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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 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 (1 ...
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Rochelle Abramson Rochelle Abramson is a violinist in Los Angeles, California. She is a first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic, commonly referred to as the LA Phil, is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, Californ ...
* Irene Abrigo (born 1988) *
Salvatore Accardo Salvatore Accardo (; Knight Grand Cross born 26 September 1941 in Turin, northern Italy) is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his interpretations of the works of Niccolò Paganini. Accardo owns one Stradivarius violin, the "Ha ...
(born 1941) *
Diana Adamyan Diana Adamyan (born 2000) is an Armenian violinist who won the first prize in the Senior Division of the Menuhin International Competition in 2018. In 2020, she also won the Khachaturian Violin Competition which was held online due the COVID-19 ...
(born 2000) *
Ayke Agus Ayke Agus (born 1949) is an Indonesian classical violinist and pianist, known primarily through her longtime collaboration with the violinist Jascha Heifetz. She is one of the rare classical music performers who has performed as a soloist accompa ...
(born 1949) *
Ruben Aharonyan Ruben Mikaeli Aharonian or Aharonyan ( hy, Ռուբեն Ահարոնյան; born 1947, Riga, Latvia) is an Armenian classical violinist. He has won second prize at the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1974 ...
(born 1947) *
Sanford Allen Sanford Allen (born 1939) is an American classical violinist. At the age of 10, he began studying violin at the Juilliard School of Music and continued at the Mannes School of Music under Vera Fonaroff. He was the first African-American regular me ...
(born 1939) *
Levon Ambartsumian Levon Ambartsumian (russian: Лево́н Амбарцумя́н; hy, Լևոն Համբարձումյան; born 1955) is an Armenian classical violinist and conductor. Levon Ambartsumian currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, United States ...
(born 1955) *
Pierre Amoyal Pierre Amoyal (born 22 June 1949 in Paris) is a French violinist and is the artistic director of the Conservatory of Lausanne. He owns the "Kochanski" Stradivarius of 1717. It was stolen from him in 1987 and recovered in 1991. Life and car ...
(born 1949) *
Božena Angelova Božena Angelova (born 1981 Maribor) is a Slovenian violinist. She has recorded for the Slovenian Broadcasting Company and has performed as a soloist with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Carinthian symphony orchestra, amongst others. ...
(born 1981) *
Adele Anthony Adele Anthony (born 1 October 1970) is an Australian-American violinist. In 1984, at age 13, she was the youngest winner of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition; she later won other international competitions and studied in New York. She ...
(born 1970) *
Gilles Apap Gilles Apap (born 21 May 1963) is a French classical violinist. Born in Béjaïa, Algeria, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won first prize in the contemporary music category at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. He served as concertmaster ...
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Irvine Arditti Irvine Arditti (born 8 February 1953) is a British violinist, as well as the leader and founder of the Arditti Quartet. Biography Arditti attended the Central Foundation Boys' School in London before continuing his studies at the Royal Academy ...
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Cecylia Arzewski Cecylia Arzewski (born March 31, 1948) is a Polish violinist. Early life and education Cecylia Arzewski was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Kraków, Poland. Both of her parents, Bronislawa and Stanislaw Arzewski, and her brother Michael Arzews ...
(born 1948) *
Shmuel Ashkenasi Shmuel Ashkenasi ( he, שמואל אשכנזי; born January 11, 1941) 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 p ...
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Christina Åstrand Christina Åstrand (born 6 June 1969) is a Danish violinist. When she was just 22, she became leader of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, a position she still holds today. Biography Born on 6 June 1969 in Skanderborg, Åstrand was the da ...
(born 1969) *
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 Wro ...
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Daniel Austrich Daniel Austrich (born 1984) is a Russian classical musician, who is active as a conductor, violinist, violist, and a pedagogue. Early life and education Austrich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied with Alla Aranovskaya in St.Petersbur ...
