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

Lincoln center has announced the winners of the 2007 Avery Fisher Career grants. The winners are: the Borromeo String Quartet, Violinist Yura Lee and double bassist Daxun Zhang. Winners receive $25,000 each and got their prizes last week at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. At the same time, Violinist Joshua Bell was presented with the 2007 Avery Fisher prize, which was announced last month.

Russian-born conductor/pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy will weild the baton at the Sydney Symphony in Australia. He succeeds Gianluigi Gelmetti, who chose not to renew his contract when it expires in 2008. the 69-year-old Ashkenazy has appeared regularly with the Sydney Symphony and is liked by musicians, audiences and critics there.

Esa Pekka Salonen announced last week that he was leaving the MD position at the Los Angeles Philharmonic to concentrate on his composing career… but the musicians are getting another maestro they like equally as well, 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour compared him to an impressionist painter, saying "He's like a painter splashing colors on the canvas." Philharmonic Board member David Bohnett described his conducting with the band as "an electric Conduit between the musicians and the audience".

A symphony Musician in New Zealand has been charged with unlawfully possessing explosives. Bernard Shapiro, a 35-year-old French Horn Player with the Christchurch Symphony, was found to have a cache of weapons including flares, anti-personnel mines, powergel and black powder. The musician's lawyer explained that he was he was looking after the weapons for a friend.

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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