CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS

The 6 ensembles progressing to the Grand-Final stage of the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition have today been announced at the Australian National Academy of...

It has been announced today that conductor Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are set to host a tribute concert at London’s Royal...

25 year old South Korean violinist Ji Won Song has been awarded 1st prize at the 2017 IsangYun International Violin Competition, in Tongyeong, South...

17 year old German VC Young Artist Lara Boschkor has been awarded 1st prize at the 2017 Tonali Violin Competition - in Hamburg, Germany. A...

Czech violin virtuoso Josef Suk Jr was born on this day in 1929 – 89 years ago. Passing away in 2011, Maestro Suk is remembered...

VC member Sofia Yatsyuk from Ukraine was keen to know what conservatory audition panelists look for in undergraduate vs graduate students for admissions. We threw Sofia's...

Today is Dutch violin virtuoso Rudolf Koelman’s 58th birthday. A student of Jan Bor, Herman Krebbers and Jascha Heifetz, Rudolf is a former Concertmaster of...

Violinists Zach de Pue and Nick Kendall, from the string trio Time for Three have today released a fly-on-the-wall YouTube video – after being...

Today is British violinist Chloe Hanslip’s 30th birthday. A protege of Natasha Boyarskaya and Zakhar Bron, Chloë is a former prize winner at the Novosibirsk...

The Violin Channel recently caught up with Berlin Philharmonic 1st Concertmaster, VC Artist Noah Bendix-Balgley on the eve of his Berlin Philharmonic solo concerto debut...

An international alert has been issued in Germany today for a 1928 Carl Becker violin - stolen from a train traveling between Berlin to...

25 year old Sejune Kim, from South Korea, and 20 year old Karolina Errera, from Russia, have been awarded joint 1st prize at the...

The St. Louis Symphony has today announced the appointment of New Zealand-born conductor, Gemma New to the position of ‘Resident Conductor’ - effective from the...

Today is Australian funster, TwoSet Violinist's Brett Yang's 26th birthday! A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, he is a former Concertmaster of the...

Applications are now open for the 2016 Sendai International Violin Competition, to be held in Sendai, Japan – from May 21st to June 5th. Open...

Jonathan M Conklin, 45 has today been sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment, in a Chautauqua County Court, for the second-degree murder of...

30 year old Hiroko Ninagawa from Japan has been awarded 1st prize at the 2017 VII Yampolsky International Violin Competition, in Moscow, Russia. A student...

The South-Korean based Novus String Quartet has been awarded the €20,000 (USD $27,000) 1st Prize at the 11th International Mozart Competition, in Salzburg. Founded in...

Dutch violinist, composer and educator Bernard van Beurden has passed away - aged 82. A student of Rudolf Escher at the Amsterdam Conservatory, he composed...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performing a surprise performance of Schumann's 'Fantasiestücke'. Recorded live on May 6th, 2017...

Today is Soviet-born virtuoso Boris Belkin’s 69th birthday. A protege of Yuri Yankelevich, Felix Andrievsky and Isaac Stern, Mr Belkin is widely respected as one...

And the winners are in! The following 5 lucky VC members will each be receiving a Coregami concert dress shirt - the world’s first moisture-wicking...

Sergei Prokofiev's Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 58 premiered on this day in 1938. The first performance was given by Alexander Melik-Pashayev with the...

Tchaikovsky's 'Variations on a Rococo Theme' Op. 33 for Cello and Orchestra premiered on this day in 1877. The first performance was given by German...

Genre-crossing string trio, Time for Three performing an improvised encore of Ben E. King's classic 'Stand by Me' - featuring VC Artist Charles Yang. Recorded live in...

New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Frank Huang and pianist Tao Lin performing Strauss' Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major. Recorded live on the 16th of January, 2018...

It has been announced today that for the first time in over 20 years, the Queen has bestowed a royal title on an UK...

Archival video of Bulgarian violinist Liya Petrova's joint-1st prize winning performance in the Final of the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, in Odense, Denmark. Applications...

The 10 Junior Semi-Finalists have just minutes ago been announced at the 2016 Menuhin Competition, in London. For the Semi-Final round, to be held on...

21 year old American violinist Annelle K. Gregory has just minutes ago been awarded the $50,000 Senior 1st Prize at the 2017 20th Annual...

The students of the École de l'Harmonie St Édouard and École secondaire de La Seigneurie, in Quebec performing John Williams' classic 'Star Wars' Theme -...

To help celebrate the international release, The Violin Channel in conjunction with Decca, is this week giving away 5 personally-autographed fresh-off-the-press Borodin String Quartet 'Shostakovich' CDs. Newly-released,...

The category prizes have been announced at the 2017 Grumiaux International Violin Competition, in Brussels, Belgium. 1st prize in the 10 years and under category...

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is currently accepting applications for the ‘Principal Violin No. 4’ position. Applications to be received by December 12th, 2016. For...

An academic study, published today in the American scientific journal PNAS, is set to send shockwaves through the 100s of millions of dollar international...

Famed American violin teacher Dorothy DeLay died on this day in 2002 - aged 84. She is remembered as one of the most respected violin...

24 year old Russian-born violinist Nadir Kashimov has been awarded 1st prize at the 2015 Washington International Competitions for Strings, in Washington DC, USA. A...

Ukrainian-born American virtuoso Louis Krasner was born on this day in 1903 - 115 years ago. A student of Lucien Capet, Otakar Sevcik and Carl Flesch,...

Archival footage of the then 15-year-old VC Young Artist Ziyu He's 1st prize winning performance in the Final of the 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians Contest...

German violinist David Garrett performing Bazzini’s 'Dance of the Goblins' - with pianist Denis Matsuev. Recorded live on December 31, 2016 - for Russia's Kultura television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYFshJBe8BY&showinfo=0&autohide=1 DAVID...

To help celebrate the international release of LGT Young Soloists' debut 'Italian Journey' CD, The Violin Channel in conjunction with RCA Red Seal Records,...

Anne Luisa Kramb‘s 1st prize winning performance in the Final of the 15 to 17 year old category of the 2016 International Louis Spohr Competition...

Tarisio Fine Instruments & Bows is set to host an exhibition in London on October 23rd and 24th dedicated to the instruments of Italian-British...

16 year old Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut performing the 3rd movement from Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major - with the Netherlands...

21 year old 'VC Young Artist' Fédor Roudine, from Russia/France has just minutes ago been awarded 1st prize at the Henri Marteau International Violin...

The University of Michigan School of Music has today announced 29 year old American violinist Danielle Belen as a new Associate Professor of Violin. A...

Seattle Symphony musicians, violinists Mikhail Shmidt and Elisa Barston, violist Susan Gulkis Assadi and cellist Walter Gray, en route to Palm Springs make surprise...

Italian-British violin virtuoso Gioconda de Vito died on this day in 1994. Ms de Vito was a former 1st prize winner at the Vienna International Violin Competition, and is remembered...

Violinist Itzhak Perlman performing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major - with conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Recorded live on...

Composer and musician Connor Gallagher performing the final movement of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony – on heavy metal electric guitar. Get a load of this ... SHOSTAKOVICH...