juilliard and Peabody alum, prize winner at the Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and will replace Merry Peckham. Li previously played with the Euclid Quartet and holds an assistant professorship of cello at the University of Central Florida; the Cavani Quartet will join the chamber music faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music in September.
glenclarson.com
The article discusses Stephen Kolbinson, a Saskatchewan farmer who collected the Amati String Quartet and sold it to the University of Saskatchewan in 1959 for $20,000, a collection now valued around $3 million.
broadwayworld.com
Jeremy Tai, a cellist, won the 32nd Irving M. Klein International String Competition with a prize purse of $13,000. The finals were held at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Sunday, June 4, with Zhanbo Zheng (viola) taking second and Kyumin Park (violin) taking third; the competition featured nine finalists and 99 entrants from 13 countries.
theviolinchannel.com
Ioana Cristina Goicea of Romania was awarded the 1st prize at the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in Auckland, New Zealand. She will receive NZ$40,000 (US$31,000), a recording on the Atoll label, a performance tour in New Zealand and Australia, a custom-designed outfit, and a professional development programme.
tass.com
A 17th century violin was reportedly replaced with a fake; the instrument was kept at the daughter’s flat on Maly Kislovsky Street. Police are examining the case as a theft, with official documents of authenticity not presented and experts noting inconsistencies between the case date (17th century) and the violin itself (20th century).
benningviolins.com
The piece discusses five Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians who perform on instruments crafted by Eric Benning: cellist Jonathan Karoly, violist Mick Wetzel, and violinists Mitchell Newman, Stacey Wetzel, and Vijay Gupta. Karoly plays a Stradivarius-model cello by Benning, and Gupta plays a 2015 Bergonzi-model violin.
houstonpublicmedia.org
The article covers Florian Leonhard, a Stradivarius expert, and violinist Katie Thomas visiting Houston Public Media. It discusses Leonhard’s work with rare violins, notable instruments in his collection, including a 1735 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu and a 1724 Abergavenny ex Kavakos Stradivarius, and references the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival. The piece mentions Leonhard’s estimated value near $10 million for the Abergavenny and notes his authentication work and a related performance by Katie Thomas.
marinij.com
The Marin Independent Journal reports authorities are searching for a $40,000 violin left behind at a train station. The incident allegedly occurred at South Station in Boston, with the violin owner reportedly forgetting it and boarding a train; another woman is believed to have taken possession of the instrument and it has not been located.
cbsnews.com
The story reports that Amy Sims was reunited with her $40,000 violin by MBTA Transit Police at South Station after it was left there for over a week. The instrument, handmade in New York in 1855, was recovered with the help of a woman who had picked it up and returned it to authorities; Sims expressed gratitude toward the woman and the Transit Police.
apnews.com
AP News reports that a $40,000 violin, a 1855 George Gemunder, and a $6,000 bow were recovered by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police at South Station and are expected to be returned to owner Amy Sims. Sims, a freelance musician from Watertown, left the instrument at the station, and a surveillance image led to investigative developments; a person of interest is no longer being pursued.
rabtrust.org
Sam Brouwer is featured in relation to the Rowan Armour-Brown Memorial Trust Fund and a New Jersey Newark School of Violin Making RAB Special Award for attending the Oberlin Violin Makers Workshop in 2017. The page recounts his Oberlin workshop experience, including work on a late Del Gesu model, varnishing a Strad copy by Antoine Nedelec and Jeff Philips, and notes about prior RAB funding in 2014 for cello wood and a work placement with Helen Michetschläger.