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classicfm.com
Classic FM reports that a stolen 18th-century Gagliano violin valued at €250,000, stolen in March 2019 from Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, was recovered in a Berlin apartment during a police raid. The thief, Berthold S., sold the violin for about €200 and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in 2020; the instrument was made by Nicolò Gagliano in Naples in 1769.
paralympic.org
Ayano Shimizu reports on Manami Ito, a two-time Paralympian swimmer and mother of three, who re-learned to play the violin with a prosthetic arm for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games opening ceremony. The piece reflects on her performance a year after the ceremony and its impact.
oberlin.edu
Seohyun Kim, a 13-year-old violinist from Seoul, South Korea, won the 2022 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition at Oberlin Conservatory, with Sameer Agrawal and Calvin Alexander placing second and third. The prize included a $20,000 cash award and full-tuition Oberlin Conservatory scholarships; the winner also received a two-year loan of a rare Italian violin by Marco Antonio Cerin and a two-year MKI Artists engagement.
rolf-musicblog.net
Anastasia Kobekina and Daniel Bard, with the Kammerorchester Basel, performed in Zurich on August 17, 2022, featuring Haydn’s Symphony No. 44 in E minor and Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto No. 1, followed by Elgar’s Adagio from Cello Concerto in E minor and Kobekina’s encore and Bach’s Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 2.
la.innovando.news
The page discusses Irina Pak testing a biotechnologically modified violin with fungus-treated wood called Caspar Hauser II, developed by EMPA in St. Gallen to alter acoustic properties. It references the instrument originally built by Giuseppe Guarneri and mentions Antonio Stradivari, with ongoing experiments and future metaverse collaboration called Urbs Musica.