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Sunday, 11 December 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Keyboard phenom Lang Lang on short list of classical stars. [photo Lang Lang, left w/editor, RACampbell]
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Saturday, 10 December 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
With a musical career spanning over six decades,
violinist Andor Toth
has earned international celebrity as a
soloist, concert artist,
conductor and music educator.
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Tuesday, 6 December 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Alina Pogostkin, a 22-year-old German
violinist, won the ninth Jean Sibelius Violin
Competition in Helsinki and a prize of 20,000
euros on December 2.
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Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Pianist Melvyn Tan, a native of Singapore,
has canceled a planned concert there amid
accusations that he received special treatment
after dodging the draft, Malaysia's Bernama
news agency reports.
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Sunday, 4 December 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
For years now, through her concerto and
chamber music performances, it has been evident
that the young Georgian violinist,
Elisabeth Batiashvili
is a very special talent.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
New album, master classes, concert performances in Europe and America — Earl Wild is turning 90, but that's not stopping him.
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Sunday, 27 November 2005
90? Who's 90? Just Give Him a Piano
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
On Tuesday evening, three days after his 90th birthday,
EARL WILD is to give a recital at Carnegie Hall. In addition to works by
Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin, he will play music works by the Italian Baroque composer
Alessandro Marcello and by Mr. Wild's beloved Rachmaninoff.
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Friday, 11 November 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
When flutist Valerie Coleman formed Imani Winds in 1997, she was hoping to test the boundaries of classical music.
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Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
For violinist, music is the most important thing NEW YORK -- They say Gidon Kremer is possessed when he performs. The violinist laughs at this.
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Thursday, 10 November 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Peter Schickele, a Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, author and humorist known for his quirky wit and penchant for skewering classical music with Weird Al-style parodies of Bach, Mozart and others -- giving the credit to (or pinning the blame, depending on how you look at it) on his imaginary, invented 17th-century composer alter ego, one P.D.Q. Bach.
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Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Dutch Violinist Frederieke Saeijs Wins 2005 Long-Thibaud Competition
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Sunday, 30 October 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Taking a page from rock bands, Hilary Hahn is hitting the road. The internationally acclaimed violinist, and her longtime recital partner, pianist Natalie Zhu, have rented a bus for Hahn's first coast-to-coast road tour.
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Wednesday, 26 October 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has won the
2006 Sonning Music Prize, Denmark's top music
award. He will receive 500,000 kroner; about
euro 67,000 or $80,000; in prize money during a
concert in Copenhagen on Dec. 10, 2006.
...LINK to complete news story



Monday, 24 October 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz won first
prize in this year’s International Chopin
Piano Competition in Warsaw. The prizes were
announced on October 21, after the competitions
final round. First prize carries an award of
20,000 euros.
...LINK to complete news story



Thursday, 6 October 2005

Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Paul Musikonsky appeared with the Manhattan
Symphony and in Carnegie Hall before he was 10
and several times toured throughout Europe,
U.S., Canada and the Mid-East.
Paul MUSIKONSKY is alive and well
and living in Paul LENNARD.
[Paul Musikonsky is the name given Paul Lennard, (b.1920) an American violin virtuoso.]
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