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COMPETITIONS
Le Concert dans l’Oeuf Miles Mullin-Chivers Sara Dragan
Chamber trio Le Concert dans l’Oeuf, comprising Mariona Mateu Carles
(double bass/violone), Arthur Cambreling (cello/viola da gamba) and Simon
Wallinger (harpsichord), has won the top award of €8,000 in the Chamber FORTHCOMING
Music Prize of the Polytechnic Society, at Frankfurt University of Music and COMPETITIONS
Performing Arts (HFMDK). e group’s members study at the HFMDK’s ˅ r V Z
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Cellist Miles Mullin-Chivers has won the NZ$10,000 (£5,000) rst prize at this in Geneva, Switzerland, for cellists born
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received the $5,000 second prize, while 21-year-old violinist Katherine Woo, Web www.concoursgeneve.ch
from the US, received $3,000 for coming third.
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comprising violinists Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Łaguniak. e duo formed
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Yugen Trio, from Germany, and third prize was shared by the Arlequin Quartet, !8$, U $316'ধধ32 ¥g 68-£
founded in Lyon, and the Stuttgart Duo, who met at the Stuttgart Musikschule. Web www.rubinstein-akademie.de
Polish violinist Sara Dragan, 20, has won rst prize in the senior category of 8!2& 8-? 1!2<'£
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a student at the Ľudovît Rajter Music School in Bratislava. www.gp-emanuelfeuermann.de
APPOINTMENTS
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