List of contemporary classical violinists
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This is a list of notable contemporary classical violinists.
For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists.
For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists.
Classical violinists
- Salvatore AccardoSalvatore AccardoSalvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....
(born 1941) - Ruben AharonyanRuben AharonyanRuben Mikael Aharonian or Aharonyan is an Armenian classical violinist. He has won Enescu Competition in Bucharest and Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
(born 1947) - Pierre AmoyalPierre AmoyalPierre Amoyal , is a French violinist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, graduating at age 12 with a First Prize . He then won the Ginette Neveu Prize in 1963, and the Paganini Prize in 1964. At age 17, he traveled to Los Angeles for five years of study with Jascha Heifetz, which...
(born 1949) - Gilles ApapGilles ApapGilles Apap is a French violinist who plays Romani music, swing, Irish music, and bluegrass music, as well as the masterpieces of classical music....
(born 1963) - Shmuel AshkenasiShmuel AshkenasiShmuel Ashkenasi is an Israeli violinist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Tel Aviv on January 11, 1941, he began his musical training at the Musical Academy of Tel-Aviv studying with legendary pedagogue Ilona Feher, the teacher of such violinists as Pinchas Zuckerman and Shlomo Mintz...
(born 1941) - Ik-Hwan BaeIk-Hwan BaeIk-Hwan Bae, concert violinist, was born in Seoul, Korea and made his professional debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. He attended New York City's prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1976. While there, Bae also studied with Ivan...
- Alena BaevaAlena BaevaAlena Baeva is a Russian violinist, winner of the Grand-prix at the Second Moscow Paganini violin competition in 2004, the First Prize and nine Special Prizes at the XII International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2001, and the First Prize at the International T...
(born 1985) - Jenny Oaks BakerJenny Oaks BakerJenny Oaks Baker is an American violinist. She was a first violinist in the National Symphony Orchestra for seven years. She has released nine studio albums.-Music career:Jenny Oaks Baker first began playing the violin at age four...
(born 1975) - Volodja BalžalorskyVolodja BalžalorskyVolodja Balžalorsky is a renowned Slovenian violinist.He is the winner of the Hollywood Music in Media Award, the Inland Empire Music Award 2008 - Best International Artist, the Ontario Independent Music Award - Best International Artist and a nominee of the Los Angeles Music Awards - Best...
(born 1956) - Kristóf BarátiKristof BaratiKristóf Baráti is a Hungarian violinist, and is widely regarded as one of the most talented violinists to emerge in recent years.-Early life:...
(born 1979) - William BarbiniWilliam Barbini-Biography:William Barbini is an American violinist. He took his diploma from Juilliard School in 1970, studying with Ivan Galamian, among others. He thereafter became one of the youngest members selected to the New York Philharmonic violin section...
(born 1947) - Pedro BarretoPedro BarretoPedro Barreto , is a Brazilian violinist.-Biography:The Brazilian violinist Pedro Barreto was born on 04.9.1991 in Campinas, São Paulo state, Brazil. From 2006 to 2010 he studied at the National School of Music Liubomir Pipkov in the violin class of Prof. Blagorodna Taneva...
(born 1991) - Lisa BatiashviliLisa BatiashviliLisa Batiashvili is a Georgian violinist, the daughter of a violinist father and a pianist mother. Her father was her first teacher from age 4. She later studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule...
(born 1979) - Martin BeaverMartin BeaverMartin Beaver is a Canadian violinist. As a part of the Tokyo String Quartet he plays the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin circa 1727...
(born 1967) - Joshua BellJoshua BellJoshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...
(born 1967) - Nicola BenedettiNicola Benedetti- Early life and the Yehudi Menuhin School :Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started to learn the violin at the age of four...
(born 1987) - Yehonatan BerickYehonatan BerickYehonatan Berick is a violin and viola virtuoso and pedagogue.Born in Israel, he started his musical education at the age of six. His principal violin teachers were Ilona Feher, Henry Meyer, Kurt Sassmanshauss, and Dorothy Delay...
(born 1968) - Klara BerkovichKlara BerkovichKlara Yefimovna Berkovich is a Soviet and American violinist and master violin teacher who divided her career between the Soviet Union and the United States.- Early years :...
(born 1928) - Dmitri BerlinskyDmitri BerlinskyDmitri Berlinsky is an international solo violinist, chamber musician and a teacher. He took first prize in the Paganini Competition , and was the winner of the Montreal International Violin Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels...
(born 1968) - Mikhail BezverkhnyMikhail BezverkhnyMikhail Lvovich Bezverkhny is a Russian violinist, violist and composer.-Life and career:Born in Saint Petersburg in 1947, Bezverkhny commenced his violin studies at the age of 5 at the Central Music School of the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg. He was a student of Liubov Segal and Jacob...
(born 1947) - Marat BisengalievMarat BisengalievMarat Bisengaliev is a Kazakh violinist and director of both the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and TuranAlem Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra...
(born 1962) - Gabriel BolkoskyGabriel BolkoskyGabriel Bolkosky is a classical and jazz violinist and Suzuki violin teacher. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, he started playing classical violin at a young age and discovered jazz in college...
(born 1973) - Emanuel BorokEmanuel BorokEmanuel Borok is an American violinist of Russian descent, born July 15, 1944 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He studied violin in Riga, Latvia with the renowned teacher Voldemar Sturestep and in 1959, he joined the Gnessin Music School in Moscow USSR where he continued his studies with Michael Garlitsky....
(born 1944) - Linda BravaLinda BravaLinda Magdalena Cullberg Lampenius, better known by her maiden name Linda Lampenius and international stage name Linda Brava, is a Finnish classical concert violinist and recording artist.-Background:...
(born 1970) - Robert BrinkRobert BrinkRobert Greenleaf Brink is an American violinist, conductor, and educator. He is a professor of music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts....
(born 1924) - Anshel BrusilowAnshel BrusilowAnshel Brusilow is an American conductor and violinist.Anshel Brusilow began his violin study at the age of five and entered the Curtis Institute of Music when he was eleven. He attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy and at sixteen was the youngest conducting student ever accepted by Pierre...
(born 1928) - Renaud Capuçon (born 1976)
- Jonathan CarneyJonathan CarneyJonathan Carney is a violinist, violist, and conductor noted for his interpretations of Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, Max Bruch, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius, Felix Mendelssohn, John Cage, Bruno Maderna, Pablo Sarasate, Fritz Kreisler, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paul Hindemith, Philip Glass, Toru...
- David CeroneDavid CeroneDavid Cerone was a co-founder of the ENCORE School for Strings, where he co-directed and served as faculty member since 1985. Mr. Cerone serves as a juror for many prominent national and international violin competitions and presents master classes around the world. An active chamber musician, he...
(born 1941) - Lynn ChangLynn ChangLynn Chang is a Chinese American violinist known for his work as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Chang is a founding member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is currently a faculty member at MIT, Boston University, the Boston Conservatory, and the New England Conservatory of...
