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2nd July: Music for Youth addresses board diversity, Siemens Music Foundation supports music students, Violinist Ida Handel died at the age of 91

Thursday 2nd July 2020

Music for Youth addresses board diversity

National music charity Music for Youth is making changes to its governance with the aim of addressing racial and gender imbalances. 

The charity has named four new members of its board, three of whom are women and two of whom are people of colour: Arfa Butt, music and talent director; Samantha Space, assistant head of service at Ealing Music Service; Simon Bull, a performer and associate brass teacher with Richmond Music Trust who also works in fundraising and business development; and Liz Hutchinson, director of communications for the British Academy.

The charity is also aiming to create more opportunities and spaces for young people from diverse groups, including through its digital festival, Elevate (7-11 July 2020), which celebrates multi-disciplinary music-making by young people from all backgrounds.

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Siemens Musikstiftung unterstützt Musikstudierende mit zwei Millionen Euro

Für Studierende in akuter pandemiebedingter Notlage gibt es finanzielle Überbrückungshilfen des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung. Für Musikstudierende gibt es ergänzend auch noch privates Geld von der Siemens Musikstiftung.

Auch die Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung reagiert auf die Corona-Pandemie und unterstützt finanziell in Not geratene Musikstudierende der staatlichen Musikhochschulen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Nach dem Kriterium der Bedürftigkeit wird an Musikstudierende eine Nothilfe von einmalig 500 Euro ausbezahlt, wie die Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover mitteilte.

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Siemens Music Foundation supports music students with two million euros

For students in acute pandemic emergency situations, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides financial bridging assistance. For music students there is also private money from the Siemens Music Foundation.

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is also responding to the Corona Pandemic by providing financial support to music students in need at the state music academies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. According to the criterion of need, music students will receive a one-time emergency payment of 500 euros, as announced by the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

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Ida Haendel, immense violoniste, est morte à l’âge de 91 ans

Ida Haendel, d’origine polonaise, naturalisée britannique, compte parmi les plus grand(e)s violonistes du 20esiècle. Elle fut la 1ère soliste occidentale à se produire en Chine après la Révolution culturelle en 1973 avec le Philharmonique de Londres et a inspiré toute une génération de violonistes. Elle est morte le mardi 30 juin à l’âge de 91 ans, chez elle à Miami.

Née en 1928 à Chelm en Pologne, Ida Haendel a commencé à apprendre le violon à l’âge de 4 ans au Conservatoire de Varsovie où elle étudie avec Miecyzslaw Michalowicz. Un talent précoce qui lui permit, en 1935, alors qu’elle n’a que 7 ans, d’être finaliste du concours international de violon Henryk Wienawski, qui consacra cette année-là Ginette Neveu et David Oïstrakh.

Elle se perfectionne ensuite auprès de George Enesco à Paris et Carl Flesch à Londres où elle fait ses débuts sur scène en 1937 et où elle acquiert, en 1940, la nationalité britannique. Elle séjourna à Londres jusqu’au début des années 50 avant de partir à Montréal où elle résida jusqu’en 1989, tout en restant très attachée à la Grande-Bretagne. Elle participa d’ailleurs 68 fois au célèbre gala des BBC Proms et fut faite en Commandeur dans l’Ordre de l’Empire britannique par la reine Elisabeth II en 1993.

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Ida Handel, an immense violinist, died at the age of 91

Ida Handel, of Polish origin, naturalized British, is one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. She was the first Western soloist to perform in China after the Cultural Revolution in 1973 with the London Philharmonic and inspired a whole generation of violinists. She died on Tuesday June 30 at the age of 91, at her home in Miami.

Born in 1928 in Chelm, Poland, Ida Handel began learning the violin at the age of 4 at the Warsaw Conservatory where she studied with Miecyzslaw Michalowicz. This precocious talent enabled her, in 1935, when she was only 7 years old, to be a finalist in the Henryk Wienawski International Violin Competition, which that year consecrated Ginette Neveu and David Oïstrakh.

She then studied with George Enesco in Paris and Carl Flesch in London, where she made her stage debut in 1937 and acquired British nationality in 1940. She stayed in London until the early 1950s before moving to Montreal, where she lived until 1989, while remaining very attached to Great Britain. She participated 68 times in the famous BBC Proms gala and was made a Commander in the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993.

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