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Felix Ayo Felix Ayo Losada (born July 1, 1933, Sestao, Spain) is a Spanish born, naturalised Italian, violinist. He is renowned as a founder of the Italian ensemble I Musici; as an internationally renowned violinist, who is often a soloist, and is a ...
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Alena Baeva Alena Baeva (born 1985) (Russian: Алёна Михайловна Баева) is a Luxembourgisch violinist, winner of the First Prize and nine Special Prizes at the XII International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2001, and the First Pri ...
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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 ''Billboar ...
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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 attende ...
(born 1990) *
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 regula ...
(born 1956) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 en ...
(born 1991) *
Lisa Batiashvili Elisabeth Batiashvili ( ka, ელისაბედ ბათიაშვილი; born 7 March 1979), professionally known as Lisa Batiashvili, is a prominent Georgian violinist active across Europe and the United States. A former New York P ...
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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 ap ...
(born 1971) *
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 ...
(born 1967) *
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 Ku ...
(born 1978) *
Corina Belcea Corina Belcea (born 1975) is a Romanian violinist who resides in Basel, Switzerland. Biography She started violin lessons at the age of six. Her teachers in Romania were Radu Bozgan and Ştefan Gheorghiu. In 1991, she took part in the Yehudi Men ...
(born 1975) *
Boris Belkin Boris Davidovich Belkin (russian: Борис Давидович Белкин; born 26 January 1948) is a Soviet-born violin virtuoso. Teachers He was taught by Yuri Yankelevich and Isaac Stern. Early years As a child prodigy he began studying ...
(born 1948) *
Joshua Bell Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He plays the Gibson Stradivarius. Early life and education Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to Shirley Bell, a therapist, and Alan P. Bell, a psycholog ...
(born 1967) *
Noah Bendix-Balgley Noah Bendix-Balgley (born 1984) is an American classical violinist. He is currently First Concertmaster with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He served as concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2014. Biography and career No ...
(born 1984) *
Nicola Benedetti Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti (born 20 July 1987) is an Italian-British classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She w ...
(born 1987) * Yehonatan Berick (born 1968) *
Klara Berkovich Klara Yefimovna Berkovich (née Gordion, born 19 May 1928) is a Soviet and American violinist and master violin teacher who divided her career between the Soviet Union and the United States. Early years Klara Berkovich was born in Odesa, U ...
(born 1928) *
Dmitri Berlinsky Dmitri Berlinsky (russian: Дмитрий Берлинский) is an international solo violinist, chamber musician and a teacher. He took first prize in the Paganini Competition (Italy), and was the winner of the Montreal International Violin Com ...
(born 1968) *
Pavel Berman Pavel Berman is a violinist and conductor of Russian origin, laureate of international competitions. Biography Pavel Berman was born in Moscow. Father — renowned Russian pianist Lazar Berman, mother — pianist Valentina Berman (Sedova). He ...
(born 1970) *
Andrew Bernardi Andrew Bernardi (born 22 April 1965) is an English violinist, educator, festival director and entrepreneur. He lives in the parish of Shipley near Horsham, and has performed with many of the UK's leading orchestras, including Guildford Philharmoni ...
(born 1965) *
Oleg Bezuglov Oleg Vyacheslavovich Bezuglov (Russian: Олег Вячеславович Безуглов; 20 May 1984, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) – is a Russian violinist, chamber musician and teacher, co-founder of the violin and piano duo Class&Jazz. The Honor ...
(born 1984) * Mikhail Bezverkhny (born 1947) *
Ida Bieler Ida Bieler (born 1950 in Virginia) is an American violinist and professor of Violin. Biography Bieler studied under Ruggiero Ricci at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Oscar Shumsky at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, Max Rost ...
(born 1950) * Lea Birringer (born 1986) *
Marat Bisengaliev Marat Bisengaliev ( kk, Marat Sämetūly Bisenğaliev, born 1962 in Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh violinist and conductor of both the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and TuranAlem Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the founding Music Direct ...
