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10 THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THIS WEEK
1. New York Philharmonic has extended Music Director Alan Gilbert’s contract for an additional 3 years
2. Young Concert Artists’ violinist Paul Huang made an impressive debut at Washington’s Kennedy Center
3. A previously unidentified hymn arrangement by Beethoven has been unearthed
4. Irish violist Garth Knox has been appointed to the teaching faculty of the Royal Northern College of Music
5. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has cancelled all concerts through to November 4th - after failed attempts to negotiate a salary agreement
6. Janine Jansen has released a new album - featuring Prokofiev’s 2nd Concerto, 1st Sonata and Sonata for 2 Violins
7. Esteemed pedagogue Josef Gingold would have turned 103 this week
8. 16 year old Harry Ward from Sydney was awarded 1st prize in the Australian National Youth Concerto Competition
9. This week saw the 38th and 63rd anniversaries of the passing of David Oistrakh and Ginette Neveu
10. The Violin Channel has launched its ‘Great Orchestral Roll Call’ - featuring 175+ of the world’s greatest orchestras and 20,000+ of the world’s finest orchestral musicians