- Sarah ChangSarah ChangSarah Chang is a Korean American violinist. Her debut came in 1989 with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Shortly thereafter, Chang was recognized as a child prodigy. She enrolled at Juilliard School to study music, graduating in 1999 and continuing university studies...
(born 1980) - Corinne ChapelleCorinne ChapelleCorinne Chapelle is a French-American violinist, who started her violin studies as a two-year-old and gave her first concert one year later. She studied with Yehudi Menuhin at his school in England, following which she studied at the Juilliard School of Music and joined Pinchas Zukerman’s class in...
(born 1976) - Stephanie ChaseStephanie Chase"One of the most respected classical violinists in the world," Stephanie Chase is an American concert violinist and educator.- Biography :...
(born 1957) - Anastasia ChebotarevaAnastasia ChebotarevaAnastasia Chebotareva is a Russian violinist.She debuted abroad at the 1989 Paganini Competition, where she was awarded the 4th prize. In 1994 she shared with Jennifer Koh the X Tchaikovsky Competition's 2nd prize, with no 1st prize awarded...
(born 1972) - Jiafeng ChenJiafeng ChenChen Jiafeng , born in Shanghai, is a Chinese violinist. He started to play the violin at the age of 3 and gave his first concert at 8.-Biography:...
(born 1987) - Ray ChenRay ChenRay Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.-Biography:...
(born 1989) - Katarzyna ChruscickaKatarzyna ChruscickaKatarzyna Chruscicka is a Polish violinist, well known busker and performer. She has been performing since the age of six when she was a student at a specialist music school in Koszalin, Poland...
(born 1989) - Kyung Wha Chung (born 1948)
- Stephen ClappStephen ClappStephen Clapp is a violinist and educator and former Dean of the Juilliard School.-Education:Clapp earned the B.M degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and the M.S. degree from the Juilliard School. He is a former student of Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and Andor Toth...
(born 1939) - Jeremy CushmanJeremy CushmanJeremy Stein Cushman performs internationally as a violin soloist, with performances spanning four continents.-Biography:He made his solo orchestral debut at the age of eight with the Great Neck Philharmonic and, at the age of nine, was featured on the nationally televised CBS Early Show with...
(born 1990) - Rachel Kolly d'AlbaRachel Kolly d'AlbaRachel Kolly d'Alba is a Swiss soloist violinist. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 5.-Early life:...
(born 1981) - Carlos Damas (born 1973)
- Lindsay DeutschLindsay DeutschLindsay Ann Deutsch is an American violinist. A native of Houston, Texas, Deutsch moved to Los Angeles at age 15 to pursue her performance career....
(born 1984) - Glenn DicterowGlenn DicterowGlenn Dicterow , is an American violinist and is currently concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.Mr. Dicterow's musical gifts became apparent when, at age 11, he made his solo debut with the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra...
(born 1948) - Renate EggebrechtRenate EggebrechtRenate Eggebrecht is a German violinist and record producer.Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her initial musical training from her mother, starting at the age of four. At the age of seven she became a pupil of Hans Hilf, who had studied in the master class of...
(born 1944) - James EhnesJames EhnesJames Ehnes, CM is a Canadian concert violinist.The son of Alan Ehnes, trumpet professor at Brandon University and Barbara Ehnes, former director of the Brandon School of Dance, James Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four...
(born 1976) - Ralph EvansRalph Evans (violinist)Ralph Evans is an American violinist, best known as first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet.The son of Jewish refugees from Russia and Germany, Evans began his musical studies at the age of five at the Vienna Academy of Music....
(born 1953) - Ralph FarrisRalph FarrisRalph Farris is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor. He specializes in new music and is a founding member of the string quartet ETHEL....
(born 1970) - Julia FischerJulia FischerJulia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist.-Biography:Julia Fischer, born in Munich, Germany, is of German-Slovakian parentage. Her mother, Viera Fischer , came from the German minority in Slovakia and immigrated from Košice, Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972...
(born 1983) - William FitzpatrickWilliam FitzpatrickWilliam Fitzpatrick , American violinist and conductor, is currently the director of ChamberArtsFest, an annual international chamber music festival...
(born 1949) - Annar Folleso (born 1972)
- Pamela FrankPamela FrankPamela Frank is an American violinist, equally well known as a soloist and as a proponent of chamber music.-Biography:She was born in New York City, the daughter of two pianists, Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir. She studied under Shirley Givens using the Givens Method, unlike many of her...
(born 1967) - Jennifer FrautschiJennifer FrautschiJennifer Frautschi is a Grammy-nominated American born classical violinist, currently based in where she lives with her husband, world renowned horn soloist Eric Ruske, and their 2-year-old daughter...
(born 1973) - Ilian GarnetIlian GarnetIlian Gârnet is a Moldovan violinist.He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia of Moldovan nationality. His mother is a pianist, and his father is a choreographer and a vocalist. First studying at the Chisinau Academy with B. Dubosarsky, he later relocated to Finland to study at the Sibelius Academy...
(born 1983) - David GarrettDavid GarrettDavid Garrett may refer to:*David Garrett *David C. Garrett, Jr., American businessman*David Garrett , former New Zealand politician*David Garrett , American filmmaker...
(born 1981) - Lorenzo GattoLorenzo GattoLorenzo Gatto is a Belgian violinist and recording artist.In May 2009, he came in second in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, winning 17,500 euros.-External links:* *...
(born 1986) - Jannis GeorgiadisJannis GeorgiadisJannis Georgiadis is a Greek violinist, conductor and pedagogue of Armenian descent. He is also Concertmaster of the City of Athens Symphony Orchestra...
(born 1963) - Ivry GitlisIvry GitlisIvry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras , and many of his recordings are considered classics.-Life:Born in Haifa, Mandate Palestine to Jewish immigrants from Russia,...
(born 1922) - Jack GlatzerJack GlatzerJacob Joseph Glatzer is an American violinist who resides in Portugal. He has performed as a soloist in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, and has also released several acclaimed recordings...
(born 1939) - Malcolm GoldsteinMalcolm GoldsteinMalcolm Goldstein is a composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening...
(born 1936) - Midori GotōMidori Gotois a Japanese American violinist. She made her debut at the age of 11 in a last-minute change of programming during a concert highlighting young performers by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. When she was 21, she formed the philanthropic group Midori and Friends to help bring music to...
(born 1971) - Ryu GotoRyu Gotois a Japanese-American concert violinist. Goto gained attention as a child prodigy, first performing at the age of seven in the Pacific Music Festival held in Sapporo, Japan. His debut tour of 12 cities of Japan, in 2006, was sold out.-Early life:...
(born 1988) - Philippe GraffinPhilippe GraffinPhilippe Graffin is a French violinist and recording artist. He was born in Romilly-sur-Seine, France.The French Violinist Philippe Graffin was a student of the late Joseph Gingold and Philippe Hirschhorn and has established a particular reputation for his interpretations of his native repertoire...
(born 1964) - Salvatore GrecoSalvatore Greco (Violinist)Salvatore Greco is an Italian violinist, leader of the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo, Palermo since 1991.-Biography:He studied in London with Eugene Sarbu , with Paolo Borciani , and for some years in the U.S...