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Kolja Blacher Kolja Blacher (born 1963) is a German violin player. He plays the 1730 "Tritton" Stradivarius.Dejan Bogdanović *
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Nikita Arkadievich Boriso-Glebsky (russian: Никита Аркадьевич Борисоглебский, link=no; born 30 August 1985) is a Russian violinist, soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, and winner of international music contes ...
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Benjamin Bowman Benjamin Walter Bowman (born September 20, 1979) is an American-Canadian violinist. The Metropolitan Opera and incoming Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin appointed Bowman as concertmaster as of the 2018-19 season, after a successful one-year t ...
(born 1979) *
Guy Braunstein Guy Braunstein (born 1971) is an Israeli-American conductor and classical violinist. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, he began to study the violin at age seven. In Israel he studied under the guidance of Valeria Blotner and Haim Taub. In the United Stat ...
(born 1971) *
Linda Brava Linda Magdalena Cullberg Lampenius (born 26 February 1970), better known by her maiden name Linda Lampenius and international stage name Linda Brava, is a Finnish people, Finnish Classical music, classical violin, concert violinist. Named as one ...
(born 1970) * Vadim Brodski (born 1950) *
Zakhar Bron Zakhar Bron (russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон ; born 17 December 1947, in Oral, Kazakhstan) is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish, Polish and Romanian descent. His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendolyn ...
(born 1947) *
Bui Cong Duy Bui Cong Duy (born February 2, 1981), is a well-known Vietnamese violinist. He started to play the violin at the age of four under instruction of his father, Professor Dr. Bui Cong Thanh. He won scores of prizes, including the first prize and gol ...
(born 1981) * Oliver Butterworth


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Caroline Campbell Caroline Campbell is an American violinist. She is a soloist and chamber musician who performs and records classical, jazz, film and popular music. Early life Campbell was born in Albany, New York, and grew up in Hawaii, Nevada, and northern ...
(born 1979) *
Robert Canetti Robert Canetti (born 1948) is an Israeli conductor, violinist, and professor. He was born in Haifa, Israel. Education The first violin teacher of Canetti was his father, Jacques Canetti. He also studied with Rami Shevelov, a student of Ivan Ivan ...
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Roberto Cani Roberto Salvatore Cani (born 17 October 1967) is an Italian violinist. Roberto Cani was a prizewinner in the Paganini (Genoa, 1990), Jeunesses Musicales ( Belgrade, 1991), and Courcillon (France, 1991) International Competitions. He also won ho ...
(born 1967) *
Stuart Canin Stuart Canin (born 1926 in New York City) is an American violinist and conductor. On December 30, 1936, at the age of 10, he performed on the Fred Allen radio hour.Alex Walsh, "STUART CANIN: "...An Excellent Violinist." — Harry Truman," Dec. 10, ...
(born 1926) * Marie Cantagrill (born 1979) *
Renaud Capuçon Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist. Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music. Biography Capuçon was born in Chambéry on 27 January 1976. He entered the conservatory in ...
(born 1976) *
Andrés Cárdenes Andrés Cárdenes is a Cuban-born violinist, violist, teacher, conductor, and concertmaster. He has performed and taught in a number of prominent positions, including his current professorship in violin at Carnegie Mellon University School of Musi ...
(born 1957) *
Giuliano Carmignola Giuliano Carmignola (born 7 July 1951, in Treviso) is an Italian violinist. Born in Treviso, he studied with his father, then with Luigi Ferro at the Venice Conservatory and afterwards with Nathan Milstein and Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigi ...
(born 1951) *
Jonathan Carney Jonathan Carney is an American violinist, violist, and conductor. Carney studied at the Juilliard School with Christine Dethier and Ivan Galamian Ivan Alexander Galamian ( hy, Իվան Ղալամեան; April 14, 1981) was an Armenian-Amer ...
(born 1963) *
Zachary Carrettin Zachary Carrettin is an American violinist, violist, conductor, and music educator. Carrettin is currently the Music Drector of Boulder Bach Festival. Education Mr. Carrettin holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from ...
