Category: Fiddle news and fun

Glenfiddich piping and fiddle champions revealed Nicola Auchnie was crowned winner of one of Scotland’s most prestigious music prizes, the Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship, this weekend, with Angus MacColl triumphing in the Glenfiddich Piping Championship. The two events took place at historic Blair Castle in Perthshire at the weekend, with the piping championship on the Saturday […]

Linden Quartet wins CAG competition US–Canadian quartet nets contract with Concert Artists GuildThe Linden Quartet has won a two-year management contract with the New York-based Concert Artists Guild. The ensemble, which is studying under the Tokyo Quartet as the graduate quartet-in-residence at Yale University, received its award as one of three winners of the 2010 […]

Gidon Kremer and the art of the small orchestra When Gidon Kremer, the great and inquiring Latvian violinist, turned 50 in 1997, he had already had his share of midlife crises, including putting down the violin for a brief period and going off on a personal quest to India. He’s not the red sports car […]

Folks in St. Luce County on the east coast of Florida, just north of Palm Beach had the opportunity to enjoy two great violin players this weekend February 27 & 28. One performing Max Bruchs Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor; and the other heating up the fiddle with The Devil Went Down to […]

Steve Lopez on Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Steve Lopez has chronicled the life of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a homeless musician with schizophrenia who sleeps each night on one of skid row’s most dangerous streets, in his columns listed here. via Steve Lopez on Nathaniel Anthony Ayers – latimes.com.

FORT MYERS. Fla. – Celebrated violinist Reiko Niiya will present “Shall We Dance – Reiko & Friends”, a concert to benefit the Southwest Florida Symphony Society on November 6, 2010 at the Royal Palm Yacht Club in Fort Myers. The concert, scheduled from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., is a celebration of favorite classical and pops music to […]

Cleveland Orchestra receives $20m gift Funding will be used to increase access for younger audiences The Cleveland Orchestra will put a gift of $20m towards the creation of a new Center for Future Audiences. The money has been pledged by the Maltz Family Foundation to support the orchestra’s plans to increase accessibility for young people. […]

Miss Ireland Fiddles Her Way To The Head Of The Miss World 2010 Betting With Violin Performance Miss Ireland Emma Waldron was already fancied by many to do well in Miss World 2010 and now she has shown she has talent to go alongside her stunning looks. Emma put down a marker and and saw […]

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has purchased the “ex-Molitor” Stradivarius violin for $3.6 million. The fiddle once belonged to Napoleon, according to a number of sources, and to a general in Napoleons amry, Count Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor, thus the name. The violin more recently was on long-term loan to Jascha Brodsky, through the Curtis Institute. Meyers will […]

Violin playing robot from Toyota As far as we know Toyota has been a car manufacturer for a really long time and they had nothing to do with robotics, but in fact the pictured violin playing robot has been under development for quite some time. The running robot from Toyota was great but this time […]