It's KBAQ's "This week in classical music" -- an update on what's happening in the classical music world... I'm Randy Kinkel.

Violinist Joshua Bell is this year's winner of the Coveted Avery Fisher prize. The Grammy-award-winning violinist from Indiana won the Avery Fisher career grant for promising American Classical performers at age 19. the current Fisher prize honors achievement in a career, and will be presented to Bell in April. Included with the award is a $75,000 cash prize.

Houston-Based Pianist and Composer Pierre Jalbert has been awarded the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's 2007 Elise L Stoeger Prize, which is awarded in recognition of a body of work in the field of Chamber Music. Jalbert is one of the youngest composers to ever receive the award, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize.

Italian Composer Franceso Lotoro has been collecting music composed in prisons and concentration camps during World War II. The collection has found a home at Third University in Rome, and the library, which opens in September, will offer scholars a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches including music sheets, letters, drawings and photos. Some of the music is scribbled on diaries, loose pages or even toilet paper. The rome library includes music written by Gypsies, Jews, and other prisoners in Nazi camps. Lotoro says, "These Musicians were hoping for a musical life for themselves, and they would have had it if their destiny had been different... we are trying to right a great wrong."

A swiss musical scholar has tracked down the piano Chopin took on his last concert tour almost 160 years ago. Chopin took a pleyel piano with him when he left Paris for a tour of England and Scotland in 1848, and when he left he sold the grand piano to an English aristocrat named lady trotter. The piano was bequeathed to one of Trotter's relatives and ended up in a country mansion before going to auction and then was bought by a collector named Alec Cobbe, who bought it 20 years ago for about 5,000 dollars.. said, Cobbe, "I had absolutely no idea we had a world Monument of Western Music.".

For more information on these and other items and events, go to the KBAQ website at KBAQ.org... be listening every week at this time for another update, and join me at noon every weekday for the Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. I'm Randy Kinkel, for KBAQ's "This week in Classical Music" on 89.5 KBAQ Phoenix, a service of Rio Salado College and Arizona State University.

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