(born 1972) * Charles Martin Castleman (born 1941) *
David Cerone David 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 ...
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Corey Cerovsek Corey Cerovsek (born 24 April 1972) is a Canadian violinist, pianist, and mathematician. At age 12, he was the youngest student to receive a gold medal from the Royal Conservatory of Music. In 1992, Cerovsek was the recipient of the Virginia-Park ...
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David Chan David Chan is an American violinist, conductor, and a concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He is one of the most sought-after violinists of his generation. He is a prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the ...
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Lynn Chang Lynn Chang () (born 1953) 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 ...
(born 1953) *
Sarah Chang Sarah Chang ( ko, 장영주; born Young Joo Chang; December 10, 1980) is a Korean American classical violinist. Recognized as a child prodigy, she first played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989. ...
(born 1980) *
Corinne Chapelle Corinne Chapelle (May 5, 1976 – March 23, 2021) was a French-American violinist. She was born in California, her father was French and her mother Tunisian. She started her violin studies as a two-year-old and gave her first concert one year lat ...
(born 1976) *
Stephanie Chase Stephanie Ann Chase (born ) is an American classical violinist. Life and career Chase was born in Evanston, Illinois. She is the daughter of two musicians, the noted arranger and composer Bruce Chase and violinist Fannie (Paschell) Chase. She ...
(born 1957) *
Anastasia Chebotareva Anastasia Chebotareva (born in Odesa, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest ...
(born 1972) *
Eddy Chen TwoSet Violin is a musical comedy duo consisting of Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen. The pair is best known for their musical comedy on their YouTube channel, which has reached over 3.8 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views ...
(born 1993) * Jiafeng Chen (born 1987) *
Ray Chen Ray Chen (born 6 March 1989) is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Career Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen began ...
(born 1989) *
Robert Chen Robert Chen () is a Taiwanese-born violinist who is the Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He received Bachelor's and Master's of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Car ...
(born 1969) * Stella Chen (born 1992) *
Jennifer Choi Jennifer Choi is a Korean-American violinist based in New York City. Choi graduated from the Juilliard School and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has performed in a variety of settings including solo violin, chamber music, and creative imp ...
(born 1974) * Nikki Chooi (born 1989) *
Timothy Chooi Timothy Chooi is a Canadian–American violinist and University of Ottawa professor of Chinese-Indonesian ethnic background. He won the First Prize at the 2018 International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition and Second Prize at the 2019 Queen ...
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Chloe Chua Chloe Chua (; pinyin: Cài Kēyí) (born 7 January 2007) is a Singaporean violinist. She is the first prize winner in the Junior division of the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists alongside Christian Li in Gene ...
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Ana Chumachenco Ana Chumachenco is an Italian born violinist of Argentinian, Ukrainian, and German descent. Biography Ana Chumachenco was born in Padova, Italy, on 23 June 1945. From the age of four, Chumachenco practiced violin under the guidance of her fathe ...
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Kyung-wha Chung Kyung Wha Chung (born 26 March 1948) is a South Korean violinist. Early years and education Kyung Wha Chung was born in Seoul as the middle of the seven children in her family. Her father was an exporter, and her mother ran a restaurant. She b ...
(born 1948) *
Fanny Clamagirand Fanny Clamagirand (born 1984) is a French classical violinist. Biography and Career Born in 1984, Clamagirand started playing the violin at the age of seven. She was taught by L. Kolos, before joining J.J. Kantorow's postgraduate course at the C ...
(born 1984) * Jeremy Cushman (born 1990)


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Alexandre Da Costa Alexandre Da Costa is a Canadian concert violinist and conductor from Montreal, Quebec. He is the artistic director of the ''Orchestre Symphonique De Longueuil''. Education Da Costa has a bachelor's degree in performance (piano) from the Facul ...
