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List Of Contemporary Classical Violinists
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. Classical violinists A * Rochelle Abramson * Irene Abrigo (born 1988) * Salvatore Accardo (born 1941) * Diana Adamyan (born 2000) * Ayke Agus (born 1949) * Ruben Aharonyan (born 1947) * Sanford Allen (born 1939) * Levon Ambartsumian (born 1955) * Pierre Amoyal (born 1949) * Božena Angelova (born 1981) * Adele Anthony (born 1970) * Gilles Apap (born 1963) * Irvine Arditti (born 1953) * Cecylia Arzewski (born 1948) * Shmuel Ashkenasi (born 1941) * Christina Åstrand (born 1969) * Kinga Augustyn * Daniel Austrich (born 1984) * Felix Ayo (born 1933) B * Alena Baeva (born 1985) * Jenny Oaks Baker (born 1975) * Kristine Balanas (born 1990) * Volodja Balžalorsky (born 1956) * Kristóf Baráti (born 1979) * William Barbini (born 1947) * Pedro Barreto (born 1991) * Lisa Batiashvili (born 1979) * Elise Båtnes (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Classical Violinists
This is a list of notable classical violinists from the baroque era to the 21st century. For a more comprehensive list of contemporary classical violinists, see List of contemporary classical violinists. Baroque era * Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) * Thomas Baltzar (c. 1630–1663) * Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704) * Pasquale Bini (1716–1770) * Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) * Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742) * Matthew Dubourg (1707–1767) * André-Joseph Exaudet (1710–1762) * Carlo Farina (1600–1640) * Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762) * Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770) * Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764) * Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764) * Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) * Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762) * Nicola Matteis (1670–1714) * Davis Mell (1604–1662) * Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711–1772) * Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755) * Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623–1680) * Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763) * Giuseppe T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinga Augustyn
Kinga Augustyn is a New York City-based virtuoso violinist. She has established an international career having performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, recitalist, and recording artist. Early life and education Augustyn was born in Wrocław, Poland into a family of professional musicians. Her father, Roman Augustyn, was a bassoonist with the Wrocław Opera Orchestra. He died at age 33. Her mother, Mariola Augustyn, is a professional singer (spinto soprano), music and speech therapist, and actress. Her younger brother, Jakub Augustyn, is a professional jazz guitarist. Augustyn's formal violin training started at the age of seven. She attended Państwowa Podsawowa Szkola Muzyczna (now Ogólnokształcąca Szkoła Muzyczna I Stopnia) im. Karola Szymanowskiego in Wrocław, where she studied violin with Aleksandra Bogdan for six years. She then enrolled in Państwowe Liceum Muzyczne (now Ogólnokształcąca Szkoła Muzyczna II Stopnia) im. Karola Szymanowskiego in Wrocław as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanja Becker-Bender
Tanja Becker-Bender (born 11 February 1978) is a German violinist. She lives in Berlin and Hamburg. Musical career Born in Stuttgart, Becker-Bender has performed since age of eleven as a soloist on international stages under the baton of Kurt Masur, Gerd Albrecht, Hubert Soudant and Fabio Luisi with renowned orchestras, such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. As a chamber musician she appeared in festivals together with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Pergamenschikow and Arnold Steinhardt. Becker-Bender won prizes and awards in national and international competitions such as in Geneva (Switzerland, CIEM), Tokyo (Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award), Belgium (Concours International de Musique de Chimay), Gorizia (Italy, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer), Genoa (Italy, Premio Nicolò Paganini), Greensboro (North Carolina, Eastern Music Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Beaver
Martin Beaver (born 10 November 1967) is a Canadian violinist best known as first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet. Beaver joined the Tokyo String Quartet as its first violinist in 2002 and remained until they disbanded in 2013. As a part of the Tokyo String Quartet, he played the ''Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue'' violin (circa 1727) on loan from the Nippon Foundation, part of the Paganini Quartet collection of instruments made by Antonio Stradivari. He currently performs on a violin made by the luthier Nicola Bergonzi. Now on faculty at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, he remains active in both chamber music and as a soloist, and established the Montrose Trio with pianist Jon Kimura Parker and cellist Clive Greensmith. Early life Martin Beaver was born in Winnipeg, and raised in Hamilton, Canada. His early violin teachers include Claude Letourneau and Carlisle Wilson. Subsequently, he studied violin with Victor Danchenko at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Båtnes
Elise Båtnes (born 1971) is a Norwegian violinist. Since 2006, she has been leader of the Oslo Philharmonic orchestra. Biography Born on 24 June 1971 in Trondheim, Båtnes started playing the violin at the age of four. Four years later she appeared for the first time as a soloist with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. In 1981, when she was ten, she performed in a children's concert with the Oslo Philharmonic, appearing as a soloist a year later. She studied under Dorothy DeLay in the United States, Ruggiero Ricci in Salzburg, David Takeno in London and Arve Tellefsen in Oslo. She also received guidance from Mariss Jansons of the Oslo Philharmonic. She has played as a soloist with orchestras in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Belgian, participating in broadcasts from these countries as well as from Finland, Spain and the United States. Båtnes first joined the Oslo Philharmonic when she was 19, returning as leader in 2006. Her most memorable concert with the orchestra was when sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Batiashvili
