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Klein Competition Celebrates Anniversary
San Francisco State University’s Irving M. Klein International String Competition is celebrating 25 years in June. An anniversary concert will take place June 10, and the semifinal and final rounds will be June 12–13. This year’s semifinalists, selected from 65 entrants from four continents and the nation’s top conservatories, will vie for $20,000 in prizes. The anniversary concert features the Alexander and Cypress string quartets, violist Michi Aceret, past winners, and pianist Jon Nakamatsu performing works by Ysa˙e, Kreisler, and Brahms. creativearts.sfsu.edu/klein
Donatis Win First Parker Quartet Contest
The Donati String Quartet—Oberlin Conservatory of Music students violinists Holly Jenkins and Lauren Manning, violist DJ Cheek, and cellist Mary Auner—have won the Parker Quartet Master Class Contest. The Parkers are artists-in-residence of Performance Today, American Public Media’s popular public radio program. The Donatis traveled to St. Paul, Minnesota last week to study with the Parkers. performancetoday.publicradio.org/features/2010/parker_quartet/index.shtml
LA Phil Donates $25K to Nashville Symphony
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, its musicians and conductor Gustavo Dudamel, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, have given $25,000 to the Nashville Symphony to help replace one of the Steinway pianos the Nashville orchestra lost in the recent flooding. Thibaudet, who had hand-picked one of the damaged Steinways, has agreed to select a replacement piano. nashvillesymphony.org
DePue Brother Plays Fund-raiser
Award-winning fiddler Alex DePue, a touring member of the Steve Vai Band, will join his friend Scott Ballard in a family-oriented country-rock show May 23 at the Clazel Theater in downtown Bowling Green, Ohio. Proceeds from the show will go toward getting Ballard’s seven-year-old blind son, Jalen, to the National Braille Challenge in Los Angeles. zvents.com/bowling-green-oh/events/show/117569425-the-depue-brothers-presents-scott-ballard
Trio Cavatina to Perform World Premiere
Trio Cavatina—violinist Harumi Rhodes, cellist Priscilla Lee, and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute—will give the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s “The Faces of Guernica,” which was inspired by Picasso’s iconic antiwar mural. The work was commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation. The program, at Carnegie Hall on May 26, also will include the Leon Kirchner Trio No. 2, and the Beethoven Trio, Op. 1, No. 1, in E-flat major and Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”). triocavatina.com
Apocalyptica Storms the USA
Finland’s Apocalyptica, the popular heavy-metal all-cello ensemble, embarks on a North American tour to promote its album 7th Symphony, which will be released in August. The first single, “End of Me,” features vocals by Bush’s Gavin Rossdale. The tour starts May 21 in Nashville, Tennessee, and continues through a July 15 headline show at the Buffalo Town Ballroom in New York. apocalyptica.com
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