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John Dalley John Dalley (born 3 March 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American violinist. He was raised in a musical family. His father was an orchestra conductor, violinist, composer, instrumental teacher, and music educator. His mother, from Bloomington, ...
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Carlos Damas Carlos Damas (born 1973) is a leading Portugal, Portuguese classical violinist and recording artist foDux RecordsRobert Davidovici (born 1946) *
Beverley Davison Beverley Davison is a British violin virtuoso, currently fronting an act she founded called Classical Cabaret: Hot Strings (ensemble) or "Classical Cabaret Duo" (solo with piano).Mowbray, Christopher (1993)With strings, but no hang-ups: Christ ...
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Andrew Dawes Andrew Dawes (February 7, 1940 – October 30, 2022) was a Canadian violinist. He was known for his performances with the Orford String Quartet. Early life and education Dawes was born in High River, Alberta.Curtin Call: A Photographer's Cand ...
(born 1940) * Brett Deubner (born 1968) * Lindsay Deutsch (born 1984) *
Alma Deutscher Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist and violinist. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. At seven, she completed the short opera, ''The Sweeper of Dreams''. Ag ...
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Glenn Dicterow Glenn Dicterow (born December 23, 1948), is an American violinist and former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music where he holds the Jascha ...
(born 1948) *
Sergei Dogadin Sergei Dogadin (born September 1988) is a Russian violinist. Born in a musical family, Dogadin began studying the violin at the age of six. He made his major debut in 2002 with Vasily Petrenko and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and w ...
(born 1988) *
Angèle Dubeau Angèle Dubeau, (born 24 March 1962) is a Canadian classical violinist. She has devoted a large part of her career to making classical music accessible to a wide audience, but also frequently plays works by contemporary composers. Early life ...
(born 1962) *
Augustin Dumay Augustin Dumay (born 17 January 1949) is a French violinist and conductor from Paris. Biography Dumay was invited as a soloist to appear with Yo-Yo Ma in Paris by Herbert von Karajan. Later on, he performed Béla Bartók's ''Second Concerto'' wit ...
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Veronika Eberle Veronika Eberle (born 26 December 1988) is a German violinist. Veronika Eberle has established a reputation as one of the most promising violin talents to emerge from Germany in recent years. Highlights among future concerto appearances include ...
(born 1988) *
Renate Eggebrecht Renate Eggebrecht (August 12, 1944 – January 8, 2023) was a German violinist and record producer. Music training Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her first music lessons from her mother, before she was four ye ...
(born 1944) *
James Ehnes James Ehnes, (born January 27, 1976) is a Canadian concert violinist and violist. Life and career Ehnes was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Alan Ehnes, long time trumpet professor at Brandon University (Canada), and Barbara Withey Ehnes, fo ...
(born 1976) *
Ayla Erduran Ayla Erduran (born 22 September 1934, Istanbul) is a Turkish violinist. A student of Karl Berger she performed her first recital when she was 10 years old. She then went on to study at the Paris International Conservatory from 1946 to 1951 unde ...
(born 1934) *
Vesko Eschkenazy Vesko Eschkenazy (born 1970) is a violinist who serves as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's concertmaster. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Biography Born into a Bulgarian Jewish family in 1970, Vesko Panteleev Eschkenazy became a child prodigy in ...
(born 1970) * Ralph Evans (born 1953)


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* Luca Fanfoni (born 1964) *
Ralph Farris Ralph Farris (born Ralph Howard Farris, Jr., 1970) is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor, best known as a founding member and artistic director of the ensemble ETHEL. Farris is an electric string player with ...
(born 1970) *
Isabelle Faust Isabelle Faust (born 19 March 1972) is a German violinist who has worked internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She received multiple awards. Life and career Faust was born in Esslingen on 12 March 1972. She received her first vi ...
(born 1972) *
Maxim Fedotov Maxim Viktorovich Fedotov (born 24 July 1961) is a Russian violinist and conductor, People's Artist of Russia, son of the conductor Viktor Fedotov. Fedotov studied at the Special Music School in Leningrad and then at the Moscow Conservatory. As we ...
