Monthly archive
6 headlines
Source-linked reporting
lsmmeinfo.com
The Lorenzo Carcassi violin, made in Florence in 1740 and valued at more than £150,000 (about $201,550), was stolen from the Marquess Tavern in North London on February 18, 2025. Ahmed Sami Madour, 46, has been charged with two counts of theft and appeared in court, with a trial set for May 10, 2027. The violin was loaned to violinist David Lopez Ibanez of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
theviolinchannel.com
Keila Wakao won the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerto competition. She will perform the second movement of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the BSO at Symphony Hall in Boston on October 28, 2023, as part of her prize of $1,000. Wakao studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and has prior wins including the 2021 Menuhin International Violin Competition First Prize and Junior Composer Award, as well as the 2021 Stulberg International String Competition.
theviolinchannel.com
Simon Zhu of Germany won the first prize and €30,000; Jingzhi Zhang won second prize and €20,000; Qingzhu Weng won third prize and €10,000. The competition took place in Genoa, Italy, with a jury led by Salvatore Accardo and a relaunch supported by Genoa’s mayor Marco Bucci.
theviolinchannel.com
Risa Hokamura, Giuseppe Gibboni, and Rino Yoshimoto, dubbed VC Young Artists, will each receive a Stradivarius loan from the Nippon Music Foundation for a minimum of two years. The instruments are the Joachim (1715), Jupiter (1722), and Muntz (1736).
theviolinchannel.com
The violin, made in 1944 by Lt. Clair Cline, an American prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I, is to be shown at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans' Liberation Pavilion. Cline carved the instrument from bed slats and table legs with catgut strings, and it was first played publicly on Christmas Eve, 1944.
concertisticlassica.com
Gianandrea Noseda unveils his collection of seven violins, a viola, and two cellos, valued at about five million dollars, loaning instruments from his private collection to the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC.