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Lee You-bien Wins Top Prize at 2025 Isang Yun Cello Competition

Lee You-bien Wins Top Prize at 2025 Isang Yun Cello Competition

Cellist Lee You-bien has claimed first prize at the 2025 Isang Yun Competition, the Tongyeong International Music Foundation announced on Sunday. Lee impressed the judges with his performance of Shostakovich’s...

Lee You-bien Wins Top Prize at 2025 Isang Yun Cello Competition

Cellist Lee You-bien has claimed first prize at the 2025 Isang Yun Competition, the Tongyeong International Music Foundation announced on Sunday. Lee impressed the judges with his performance of Shostakovich’s...

Gautier Capuçon Plays the Cello Mid-Zipline for Max Richter Music Video

Gautier Capuçon Plays the Cello Mid-Zipline for Max Richter Music Video

Written by Chantal Gapato  |  November 9, 2025   In an extraordinary feat that merges art and adventure, French cellist Gautier Capuçon has performed Sequence for Gaïa by Max Richter...

Gautier Capuçon Plays the Cello Mid-Zipline for Max Richter Music Video

Written by Chantal Gapato  |  November 9, 2025   In an extraordinary feat that merges art and adventure, French cellist Gautier Capuçon has performed Sequence for Gaïa by Max Richter...

$250K Grancino Violin and Two Bows Stolen from Train in the Netherlands

$250K Grancino Violin and Two Bows Stolen from Train in the Netherlands

A Giovanni Grancino violin from 1690, estimated to be worth around $250,000, has been reported stolen while traveling on a train from The Hague to Breda in the Netherlands on...

$250K Grancino Violin and Two Bows Stolen from Train in the Netherlands

A Giovanni Grancino violin from 1690, estimated to be worth around $250,000, has been reported stolen while traveling on a train from The Hague to Breda in the Netherlands on...

Maestro Giuseppe Vessicchio Passes Away at 69 in Rome

Maestro Giuseppe Vessicchio Passes Away at 69 in Rome

Renowned Italian conductor and composer Giuseppe “Beppe” Vessicchio passed away on November 8, 2025 in Rome at the age of 69.

Maestro Giuseppe Vessicchio Passes Away at 69 in Rome

Renowned Italian conductor and composer Giuseppe “Beppe” Vessicchio passed away on November 8, 2025 in Rome at the age of 69.

Van Cliburn: The Rise of An Icon

Van Cliburn: The Rise of An Icon

At just twenty-three, Van Cliburn entered the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition. The competition’s organizing committee head was the iconic composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and the jury included legendary Soviet figures like...

Van Cliburn: The Rise of An Icon

At just twenty-three, Van Cliburn entered the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition. The competition’s organizing committee head was the iconic composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and the jury included legendary Soviet figures like...

Four Cellists Reach the Final Round of the 2025 Isang Yun Competition

Four Cellists Reach the Final Round of the 2025 Isang Yun Competition

The final round will take place on 8 November, with each competitor performing a concerto alongside the Tongyeong Festival Orchestra under the direction of Leoš Svárovský. The finalists are Andrew...

Four Cellists Reach the Final Round of the 2025 Isang Yun Competition

The final round will take place on 8 November, with each competitor performing a concerto alongside the Tongyeong Festival Orchestra under the direction of Leoš Svárovský. The finalists are Andrew...