(born 1961) *
Liza Ferschtman Liza Ferschtman (born 1979) is a Dutch classical violinist who appears internationally, both as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music. She received the Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2006 and has directed the since 2007. Education Ferscht ...
(born 1979) *
Julia Fischer Julia Fischer (born 15 June 1983) is a German classical violinist and pianist.Annar Follesø Annar Follesø (born December 29, 1972) is a Norwegian violinist. Follesø studied with Soon-Mi Chung and Stephan Barratt-Due at the Barratt Due Music Institute, and with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University. In 1998 he won the violin prize at ...
(born 1972) *
Cyrus Forough Cyrus Forough ( Persian: سیروس فروغ (Persian: علی فروغ) is a Persian-American concert violinist and professor. Forough was born in Tehran and began violin studies at age five with his mother, a graduate of the Brussels Royal Conse ...
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Vilde Frang Vilde Frang Bjærke (born 19 August 1986) is a Norwegian classical violinist. Early life and education Born in Oslo, Norway, Frang began playing the violin by the Suzuki method at the age of four. In the years 1993–2002 she studied with S ...
(born 1986) *
Pamela Frank Pamela Frank (born June 20, 1967) is an American violinist, with an active international career across a varied range of performing activity. Her musicianship was recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given t ...
(born 1967) *
Jennifer Frautschi Jennifer Frautschi (; born 1973) is an American violinist. A recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she is currently Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. She plays a 1722 Antonio Stradivari violin known as the " ex-Cadiz," on loan f ...
(born 1973) *
Miriam Fried Miriam Fried (born 9 September 1946) is a Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist and pedagogue. Biography Miriam Fried was born in Satu Mare, Romania but moved with her family to Israel when she was aged 2. Her family settled in Herzliya. H ...
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Rodney Friend Rodney Friend MBE (born in Bradford, 1939) is an English violinist. Born in Bradford, Friend's father was a local tailor. At the age of 12 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music after Sir Reginald Thatcher, the then principal of the ...
(born 1939) *
David Frühwirth David Frühwirth (born 15 June 1974) is an Austrian classical violinist. He has played internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, with a focus on contemporary music which he also recorded. He has given international master classes. Life a ...
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Taras Gabora Taras (Daniel) Gabora is a violinist and prominent violin teacher. He was born in Yellow Creek, Saskatchewan, 23 Apr 1932. Early life He studied at the University of Manitoba with Richard Seaborn, at the Paris Conservatory 1952–3 with René Ben ...
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Xiang Gao Xiang Gao is a Chinese violinist. He is cited by ''The New York Times'' as "a rare and soulful virtuoso". He has also been a featured soloist performing for world leaders including two U.S. Presidents, three Chinese Presidents, and Juan Carlos I. ...
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Ilian Gârnet Ilian Gârnet is a Moldovan violinist. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and grew up in Moldova. His mother is a pianist, and his father is a choreographer. First studying at the Chisinau Academy with B. Dubosarsky, he later relocated to F ...
(born 1983) *
David Garrett David Christian Bongartz (born 4 September 1980), known by his stage name David Garrett, is a German classical and crossover violinist and recording artist. Early life When Garrett was four years old his father purchased a violin for his ol ...
(born 1980) *
Saschko Gawriloff Saschko Gawriloff (born October 20, 1929) is a German violinist and violin teacher of Bulgarian descent. Life Gawriloff was born in Leipzig and received his first violin lessons from his father Yordan Gavriloff, who was a violinist in the Leipz ...
(born 1929) * Joseph Genualdi *
Thelma Given Thelma is a female given name. It was popularized by Victorian writer Marie Corelli who gave the name to the title character of her 1887 novel ''Thelma''. It may be related to a Greek word meaning "will, volition" see ''thelema''). Note that alth ...
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Jack Glatzer Jacob Joseph (Jack) 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. Glatzer specializes ...
