All posts tagged "violin"

  • Christel Lee (Dorothee Falke)
    Christel Lee first Korean to win Sibelius violin competition

    Christel Lee, 25, won the 11th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki Thursday. The competition, founded in 1965, is held every five years and saw 234 participants from 29 countries this year. Lee received a prize...

    • Posted December 7, 2015
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  • Ames Stradivarius
    Good news: Stolen Stradivarius violin recovered after 35 years

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Renowned violinist Roman Totenberg left his beloved Stradivarius in his office while greeting well-wishers after a concert in 1980. When he returned, it was gone. Its case was later found in the basement of...

    • Posted August 6, 2015
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  • Program provides free violin lessons to disadvantaged children

    A global non-profit organization, Love Violin, will begin a program to give free violin lessons to children in New York and New Jersey who cannot otherwise afford it. Love Violin President Choi Hye-jung said the program, which...

    • Posted July 15, 2014
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