Semifinalists Named in 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover
Congratulations to the 12 semi-finalists named Wednesday in the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany! They are:
- Timothy Chooi of Canada
- Leonard Fu of Germany
- Rennosuke Fukuda of Japan
- Yuichiro Fukuda of Japan
- Mayumi Kanagawa of the United States
- Cosima Soulez Larivière of France/Netherlands
- Anna Lee of the United States
- Youjin Lee of South Korea
- Mathilde Milwidsky of Great Britain
- Seiji Okamoto of Japan
- Olga Šroubková of Czech Republic
- Dmytro Udovychenko of Ukraine
Below is the live feed for the composition (come back later to view, if it is not currently live):
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 242: Paul Huang, Ray Chen, Giora Schmidt
In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world.
Paul Huang performed the Barber Violin Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
- The Buffalo News: "His technique was splendid, and his playing was pure and straightforward. The violin he was playing (the 1742 ex-Wieniawski Guarneri del Gesu, once owned by the great Polish virtuoso Henryk Wieniawski) added another dimension."
- Buffalo Rising: "The way violinist Paul Huang played it and JoAnn Falletta conducted it was as if I’d never heard it before."
Roman Totenberg's Once-Stolen Stradivari Violin Loaned to Juilliard Student Nathan Meltzer
The 1734 "Ames" Stradivari violin once owned by Roman Totenberg -- stolen in 1980 and recovered in 2015 -- is now in the hands of Nathan Meltzer, 18, a student of Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School.
It's a new chapter for an instrument with a messy past. Totenberg, who was a pedagogue, performer and father of the well-known NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, had played that violin for 38 years, all over the world. After it was stolen from his office by a violinist named Philip Johnson, Totenberg never again saw his violin in his 101-year lifetime. When Johnson died in 2011 at age 58, he left the violin to his ex-wife. Several years later, in 2015, she came across it while doing some spring cleaning at her Los Angeles-area home and decided to have it appraised. That's when she discovered it was a stolen Stradivari and turned it over to the FBI.
The Strad was returned to Totenberg's three daughters, Nina, Amy and Jill Totenberg.
"When we three Totenberg sisters got the violin back, we were intent on just one thing," Nina reported last week on NPR. "That the instrument, now known as the 'Totenberg-Ames' Stradivarius, would be played in concert halls everywhere and not be closeted away in some collector's vault." Keep reading...
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