(born 1964) - Ilya GrubertIlya GrubertIlya Grubert is a Latvian classical violinist. He has won Paganini Competition and Tchaikovsky Competition in 1978.Born in Riga, Grubert began his studies at the Emil Darzins School of Music. He has studied under Yuri Yankelevich and Zinaida Gilels, and then under Leonid Kogan at the Moscow...
- Erich GruenbergErich GruenbergErich Gruenberg is an Austrian-born British violinist and teacher.He was born in Vienna in 1924 and studied there and at the Jerusalem Conservatory. He led the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra 1938-45. He has lived in London since 1946. In 1947 he won the International Carl Flesch...
(born 1924) - Augustin HadelichAugustin HadelichAugustin Hadelich is a German violinist and winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Grant. He was also the gold medallist of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis...
(born 1984) - Ida HaendelIda HaendelIda Haendel, CBE is a British violinist of Polish birth.- Career :Ida Haendel was born in Chełm, a small city in Eastern Poland. She took up the violin at the age of three and as a seven-year-old was admitted at the Warsaw Conservatory. She later studied with Carl Flesch and George Enescu in Paris...
(born 1928) - Viviane HagnerViviane HagnerViviane Hagner is an internationally renowned violinist. She was born in Munich, Germany in 1977, to a German father and Korean mother.Hagner made her international debut at the age of 12, and one year later performed as soloist at the historic "Joint Concert" in Tel Aviv with the Berlin and...
(born 1977) - Hilary HahnHilary HahnHilary Hahn is an American violinist.Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia. Beginning her studies when she was three years old at Baltimore's Peabody Institute, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age ten, and in 1991, made her major orchestral debut with the...
(born 1979) - Hahn-BinHahn-BinHahn-Bin is a Korean-American violinist. He made his international debut at age twelve at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards and made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2009 following a decade of study with Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program and the Juilliard School.- 1987–1999: Early years in Korea...
(born 1987) - Amalia HallAmalia HallAmalia Hall is a New Zealand violinist.She began playing the violin at the age of three and within four years had completed all ten books of the repertoire of the Suzuki method....
(born 1989) - Ben HancoxBen HancoxBen Hancox is an English violinist, who is most famous for co-founding the Sacconi String Quartet in 2001.-Pre-Sacconi life:Hancox started playing the violin at the age of four. In his late teens he studied with Serguei Fatkouline in Madrid and Bonn, before being accepted into the Royal College of...
- Chloe HanslipChloe HanslipChloë Elise Hanslip is a British violinist.Chloë was born in Guildford, Surrey and has been playing the violin since she was two. At the age of four she performed solo at the Purcell Room. When she was five she performed for Yehudi Menuhin and subsequently, at his invitation, studied with Natasha...
(born 1987) - Maurice HassonMaurice HassonMaurice Hasson , is a French-Venezuelan violinist and a professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Born in France in 1934, and studied violin at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won a First Prize for Violin and a "Grand Prix" for chamber music...
(born 1934) - Katt HernandezKatt HernandezKatt Hernandez is a violinist living in Stockholm, Sweden with strong connection to Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. Katt's violin playing employs many virtuostic extended techniques, as well as microtones. Her influences range a vast gamut of music, and...
(born 1974) - Hu Nai-yuanHu Nai-yuanHu Nai-yuan is a Taiwanese violinist. He was the first prize winner of the 1985 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.Nai-Yuan has recorded the Goldmark Violin Concerto and Bruch Violin Concerto #2. He plays the Ex-Hubay Stradivarius....
- Frank HuangFrank HuangFrank Xin Huang is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. He has won several international music competitions, most notably the 2003 Naumburg Competition. Huang has concertized widely as a soloist, and his debut recording has been critically acclaimed...
(born 1978) - Rachel Vetter HuangRachel Vetter HuangRachel Vetter Huang is a classical violinist, recording artist and Adjunct Professor in Music at Scripps College. She is also a published scholar in general music, African-American music and jazz...
(born 1958) - Sirena HuangSirena HuangSirena Huang is a concert violinist. She is the First Prize Winner and recipient of the Audience Award of the 2011 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition....
(born 1994) - Václav HudečekVáclav HudecekVáclav Hudeček is a Czech violinist.He studied at the Prague Conservatory. While he was still only fifteen, he performed in concert on 12 November 1967 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. One day later he was heard by the legendary David Oistrach. Hudeček was the pupil of this great...
(born 1952) - Alina IbragimovaAlina IbragimovaAlina Ibragimova is a Russian-born violinist residing in the UK.-Early life and education:Ibragimova was born in Polevskoy, Russia in a Tatar family. Her family was musical, and she began playing the violin at the age of four...
(born 1985) - Petteri IivonenPetteri IivonenPetteri Iivonen is a Finnish violinist. He has studied at the Sibelius Academy, University of Southern California and the Tel Aviv University with Hagai Shaham...
(born 1987) - Jacques IsraelievitchJacques IsraelievitchJacques Israelievitch is a French violinist, and one of Canada's foremost chamber musicians.At 11 years old he was the youngest graduate in the history of the Le Mans Conservatory. He went on to study at the Conservatoire de Paris with Henryk Szeryng and René Benedetti, receiving three first...
(born 1948) - Stefan JackiwStefan Jackiw-Biography:Stefan Jackiw was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Korean mother and a German father of Ukrainian origin, both physicists. His mother, So-Young Pi, teaches at Boston University, and his father, Roman Jackiw, at MIT. His surname, pronounced jack-eev, is of Ukrainian origin...
(born 1985) - Janine JansenJanine JansenJanine Jansen is a violinist. She began to study the violin at age 6. Her father and both her brothers are also musicians. Her mother is a classical singer and is a sister of the bass Peter Kooy...
(born 1978) - Jens Byskov Jensen (born 1976)
- Dylana JensonDylana JensonDylana Jenson is an American concert violinist and violin teacher. She was, until recently, Distinguished Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and lives in that city with her husband, the conductor-cellist David Lockington, conductor of the Grand Rapids...
(born 1961) - Karen JohnsonKaren Johnson (violinist)Karen Johnson is an American violinist.She began her studies at the age of 4 in Gilbert, Arizona, and went on to win many prestigious competitions such as the Corpus Christi International Young Artist Competition, the Midland-Odessa National Young Artist Competition, the Juilliard Sibelius Violin...
- Leila JosefowiczLeila JosefowiczLeila Bronia Josefowicz , is an American/Canadian classical violinist.-Biography:Josefowicz was born in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started studying violin at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method...
(born 1977) - Ilya KalerIlya KalerIlya Kaler is a Russian violinist. He was born in Moscow.Kaler is the only violinist to win Gold Medals at these three highly prestigious competitions: the International Tchaikovsky Competition ; the Sibelius ; and the Paganini .- Education :Born into a family of an orchestral musician, Ilya Kaler...
(born 1963) - Kam NingKam NingKam Ning is a renowned violinist and daughter of violinist-composer Kam Kee Yong. Born in Singaporer in 1975, She was given violin lessons at the age of six by the elder Kam, and had her early education at the Methodist Girls' School....