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Vadim Gluzman Vadim Gluzman (Вадим Михайлович Глузман, born 1973) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli classical violinist. Born in the former Soviet Union, Vadim Gluzman spent most of his childhood in Riga, Latvia. His father is a conductor and cl ...
(born 1973) * Ioana Cristina Goicea (born 1992) *
Malcolm Goldstein Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Canadian 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 composit ...
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Gottfried von der Goltz Gottfried von der Goltz (born 1 June 1964 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. Born into the ancient Brandenburgish Goltz family, Gottfried was a great-grandson of the former commande ...
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Karen Gomyo Karen Gomyo is a classical violinist. Biography Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she started violin lessons at 5 years old. At the age of 10, she moved to New York City to study at the Juill ...
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Midori Gotō , who performs under the mononym A mononym is a name composed of only one word. An individual who is known and addressed by a mononym is a mononymous person. In some cases, a mononym selected by an individual may have originally been from a ...
(born 1971) * Ryu Goto (born 1988) *
Clio Gould Clio Gould is an English violinist, professor, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Gould has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including the London Sinfonietta, the London Philhar ...
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Philippe Graffin Philippe Graffin (born 1964 in Romilly-sur-Seine) is a French violinist The following lists of violinists are available: * List of classical violinists, notable violinists from the baroque era onwards * List of contemporary classical violinis ...
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Endre Granat Endre Granat (born August 3, 1937) is an American violinist. He is regarded as the most recorded violinist and concertmaster working in the studios today. Early life and education Granat studied at the Franz Liszt Academy, Jacobs School of ...
(born 1937) * Salvatore Greco (born 1964) *
David Grimal David Grimal (born 1973) is a French violinist. He started to play the violin at the age of five. He won First Prize in violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1993. Afterwards he did his postgraduate studies with Régis Pasqui ...
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Tatiana Grindenko Tatiana Grindenko (russian: Татьяна Тихоновна Гринденко; born 1946) is a Russian violinist and Meritorious Artist who graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and then became an assistant to Yuri Yankelevich. She is a fou ...
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Ilya Gringolts Ilya Gringolts (russian: Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Гринго́льц ''Il′já Aleksándrovič Gringól′c'') born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is a Russian violinist and composer. Gringolts studied violin in S ...
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Ilya Grubert Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/Jah ...
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Igor Gruppman Igor Gruppman (born July 4, 1956) is a Ukrainian violinist and conductor. He is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, a position he has held since 2003. In May 2009, Igor Gruppman was appointed by Vale ...
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Vijay Gupta Robert Vijay Gupta (born 1987) is a violinist, and advocate for social justice. He is a 2018 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Early life (Robert) Vijay Gupta was born in 1987 and grew up in the mid- Hudson Valley of New York, near ...
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Augustin Hadelich Augustin Hadelich (born April 4, 1984) is an Italian-German-American Grammy-winning classical violinist. Biography Early life and education Augustin Hadelich was born in Cecina, Italy, to German parents. His two older brothers were already p ...
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Viviane Hagner Viviane Hagner is a German violinist. She was born in Munich, Germany in 1977 (but grew up in Berlin), to a German father and Korean mother. She is sister to Nicole Hagner, the pianist. Hagner started studying the piano at age 3 before switc ...
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Hilary Hahn Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979) is an American violinist. She has performed throughout the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors and as a recitalist. She is an avid supporter of contemporary classical music, and several c ...
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Kelly Hall-Tompkins Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a professional violinist and the founder of Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, a program that lifts the spirits of homeless New Yorkers through live classical music recitals. She has performed as "The Fiddler", as a violin so ...
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Ben Hancox Ben Hancox is an English violinist 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, b ...
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Chloë Hanslip Chloë Elise Hanslip (born 28 September 1987) is a British classical violinist. Biography Hanslip 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 ...
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Edward W. Hardy Edward W. Hardy (born January 12, 1992) is an American composer, music director, violinist and violist. He is known as the composer, co-conceiver, music director, and violinist of the Off-Broadway show '' The Woodsman'' and is the owner of '' ...
