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Piano prodigy plays French chamber pieces for new album

China Daily 13 Oct 2021

Wu discovered the charm of chamber music during her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK, which, according to Wu, puts a strong emphasis on chamber music in its education, encouraging students to rehearse together to gain relevant experience ... study at the music school.

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Where Corals Lie by Julia Sitkovetsky and Christopher Glynn is an album sympathetic to the ...

The Daily Mail 10 Oct 2021

Julia Sitkovetsky and Christopher Glynn. Where Corals Lie Chandos, out now. Rating .. This excellent album, vividly recorded in May at the Yehudi Menuhin School, sheds welcome light on a little known part of Elgar’s output. his songs ... It’s an entertaining piece, even if the poetry isn’t up to much ... Elgar loved words, but had poor literary taste ... .

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Nigel Kennedy on his Classic FM fight: ‘Hendrix is like Beethoven, Vivaldi is more Des O’Connor’

The Observer 28 Sep 2021

Photograph ... “Not that I’d mind ... Bach ... Brighton-born Kennedy, a world class virtuoso violinist, was just six when his music teacher mother sent him to audition at what he jokingly calls “Yehudi Menuhin’s school of precocious brats” in Surrey, but he could have become a rocker ... Kennedy later studied at New York’s Juilliard School, part-funded by busking.

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Two concerts at SZ Concert Hall

Shenzhen Daily 31 Aug 2021

Prior to this, at the age of 11, he was selected by legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England and was subsequently a junior prizewinner in the inaugural Menuhin Competition in 1983. In 1989, he went to the Juilliard School in the United States.

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Lyu Siqing to grace SZ with two concerts

Shenzhen Daily 31 May 2021

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The Fiddle: When inanimate objects tell a family's history

The Jerusalem Post 17 Dec 2020

Over 100 years since her grandfather taught the tsar’s children to play the violin, Cumming, who plays the piano herself, has had the violin restored and donated it to the Yehudi Menuhin music school in England.

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Classical musicians in need of bailout

Taipei Times 26 Oct 2020

Conductor Sir Simon Rattle and violinist Tasmin Little are among those warning that struggling artists will be forced to give up ... “Next month, we will all expect to hear the traditional sound of music as we commemorate Armistice Day,” Little, an acclaimed virtuoso musician who trained as a child at the Yehudi Menuhin School, said ... 30 ... TINY PROPORTION.

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Bail out our musicians or risk losing them for ever, say classical music stars

The Guardian 25 Oct 2020

... expect to hear the traditional sound of music as we commemorate Armistice Day,” said Little, an acclaimed virtuoso musician who trained as a child at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

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Lyu Siqing to grace Pingshan Theater on Sunday

Shenzhen Daily 23 Sep 2020

27 in Pingshan. Pianist Xue Yingjia will accompany Lyu ... Prior to this, at the age of 11, he was selected by legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England and was subsequently a junior prizewinner in the inaugural Menuhin Competition in 1983. In 1989, he went to the Juilliard School in the United States ... Time ... 27 ... .

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Violin recital by Lyu Siqing

Shenzhen Daily 07 Sep 2020

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The Scotsman Sessions #41: Jane Atkins

Scotsman 29 May 2020

Atkins started her music career early, demanding a violin for her fourth birthday. By six she had enrolled at the Yehudi Menuhin School ... “But just in case, I've been studying horticulture.” ... .

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Irish DJ Daniel Blume spreads love in a Covid climate

RTE 09 Apr 2020

A graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin school, which he attended on a Rolling Stones scholarship, he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year at 15 and had a Billboard Airplay Dance Chart No ... After boarding at the Yehudi Menuhin school and that prestigious the BBC prize, his dance ...

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UK school sends support and goodwill to China

China Daily 10 Mar 2020

Richard Tanner, interim head of Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK, has expressed support to virus-stricken China.

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Who is Nicola Benedetti, the UK's newest Grammy winner?

ITV 27 Jan 2020

A 32-year-old Scottish violinist has won a Grammy for Best Classic Instrumental Solo in Los Angeles over the weekend. Nicola Benedetti, from North Ayrshire in Scotland, won the gong for her solo performance in Marsalis ... Credit. AP ... By age 10 she had left school to join the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School for gifted musicians in Surrey ... PA ... ....

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The teenage sweethearts who went their separate ways, were brought back together by music, married, ...

South China Morning Post 09 Nov 2019

Wu Qian was 13 when she left China for the UK in 1997 ... By the age of nine, she was studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Less than four years later Wu was chosen to play to a delegation from the UK-based Yehudi Menuhin School. They were impressed, and soon… ... .