- Koh Gabriel KamedaKoh Gabriel KamedaKoh Gabriel Kameda is a German-Japanese concert violinist and violin teacher.- Early life :Koh Gabriel Kameda was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, into a family of medical doctors...
(born 1975) - Mayuko KamioMayuko KamioMayuko Kamio is a Japanese violinist.Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius from 1727, previously owned by Joseph Joachim, on loan from Suntory...
(born 1986) - Suna KanSuna KanSuna Kan, born on October 21, 1936 in Adana, Turkey. Great Turkish violinist.She started playing the violin at the age of five and gave her first public concerts when she was only nine years old, performing Mozart's A major and Viotti's A minor violin concertos with the Presidential Symphony...
(born 1936) - Dong-Suk KangDong-Suk KangDong-Suk Kang is a South Korean violinist.-Biography:Kang played his first concert at the age of eight. He went to New York in 1967 to study at the Juilliard School and completed his education with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute of Music...
(born 1954) - Paul KantorPaul KantorPaul Kantor is recognized as one of the leading violin pedagogues of his generation and is one of the most in-demand teachers in the United States today. Kantor is a professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He continues the pedagogical lineage of Dorothy DeLay...
- Jean-Jacques KantorowJean-Jacques KantorowJean-Jacques Kantorow is a French violin virtuoso and conductor.-Biography:Kantorow was born in Cannes, France. From the age of 13 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with René Benedetti, and in 1960 won the first violin prize...
(born 1945) - Lewis KaplanLewis KaplanLewis Kaplan is an American violinist. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He resides on the Upper West Side in New York City with his wife, Adria...
- Ani KavafianAni KavafianAni Kavafian is a classical violinist and professor at the Yale School of Music.Kavafian was born in Istanbul to parents of Armenian descent. In 1956 she moved with her family to Detroit, by which time she had begun playing piano. She began on violin at age nine, studying under Ara Zerounian and...
(born 1948) - Ida KavafianIda KavafianIda Kavafian is a classical violinist and violist.Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began studying violin in Detroit at age six...
(born 1952) - Leonidas KavakosLeonidas KavakosLeonidas Kavakos is a Greek virtuoso violinist .-Beginnings:Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos began studying violin at five years old and continued his studies at the Hellenic Conservatory with Stelios Kafantaris. An Onassis Foundation scholarship enabled him to attend master classes...
(born 1967) - Tamaki KawakuboTamaki Kawakubois a virtuoso violinist from United States]]. She currently tours internationally as a concert artist. She released her second CD in May 2007 called "Recital!". She shared second prize awarded at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition, the highest prize awarded that year.-Early years:Tamaki...
- Yōsuke KawasakiYosuke KawasakiYōsuke Kawasaki is a noted orchestral violinist, chamber musician and soloist.Kawasaki was born in New York City. He is Japanese American. He began his violin studies at the age of six with his father, Masao Kawasaki, and continued with Setsu Goto...
(born 1977) - Gaik KazazianGaik KazazianGaik Kazazian is an Armenian violinist, winner of the III prize ex aequo of the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2001.- External links :*...
(born 1982) - Barnabás KelemenBarnabás KelemenBarnabás Kelemen is a Hungarian violinist. He began his violin studies at the age of six, with Valéria Baranyai, and at age eleven he was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music into the studio of Eszter Perényi. He received his diploma in 2001...
(born 1978) - Nigel KennedyNigel KennedyNigel Kennedy is a British born violinist and violist. He made his early career in the classical field, and he has performed and recorded most of the major violin concerti...
(born 1956) - Misha KeylinMisha KeylinSince his New York Carnegie Hall début at age 11, violinist Misha Keylin has earned critical acclaim. Keylin’s recital and guest soloist appearances with an orchestras have brought him to major venues throughout the world, spanning over forty countries across five continents.Keylin has garnered...
(born 1970) - Sergey KhachatryanSergey KhachatryanSergey Khachatryan is an Armenian violinist. He was born in Yerevan in 1985.He made his New York City debut on August 4, 2006, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Osmo Vänskä.-Prizes:...
(born 1985) - Benny KimBenny KimBenny Kim is an American violinist. His brother Eric Kim is a cellist.Kim's early teachers included Doris Preucil and Almita Vamos. He studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay, and graduated in 1986 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees. In 1981, he was a prize-winner in the Saint...
- Chin KimChin kimChin Kim is a Korean-born American classical violinist, largely educated in the United States through the Juilliard School, and the Curtis Institute of Music.-Activities:...
(born 1957) - David KimDavid KimDavid Kim is a violinist born in Carbondale, Illinois and was the only American to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986, where he got sixth prize. Since 1999, he has been the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
(born 1963) - Soovin KimSoovin KimSoovin Kim is an Korean-American violinist.Kim was born in Iowa City, IA on April 10, 1976 to South Korean parents who had met and married in their native country then moved to the U.S. together. When Soovin was 2, any hopes he may have harbored to join his fellow Iowans on a certain path to hog...
(born 1976) - Valery KlimovValery Klimov (violinist)Valeri Klimov is a Russian violinist.-Biography:Klimov was born in Kiev . He was trained at the Odessa and Moscow Conservatories...
(born 1931) - Rudolf KoelmanRudolf KoelmanRudolf Koelman is a Dutch violinist born in Amsterdam in 1959 and is currently a professor at the "Zürcher Hochschule der Künste" in Switzerland.-Biography:...
(born 1959) - Pavel KoganPavel Kogan-Biography:Though born in Kiev, Pavel and his family moved to Moscow in 1922. He studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and at the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature....
(born 1952) - Jennifer KohJennifer KohJennifer Koh is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, IL.Jennifer Koh earned a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College, as well as a Performance Diploma from the attached Oberlin Conservatory. She is also a graduate of the Curtis Institute and was silver medalist in...
(born 1976) - Herman KrebbersHerman KrebbersHerman Krebbers is a Dutch violinist.Born in Hengelo, Overijssel, Krebbers studied in Amsterdam with Oskar Back. In 1943, the 19 year-old violinist debuted with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and eventually became the Orchestra's Concertmaster in 1962.In parallel he led a shining career as a...
(born 1923) - Gidon KremerGidon KremerGidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...
(born 1948) - Oleh KrysaOleh Krysa-Early life:Oleh Krysa was born in Uchanie, now Gmina Uchanie in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, into a family of Ukrainian aristocrats. In 1945, as a result of the so-called Operation Vistula, Oleh's family found itself in Lviv, where he grew up and spent his school years.Although none of the...
(born 1942) - Yevgeny KutikYevgeny KutikYevgeny Kutik has over the years been building a prestigious violin career . A student of legendary violinist Roman Totenberg and famous pedagogue, Donald Weilerstein , Kutik recently performed at Ozawa Hall where he played solo Bach to a full audience . Mr...