Elisabeth Batiashvili ( ka, ელისაბედ ბათიაშვილი; born 7 March 1979), professionally known as Lisa Batiashvili, is a prominent Georgia (country), Georgian violinist active across Europe and the United States. A former New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence, she is acclaimed for her "natural elegance, silky sound and the meticulous grace of her articulation". Batiashvili makes frequent appearances at high-profile international events; she was the violin soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize concert. Early life and education Batiashvili was born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to a violinist father and a pianist mother. She began learning violin with her father from age four. The family left Georgia in 1991 when she was 12 years old, and settled in Germany. She later studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Mark Lubotsky, her teacher in Hamburg, had been a student of David Oistrakh, for whom Shostakovich wrote his violin concerto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Barreto
Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno (; born 12 February 1944) is a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Huancayo since 2004 and a cardinal since 2018. Biography Barreto was born in Lima, Peru, on 12 February 1944 and entered the Jesuit novitiate there. He studied philosophy at the Jesuit faculty in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and theology in Lima. He was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus on 18 December 1971 and took his final vows as a Jesuit on 3 October 1976. On 21 November 2001, Pope John Paul II named him titular bishop of Acufida and Apostolic Administrator of Jaén in Peru. He was consecrated a bishop on 1 January 2002. On 17 July 2004, John Paul appointed him Archbishop of Huancayo and he was installed there on 5 September. He has headed the Justice and Peace Section of the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM). He has fought the mining industry over its environmental impact on La Oroya. He has been vice president of the Pan-Amazoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barbini
William (Bill) Barbini (born 1947) 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. During his tenure with the NY Philharmonic, Barbini also performed as principal violinist with the Gramercy String Quartet. With Barbini as principal, the Gramercy was commissioned by Pierre Boulez for a number of pre-concert performances at Avery Fisher Hall. While in New York, Barbini also served as concertmaster for the Joffrey Ballet and soloist with the Festival Orchestra at the Norwalk Performing Arts Festival. Chamber music has been a focus of Barbini's career. He has performed with the Philharmonia Quartet, Balihry Piano Trio, San Francisco Contemporary Players and Music Now. In 1983, Barbini was appointed concertmaster of the Sacramento Symphony, and in 1984 he joined the Sacramento State University music department. Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristóf Baráti
Kristóf Baráti (born 1979) is a Hungarian classical violinist. Early life Baráti was born into a musical family in Budapest in 1979. His mother played the violin and his father was a cellist. He received his first violin instruction from his mother and continued his studies with Vilmos Tátrai, the founder of the famous Tátrai Quartet. Throughout much of his childhood, Baráti lived in Venezuela, where he began performing with leading orchestras from the age of eight. When he was eleven, he performed a recital at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, France. Baráti later returned to Hungary to study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and, in 1996, he began studying in Paris with Professor Eduard Wulfson. Wulfson, who had been a student of Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, and Henryk Szeryng, passed on to Baráti the standards which his own teachers had embodied. Performance career Baráti has won many major prizes at international competitions. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodja Balžalorsky
Volodja Balžalorsky (born 1956) is a Slovenian violinist. He is Professor of Violin at the Music Academy at University of Ljubljana. His pupils, including Lana Trotovšek, have won many national and international first prizes and awards. He regularly gives Master Classes in conjunction with his performances internationally. Life He studied music at the Cologne University of Music, Germany, with Igor Ozim; at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, in Moscow, with Galina Barinova; and at the University of Vienna, Austria, with the famous Czech violinist, Josef Suk; completing his studies with Josef Klima, at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he received his post graduate degree. Career He has performed in many international music festivals and concert series throughout Europe, and North America and has recorded for radio stations in Slovenia, Italy, Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia and in United States. Volodja Balžalorsky has performed notably with the Slovenian Philharmoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Balanas
Kristīne Balanas (born May 8, 1990) is a Latvian violinist who is a laureate of many international violin competitions. Early life and education Balanas received her first violin lessons at the age of seven with Olita Meldere. She later attended the Emīls Dārziņš Specialist Music School and studied with Romans Šnē. Balanas studied with Professor György Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music in London for her undergraduate degree, and graduated with a Master of Arts in 2014. From 2014 to 2015, she was an Artist-in-Residence at Buckingham University. Career Balanas has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, and the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed as a soloist in the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, London Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, EUYO Symphony Orchestra, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Oaks Baker
Jenny Oaks Baker (born Jenny June Oaks; May 27, 1975) is a Grammy nominated American violinist and former member of the National Symphony Orchestra. She has released eighteen studio albums, several of which have topped or nearly topped ''Billboard'' charts. Music career Baker began playing the violin at age four, and made her solo orchestral debut in 1983 at the age of eight. She also won several competition awards in her youth. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, 1997) and a Master of Music degree from Juilliard School (New York City, 1999). With Shadow Mountain Records, she has released twelve albums. Her first album, ''On Wings of Song'' (1998), was awarded two Pearl Awards from the . Her album, '' Wish Upon a Star: A Tribute to the Music of Walt Disney'', earned a nomination at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental Album. Several of her albums have listed on Billboard charts, including her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
