Isabelle Flory (born 1951)The Strad
("5th prize, Isabelle Flory, French, born 1951") is a French

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ist. She was a student of

Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name: * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor ** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England ** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to the v ...

, Joseph Gingold, and

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Polish ...

. She has won numerous prizes, including the Jacques Thibaud International competition in 1971 and the Carl Flesch International competition in 1977. She studied three years in

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and two years at the

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. Back in

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, she founded the Ensemble Arpeggione and, six years later, the Arpeggione Quartet.The Strad
Vol. 104 ("Isabelle Flory, now leader of the successful Arpeggione Quartet, actually studied with Calvet long ago, but there was no question of her playing quartets then. Instead, she went to Moscow to study with Kogan ...")

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