(born 1985) - Pekka KuusistoPekka KuusistoPekka Kuusisto is a Finnish classical and jazz violinist.Pekka Kuusisto began studying the violin at the age of three. His first violin teacher was Geza Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. In 1983 he enrolled in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He began to study there with Tuomas...
(born 1976) - Fredell LackFredell LackFredell Lack is an American violinist. Noted as a concert soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, she is retired from a position as the C. W...
(born 1922) - Jaime LaredoJaime LaredoJaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass...
(born 1941) - Susanne LautenbacherSusanne LautenbacherSusanne Lautenbacher is a German violinist. She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund and later with Henryk Szeryng. She was a prizewinner in the early years of the Munich ARD Violin Competition...
(born 1932) - Ga-Yeon LeeGa-Yeon Lee-Background:Lee was three years old when she realized she wanted to play violin and began playing the following year on an instrument her parents purchased for her. To help her realize her dream, Lee's parents relocated from Korea to the United States. In November 2008, then 16, Lee was featured...
(born 1992) - Ida LevinIda LevinIda Levin is an American concert violinist. Born in Santa Monica, California, Levin began studying the violin at the age of three and made her professional debut performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the young age of ten. This was followed by a performance for President Reagan and the...
- Cho-liang Lin (born 1960)
- Joseph LinJoseph Lin-Early life:Lin was born in New York in 1978 to immigrants from Taiwan.He attended the Juilliard School Pre-College Division and later graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College while studying violin with Lynn Chang.-Career:...
(born 1978) - Jessica LinnebachJessica LinnebachJessica Linnebach is a Canadian classical violinist. She is a founding member of the Zukerman Chamber Players, as well as the Associate Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra...
(born 1983) - Robert LipsettRobert LipsettRobert C. Lipsett, birth name "Mister Lipsett" is a renowned violin teacher in Los Angeles, California. He holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. He also serves on the faculty at the Aspen School of Music, the Colburn Conservatory and the...
(born 1947) - Tasmin LittleTasmin LittleTasmin Little is an English violinist.She studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music, coming to prominence as a string section finalist in the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition...
(born 1965) - Yang LiuYang LiuYang Liu was born in Tsingtao, China, Liu is a Chinese classical violinist. He made his concert debut at age 10 performing Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen with the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo, and also performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in a nationally televised live concert with the Central...
(born 1976) - Hugh MaguireHugh Maguire (violinist)Hugh Maguire is an Irish violinist, leader, concertmaster and principal player of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra , leader of the Melos Ensemble and the Allegri Quartet, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and violin tutor to the National Youth Orchestra of...
(born 1927) - Robert MannRobert MannRobert Mann is a musician, composer, and conductor.He was a founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 52 years, and mentor to younger generations of string musicians....
(born 1920) - Catherine ManoukianCatherine ManoukianCatherine Manoukian is a Canadian violinist.-Background and Early Life:Catherine Manoukian was born in Toronto, Canada. She is from an ethnically diverse background, consisting of Armenian, Russian, German, and Japanese origins...
(born 1981) - Catya MaréCatya MaréCatya Maré is a composer, music producer and classical crossover violinist from Denmark, now located in Los Angeles, CA. She has performed as a classical violinist since her early childhood, and has done numerous performances at concert halls and major museums, such as National Galerie Berlin,...
(violinist, songwriter and music producer) - Yannos MargaziotisYannos MargaziotisYannos Margaziotis is a Greek violinist with a career as a soloist with several major orchestras and ensembles including the Greek National Opera Orchestra , the Athens State Orchestra, the Royal Danish Orchestra, and the Orchestra of Contemporary Music of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation...
(born 1967) - Alexander MarkovAlexander MarkovAlexander Markov is a Russian American violinist who has received awards from the Paganini International Violin Competition and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is known for his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, particularly for his interpretation of the left-hand pizzicato...
(born 1963) - Robert McDuffieRobert McDuffieRobert McDuffie is an internationally renowned violinist. He has played as a soloist with many of the major orchestras around the world including those of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota, Houston, St...
- Tymur Melnyk (born 1985)
- Anne Akiko MeyersAnne Akiko MeyersAnne Akiko Meyers is an American concert violinist. Meyers has toured and collaborated with a number of symphony orchestras and Il Divo, Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. Meyers tours with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the 'Royal Spanish'...
(born 1970) - Lucia MicarelliLucia MicarelliLucia Micarelli is an American violinist and actress best known for her collaborations with Josh Groban and classic rock band Jethro Tull, and her role as Annie in Treme.-Early Life:...
(born 1983) - Stefan MilenkovićStefan MilenkovicStefan Milenković is a Serbian concert violinist and a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.-Biography:...
(born 1977) - Madeleine MitchellMadeleine MitchellMadeleine Mitchell is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries in a wide repertoire. She has also been a member of The Fires of London and the Michael Nyman Band.-Biography:...
- Shlomo MintzShlomo MintzShlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.- Awards :...
(born 1957) - Viktoria MullovaViktoria MullovaViktoria Yurievna Mullova is a Russian violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and...
(born 1959) - Anne-Sophie MutterAnne-Sophie MutterAnne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist.- Early life :Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch...
(born 1963) - Florin NiculescuFlorin NiculescuFlorin Niculescu is a Romanian violinist of Romani ethnicity. He is considered to be the best jazz manouche violinist of our days, the successor of Stéphane Grappelli...
(born 1967) - Domenico NordioDomenico NordioDomenico Nordio is an Italian violinist, who was born in Venice .Nordio studied violin with Corrado Romano and Michèle Auclair. He began his concert career very young, winning the Vercelli "Viotti" International Competition at the age of 16, with Yehudi Menuhin as President of the panel of judges...
(born 1971) - Igor OistrakhIgor OistrakhIgor Oistrakh is a Russian violinist.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine and is the son of violinist David Oistrakh. He attended the Central Music School in Moscow and made his concert debut in 1948. From 1949 to 1955 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, winning first prizes and international...
(born 1931) - Elmar OliveiraElmar OliveiraElmar Oliveira is a contemporary American violinist.The son of Portuguese immigrants, Elmar Oliveira was born on June 28, 1950, in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Mr. Oliveira was nine when he began studying the violin with his brother John. He later continued his studies with Ariana Bronne and Raphael...
(born 1950) - Michaela PaetschMichaela PaetschMichaela Paetsch Neftel is an American violinist who was born in Colorado Springs. She is known for being the first female in the world to have recorded all 24 Paganini Caprices for solo violin.-Early life:...
(born 1961) - Tedi PapavramiTedi PapavramiTedi Papavrami, is an Albanian professional violinist and translator.-Biography:Papavrami was born in Tirana in 1971 and started to play the violin at the age of four. He studied violin with his father, well known Professor Robert Papavrami, which impacted heavily on the artistic future of his son...
(born 1971) - György PaukGyörgy Pauk-Biography:Born in Budapest, Hungary, Pauk entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music there at age twelve where he studied under Zoltán Kodály. In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.Since then he...
