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RAB Trust blog

RAB Awards 2019

April 24, 2019

The RAB Trust awards for 2019 were decided at a Trustees meeting in March.  From 24 applications, we made 15 financial awards ranging from £100 to £500, totalling £4,389.42, and arranged 10 work ... Read Article

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RNCM 2019: Two baroque cellos in two weeks. Part 1: a tale of monstrous work

April 13, 2019

Jahanava Gargallo, a third year student at Newark, was funded by the RAB Trust as a helper/observer during a recent project at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where four violin ... Read Article

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Violin maker in Palestine

November 15, 2018

The Guardian features our former award winner Shehada Shalalda - have a read: Violin maker in Palestine brings sweet sounds to troubled landscape It is said that the hardest thing you can do ... Read Article

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RAB Oberlin Award 2018 – Mathieu Fourrier

September 22, 2018

Mathieu was the lucky recipient of our biennial award which funds attendance at the Oberlin Violin Makers summer school in Ohio. "This year I was fortunate enough to be sponsored by the RAB trust to ... Read Article

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2017, Mathieu Fourrier

Education Services

July 3, 2018

The RAB Trust has been supported for much of its existence with grants from the charity Education Services. This is a small charity, originally set up in the 1930s by Cambridge economist Jack ... Read Article

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Viola by Rowan Armour-Brown

July 1, 2018

At our recent RAB Trustees meeting we were presented with a  jewel of a viola. It has an interesting history. It was one of the last violas made by the namesake of our Trust, Rowan Armour-Brown. It ... Read Article

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RAB Special Awards 2018

July 1, 2018

As the RAB Trust has developed over its more than twenty years, we have become more ambitious in the range and scope of our awards. From those who apply each year, we invite some of the best ... Read Article

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RAB Awards 2018

July 1, 2018

The RAB Trustees held their annual meeting in May 2018. This was a momentous meeting; the last to be directed and hosted by our longstanding Chair, Rachel Douglas. With a light but firm touch, Rachel ... Read Article

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Tool Sale 2018

May 22, 2018

A valuable aspect of the RAB Trust work is passing tools and materials on to students that are no longer wanted by their owners. The most efficient way to do this has evolved into the tool sales held ... Read Article

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Hanna Stumpfl – RAB Special Award 2017

May 13, 2018

Hanna was the lucky recipient of the RAB Special Award for 2017, a cheque for £1000.  The RAB Trust makes this award each year to an outstanding student from a number who were invited to submit a ... Read Article

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2017, NSVM, RAB Special award

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