(born 1936) - Adela PeñaAdela PeñaAdela Peña is an American violinist best known as a founding member of the Eroica Trio.She was born in New York City and began playing the violin at age 4. In New York, she studied at the Henry Street Music School with violin/viola teacher Rochelle Walton....
- Itzhak PerlmanItzhak PerlmanItzhak Perlman is an Israeli-born violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries.-Early life:...
(born 1945) - Ioana Petcu-ColanIoana Petcu-ColanIoana Petcu-Colan is an Irish violinist of Romanian origin, currently living in Barcelona, Spain.-Biography:Ioana Petcu-Colan, born in January 1978 in Cork, Ireland is the daughter of Adrian Petcu and of Ruxandra Colan-Petcu, both her parents being musicians...
(born 1978) - Jennifer PikeJennifer PikeJennifer Pike is a British violinist. In 2002, she became well known for winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, and for six years she held the record of being the youngest winner, at twelve years of age.-Musical career:...
(born 1989) - Rachel Barton PineRachel Barton PineRachel Barton Pine is a violinist from Chicago. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 3 and a half. She played at many renowned venues as a child and teenager...
(born 1974) - Elizabeth PitcairnElizabeth PitcairnElizabeth Pitcairn is an American classical violinist. She has concertized widely as a soloist and is noted for performing on the Antonio Stradivari violin that is said to have inspired the film The Red Violin.-Childhood:...
(born 1973) - Liviu PrunaruLiviu PrunaruLiviu Prunaru is a Romanian violinist. He serves as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's concertmaster together with Vesko Eschkenazy. -Competition record:* 1991 Rodolfo Lipizer IVC, Gorizia - 1st prize. * 1992 C...
(born 1969) - Julian RachlinJulian RachlinJulian Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist and violist.-Background and early life:Born in Vilnius, he emigrated in 1978 with his musician parents to Austria. In 1983, he entered the Konservatorium Wien and studied violin in the Soviet tradition with Boris Kuschnir, while also receiving private...
(born 1974) - Henry RaudalesHenry RaudalesHenry Raudales was born in Guatemala and took his first violin lessons from his father Enrique Raudales at the age of four. Only three years later he made his début as soloist in a Mendelssohn concert in North Carolina, which attracted the attention of Yehudi Menuhin, who hired a television crew...
- Vadim RepinVadim RepinVadim Repin is a Belgian Russian violinist who currently lives in Austria....
(born 1971) - Ruggiero RicciRuggiero RicciRuggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist and his sister Emma played violin with the New York Metropolitan Opera.He is the son of Italian immigrants. His...
(born 1918) - André RieuAndré RieuAndré Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.- Early life and studies :...
(born 1949) - Guido RimondaGuido RimondaGuido Rimonda is an Italian violinist and conductor.-Biography:Born at Saluzzo in Piedmont, Rimonda studied the violin under Corrado Romano, Franco Gulli, Renato Biffoli, [Renato de Barbieri, Edoardo Oddone and Ruggiero Ricci. He made his debut at the age of 13 as the player of Corelli's sonatas in...
(born 1969) - Shahrdad Rohani
- Aaron RosandAaron RosandAaron Rosand is an American violinist.Born in Hammond, Indiana, he studied with Leon Sametini at the Chicago Musical College and with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he has taught since 1981...
(born 1927) - Yaakov RubinsteinYaakov RubinsteinYa’akov Rubinstein is an Israeli violinist.He has performed concerts in Europe, Israel, Japan, China and in the United States since he was 7 years of age....
(born 1968) - Jorge SaadeJorge SaadeJorge Saade is violinist.-Background:Mr. Saade is a "Gold Medal" graduate of the “Antonio Neumane” National Conservatory of Music. He is a “Cum Laude” graduate from the University of Miami where he received his Bachelors Degree in Music...
(born 1964) - Lara St. JohnLara St. JohnLara St. John is a Canadian violinist known for her performances as soloist with orchestra and in recital.-Childhood:Lara St. John spent her early childhood in the City of London, Ontario...
(born 1971) - Julia SakharovaJulia SakharovaJulia Sakharova is a professional violinist. A native of Zheleznovodsk, Russia, she debuted at the age of eight with the Moldavian Symphony Orchestra. Her mother is also a musician...
- Nadja Salerno-SonnenbergNadja Salerno-SonnenbergNadja Rose Catherine Salerno-Sonnenberg is an Italian-born classical violinist, author, and teacher. She is a United States citizen.-Career:...
(born 1961) - Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (born 1960)
- Olivia Dora ScheepersOlivia Dora Scheepers-Early life:Olivia Dora Scheepers was born in 1989 in Weert, the Netherlands and began playing the violin at the age of six.She had advanced studies with Yossi Zivoni and Natalia Lomeiko at the Royal College of Music in London.-Career:...
(born 1989) - Eduard SchmiederEduard SchmiederEduard Schmieder is a violinist, teacher and conductor. He is a highly regarded violin pedagogue. Lord Yehudi Menuhin said, "Eduard Schmieder is one of the outstanding teachers of the violin...
(born 1948) - Beth Ilana Schneider Duo46Duo46The American ensemble Duo46 was established in 1994 in Tucson, Arizona by guitarist Matt Gould and violinist Beth Ilana Schneider. Since then, they have emerged through their commissioning, performing around the world, recording and teaching as a leading advocate of 20th- and 21st-century chamber...
(born 1970) - Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915-2002)
- Dina SchneidermannDina SchneidermannDina Schneidermann is a violinist living in Uppsala, Sweden. She studied violin with David Oistrach in Moscow, and received a doctoral degree. Having married the Bulgarian violin professor Emil Kamilarov , Schneidermann moved to Bulgaria...
(born 1931) - Lynnette SeahLynnette SeahLynnette Seah Mei Tsing is an internationally acclaimed Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as the only musician to have performed full-time with the SSO since 1979 - a position she is holding on at the Symphony together with Alexander Souptel.She is...
(born 1957) - Gil ShahamGil Shaham-Biography:Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois, while his parents, Israeli scientists, were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illinois. His father Jacob was an astrophysicist, and his mother, Meira Diskin, was a cytogeneticist. His sister is the pianist Orli Shaham. He is a...
(born 1971) - Hagai ShahamHagai ShahamHagai Shaham is an acclaimed Israeli violin virtuoso. He began studying the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the late Professor Ilona Feher...
(born 1966) - Hyun Su ShinHyun Su ShinHyun-Su Shin is a Korean violinist.Hyun-Su Shin studies at the Korea National University of Arts. She plays a Guadagnini, which is on loan from the Kumho Asiana Foundation and she won the first great prize of Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition in 2008...
(born 1987) - Sayaka ShojiSayaka Shojiis a Japanese classical violinist. She is the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999.She was born into an artistic family and spent her childhood in Siena, Italy. She studied at Hochschule für Musik Köln under Zakhar Bron and graduated in 2004...
(born 1983) - Charlie SiemCharlie Siem-Life:Charlie Siem was born in London, England, to a Norwegian father and a British mother, and began the study of violin at the age of four. He studied at Eton College and Girton College, Cambridge, and continued his violin studies with tutors from The Guildhall School of Music and The Royal...
(born 1986) - Joseph SilversteinJoseph SilversteinJoseph Silverstein is an American violinist and conductor.As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard Silverstein, who was a public school music teacher...
(born 1932) - Alexander SitkovetskyAlexander SitkovetskyAlexander Sitkovetsky is a British violinist.-Family:Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow to a musical family; his father being guitarist and composer Alexander Sitkovetsky of the Autograph fame, mother Olga Sitkovetsky being a pianist, his great uncle and aunts being violinist Julian Sitkovetsky and...
(born 1983) - Dmitry SitkovetskyDmitry SitkovetskyDmitry Sitkovetsky is a Russian violinist and conductor.- Early life :Dmitry Sitkovetsky was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to violinist Julian Sitkovetsky and pianist Bella Davidovich. His father died in 1958, when Sitkovetsky was just three years old and the family moved to Moscow where Dmitry...
(born 1954) - Baiba SkrideBaiba SkrideBaiba Skride is a Latvian classical violinist. She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001, and has performed around the world...
(born 1981) - Alicja SmietanaAlicja SmietanaAlicja Smietana is a Polish Violinist, currently based in London.-Education:Coming from musical family she started playing the violin at the age of 5 studying under Leszek Skrobacki and later Bogdan Wozniak. She then moved on to study at the Academy of Music in Kraków with prof...
(born 1983) - Valeriy SokolovValeriy SokolovValerian Sergeevich Sokolov is a former Soviet bantamweight amateur boxer who won the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Games. He trained at Dynamo in Cheboksary. Sokolov became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1968 and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1969...
(born 1986) - Sergei StadlerSergei StadlerSergei Stadler is a Russian musician. Born in St. Petersburg on 20 May 1962, he studied the violin with David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan and took the first prize and gold medal in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is also a laureate of the Jacques Thibaud competition in Paris, where he...
(born 1962) - Steven StarykSteven StarykSteven Sam Staryk, OC is a Canadian violin virtuoso.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of Ukrainian descent, he began his musical education as a child at the Harbord Collegiate Institute...
(born 1932) - Arabella SteinbacherArabella SteinbacherArabella Steinbacher is a German classical violinist.-Biography:Steinbacher was born in Munich on November 14, 1981, to a German father and a Japanese mother. When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recently returned from Japan after studying the Suzuki method. ...
(born 1981) - Arnold SteinhardtArnold SteinhardtArnold Steinhardt , is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet....
(born 1937) - Akiko SuwanaiAkiko Suwanaiis a Japanese classical violinist.She was the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she won second place in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1989 and is a laureate of the International Japan Competition.She has studied with Toshiya Eto at the...
(born 1972) - Airi SuzukiAiri Suzuki (violinist)is a Japanese violinist. She joined the Toho Gakuen School of Music in 2005. In 2006, she was second prize winner in the XIII Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Suzuki performed her debut recital at Yokosuka in spring 2005 and was selected as best talented young violinist...
(born 1989) - Martynas Švėgžda von Bekker (born 1967)
- Vilmos SzabadiVilmos SzabadiVilmos Szabadi, sometimes referred to as Wilhelm Szabadi is one of the best known Hungarian violinists.Szabadi studied under Professor Ferenc Halász at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where on receiving his diploma, he became the youngest-ever member to join the teaching staff...
(born 1959) - Antal SzalaiAntal SzalaiAntal Zalai is a Hungarian concert violinist.Antal Zalai began his classical violin studies at the age of five. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2009 where he was a student of Kati Sebestyén...
(born 1981) - Agata SzymczewskaAgata SzymczewskaAgata Szymczewska is a Polish violinist, and a student of Academy of Music in Poznań and Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, of professors Bartosz Bryła and Krzysztof Węgrzyn...
(born 1985) - Kyoko TakezawaKyoko Takezawais a prominent Japanese-born violinist. She has recorded on both the BMG and RCA labels.She started her training in Japan as a part of the Suzuki Method program and was part of a tour of the United States. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School where her teacher was Dorothy DeLay. Ms...
(born 1970) - Arve TellefsenArve TellefsenArve Tellefsen is a Norwegian violinist.He was born and raised in Trondheim, Norway. When he was 6 years old, he began playing the violin in 'Trondheims musikkskole'...
(born 1936) - Christian TetzlaffChristian Tetzlaff-Biography:Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debut at 14 years old. He studied with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and with Walter Levine at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.He is...
(born 1966) - Gwen ThompsonGwen ThompsonGwendoline Linda Louise Thompson is a Canadian violinist and music educator. She has been a member of two notable chamber music ensembles with whom she has made several commercial recordings: the Masterpiece Trio and Viveza, the latter of which she formed in 1989 with Lee Duckles , Wilmer Fawcett...
(born 1947) - Richard TognettiRichard TognettiRichard Leo Tognetti, AO is an Australian violinist, composer and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Maribor Festival in Maribor, Slovenia....
(born 1965) - Roman TotenbergRoman TotenbergRoman Totenberg is a Polish-American violinist and educator.He is the father of National Public Radio journalist Nina Totenberg...
(born 1911) - Viktor Tretyakov (born 1946)
- Lana TrotovsekLana TrotovsekLana Trotovšek is a Slovenian violinist and member of The Greenwich Trio.-Early life and education:Lana Trotovšek was born in 1983 to a family of gifted musicians in Ljubljana, Slovenia...
(born 1983) - Uto UghiUto UghiDiodato "Uto" Ughi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1992-1997...
(born 1944) - Almita VamosRoland and Almita VamosRoland and Almita Vamos are a husband and wife who are among the leading violin and viola instructors in the world. Their pupils have become prominent soloists, members of world renowned chamber groups and orchestras, and laureates of prestigious international competitions...
(born 1938) - Roland VamosRoland and Almita VamosRoland and Almita Vamos are a husband and wife who are among the leading violin and viola instructors in the world. Their pupils have become prominent soloists, members of world renowned chamber groups and orchestras, and laureates of prestigious international competitions...
(born 1930) - Vanessa-MaeVanessa-MaeVanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson , known professionally as Vanessa-Mae , is an internationally known British violinist. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style...
(born 1978) - Jaap van ZwedenJaap van ZwedenJaap van Zweden is a Dutch conductor and violinist.-Biography:Van Zweden's father, a pianist, encouraged him to begin violin studies at age five, and he studied music in Amsterdam...
(born 1960) - Maxim VengerovMaxim VengerovMaxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....
(born 1974) - Emmy VerheyEmmy Verhey-Biography:Verhey got her first violin when she was 7. Recognized soon as a child prodigy, she went to study at age 8 with Oskar Back. Later she studied with Herman Krebbers, Bela Dekany, Wolfgang Schneiderhan...
(born 1949) - Zino VinnikovZino VinnikovZino Vinnikov is one of the leading representatives of the St. Petersburg Russian violin tradition.He studied with Abram Shtern, and later at the Leningrad Conservatoire with Mikhail Waiman and Benjamin Sher, himself a pupil of the legendary Leopold Auer. While still a student, he won First...
(born 1943) - Jean-Pierre WallezJean-Pierre WallezJean-Pierrre Wallez is a French violinist and conductor.-Career:Wallez was born in Lille. He graduated in first place in violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. He won the highest prize of the 1960 Paganini Competition in Genoa after...
(born 1939) - David WhistonDavid WhistonDavid Whiston grew up in Yorkshire, England and received violin lessons from his early childhood. He made his first television appearance at the age of 12. A year later he won first prize at the Blackpool Music Festival....
(born 1941) - Camilla WicksCamilla WicksCamilla Wicks is an American violinist and one of the first female violinists to establish a major international career...
(born 1928) - Wanda Wiłkomirska (born 1929)
- Esther YooEsther YooEsther Yoo , is the youngest laureate of the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2010. Prior to Sibelius violin competition, Yoo was awarded the First Prize at the 10th International Wieniawski Violin Competition for Young Violinists , European Union Award for Music Art for...
(born 1994) - Diana YukawaDiana Yukawais an Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1.-Early life:Diana Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month after her father died in the 1985 Japan Airlines Flight...
(born 1985) - Frank Peter ZimmermannFrank Peter ZimmermannFrank Peter Zimmermann is a German violinist.He was born in Duisburg, Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10....
(born 1965) - Nikolaj ZnaiderNikolaj ZnaiderNikolaj Znaider is a Danish classical violinist and conductor.-Career:Born in Denmark to Polish-Israeli parents, Znaider studied with the eminent Russian pedagogue Boris Kushnir and drawing on this eclectic background his playing has been heralded in the Strad Magazine as "extraordinarily...
(born 1975) - Fabrizio ZoffoliFabrizio ZoffoliFabrizio Zoffoli is an Italian classical violinist.- Life :Zoffoli began to study the violin at age seven with Piero Raffaelli and first appeared on stage at the age of eight...
(born 1987) - Pinchas ZukermanPinchas ZukermanPinchas Zukerman is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45-year career has seen him perform with the world's best-known orchestras and record over 100 works...
(born 1948)
Baroque violinists
- Chiara BanchiniChiara BanchiniChiara Banchini is a Swiss violinist, involved in the historical performance practice movement. She specializes in the music of the Baroque.Banchini was born in 1946 in Lugano, Switzerland. She graduated from the Geneva Conservatory; following this she studied under Sandor Vegh and then at the...
(born 1946) - Fabio BiondiFabio BiondiFabio Biondi is an Italian violinist and conductor.Born in Palermo, Sicily, Biondi began his international career at the age of 12 playing a concerto with the RAI Symphony Orchestra. When he was 16, he performed Bach's violin concertos at the Musikverein in Vienna...
(born 1961) - Giuliano CarmignolaGiuliano CarmignolaGiuliano Carmignola is an Italian violinist.- Life :Coming from a family of musicians, Carmignola began his violin studies with the support of his father Antonio to enter the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia with Luigi Ferro...
(born 1951) - Lucy van DaelLucy van DaelLucy van Dael is a Dutch baroque violinist and member of the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her principal violin studies were at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague....
(born 1946) - Enrico GattiEnrico GattiEnrico Gatti is a baroque violinist.Gatti graduated from the Geneva Conservatory as a puplil of Chiara Banchini and the Dutch Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Sigiswald Kuijken. He has been a professor of Baroque violin at several conservatories...
(born 1955) - Reinhard GoebelReinhard GoebelReinhard Goebel is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments. Goebel received his first violin lessons at the age of twelve...
(born 1952) - Gottfried von der GoltzGottfried von der GoltzGottfried von der Goltz is a German-Norwegian violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. His first teachers were his parents, Georg Conrad von der Goltz and Kirsti Hjort. After further education in Hannover, New York and Freiburg he joined the radio orchestra of the...
(born 1964) - Thomas HengelbrockThomas HengelbrockThomas Hengelbrock is a German violinist, musicologist, stage director and conductor.- Biography :Thomas Hengelbrock studied the violin with Rainer Kussmaul and started his career in Würzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau...
(born 1958) - John HollowayJohn Holloway (musician)John Holloway is a British baroque violinist and conductor, currently based in Dresden, Germany. John Holloway is a pioneer of the early music movement....
(born 1948) - Monica HuggettMonica HuggettMonica Huggett is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist.-Biography:At the age of 16, Huggett started studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Manoug Parikian and Kato Havas, baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken.She co-founded and served as leader of the Amsterdam Baroque...
(born 1953) - Sigiswald KuijkenSigiswald KuijkenSigiswald Kuijken is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on authentic instruments.-Biography:Kuijken was born in Dilbeek, near Brussels. He was a member of the Alarius Ensemble of Brussels between 1964 and 1972 and formed La Petite Bande in 1972...
(born 1944) - Jeanne LamonJeanne LamonJeanne Lamon , violinist and conductor, born in New York, was raised in New York state, and began studying the violin at the age of seven. She studied violin at the Westchester Conservatory of Music with Editha Braham...
(born 1949) - Andrew ManzeAndrew ManzeAndrew Manze is an English violinist and conductor.As a guest conductor Manze has regular relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
(born 1965) - Eduard MelkusEduard MelkusEduard Melkus is an Austrian violinist and violist.Following the Second World War, Melkus dedicated himself to the exploration of historically informed performance...
(born 1928) - Ioana Petcu-ColanIoana Petcu-ColanIoana Petcu-Colan is an Irish violinist of Romanian origin, currently living in Barcelona, Spain.-Biography:Ioana Petcu-Colan, born in January 1978 in Cork, Ireland is the daughter of Adrian Petcu and of Ruxandra Colan-Petcu, both her parents being musicians...
(born 1978) - Rachel PodgerRachel PodgerRachel Podger is an English violinist specialising in the performance of baroque music. She often conducts baroque orchestras from the violin, and in 2004 took up a guest directorship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, having previously been leader of The English Concert from 1997 to...
(born 1968) - Hélène SchmittHélène SchmittHélène Schmitt is a prize-winning French violinist and a professor of baroque violin in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.Schmitt first started out as a chamber musician before specialising in baroque music. She spent 10 years in Bâle, Switzerland, next to Chiara Banchini and Jesper Bøje Christensen...
- Jaap SchröderJaap SchröderJaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and pedagogue.He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France. He has served as the director and concertmaster of the Academy of Ancient Music, and in 1982 he was appointed the visiting music director of the...
(born 1925) - Simon StandageSimon StandageSimon Andrew Thomas Standage is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.- Biography and career :...
(born 1941) - Elizabeth WallfischElizabeth WallfischElizabeth Wallfisch is an Australian Baroque violinist.Wallfisch debuted as a concert soloist at the age of 12 and took part in such competitions as the ABC Concerto Competition. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Frederick Grinke and was awarded, among other prizes, the President's...
(born 1952)
External links
- Legendary Violinists (a public arts website)
- Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee, an 1889 publication at Project GutenbergProject GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...
- Violinists and Violists on the Web Alphabetical listings of web pages on string players, past and present.