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Maurice Hasson Maurice Hasson (born 6 July 1934, in France) is a French- Venezuelan violinist. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Line Talluel and Joseph Calvet, winning a First Prize for Violin, "Grand Prix" for chamber music, and the first “Prix d' ...
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Joji Hattori is a Japanese violinist and conductor. Biography Born in Japan but raised in Vienna, Joji Hattori studied violin at the Vienna Academy of Music and sociology at Oxford University, and furthered his violin studies with violinists Yehudi Menuhin ...
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Moné Hattori Moné Hattori (服部 百音, ''Hattori Mone,'' born September 14, 1999) is a Japanese violinist. She was the first prize winner of the 11th Lipinski & Wieniawski Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin, Poland. She was also the first prize ...
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Ziyu He Ziyu He (; born April 24, 1999) is a Chinese violinist. In 2011, he moved to Salzburg, Austria. At the age of 15, he won the 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians. He also won the Menuhin Competition in 2016. Early life Ziyu He was born in 1999 in ...
(born 1999) * Feargus Hetherington (born 1979) *
Daniel Heifetz Daniel Alan Heifetz (born November 20, 1948) is an American concert violinist and pedagogue best known as the Founder of the Heifetz International Music Institute. His career has been focused on education and the art of communication through pe ...
(born 1948) * Philippe Honoré (born 1967) *
Daniel Hope Daniel Hope (born 17 August 1973, Durban, South Africa) is a European classical violinist. Early life and education Hope was born in Durban, South Africa, and is of Irish and Jewish German descent, his maternal grandparents, formerly from Be ...
(born 1974) *
Bella Hristova Bella Hristova (born 28 December 1985) is a Bulgarian-American violinist. Early life Hristova was born in Pleven, Bulgaria to Russian and Bulgarian parents. She began her studies on the violin at the age of six. By the age of twelve, she enrolled ...
(born 1985) * Hu Kun (born 1963) *
Hu Nai-yuan Hu Nai-yuan (, born 1961 at Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 1985 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Life and career Hu Nai-yuan started to study the violin at the age of 5. By the age of 8, he ...
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Frank Huang Frank Xin Huang (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. Since 2015 he has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Previous to his position in New York, Huang was the first violinist of the Ying Quar ...
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Sirena Huang Sirena Huang (born May 18, 1994) is an American concert violinist. She has received numerous awards, including First Prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, First Prize at the Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition ...
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Václav Hudeček Václav Hudeček (born June 7, 1952 in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech violinist. A former student of David Oistrakh, Hudeček's records have sold many copies in the Czech Republic, especially a 1992 recording of Vivald ...
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Fenella Humphreys Fenella Humphreys (born ) is a British classical violinist. Career and education She studied under Sidney Griller, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Ida Bieler and David Takeno at the Purcell School, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Robert-Schu ...


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Alina Ibragimova Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova (russian: link=no, Али́на Рина́товна Ибраги́мова; ba, Алина Ринат ҡыҙы Ибраһимова born 28 September 1985) is a Russian-British violinist. Early life and education ...
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Aleksey Igudesman Aleksey Mikhailovich Igudesman (russian: Алексей Михайлович Игу́десман, link=no; born 22 February 1973) is a Russian-German violinist, composer, conductor, comedian and actor. He performs in the comedy-musical duo Igude ...
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Petteri Iivonen Petteri Iivonen (born 14 August 1987) is a Finnish violinist. He has studied at the Sibelius Academy, University of Southern California and the Tel Aviv University with Hagai Shaham. In 2005 he won the National Violin Competition in Kuopio, Fin ...
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Judith Ingolfsson Judith Ingolfsson (born in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a violinist. Biography The New York Times characterized her playing as producing “both fireworks and a singing tone,” the Washington Post praised the “finely honed bowing and stylistic ...
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Liana Isakadze Liana Isakadze ( ka, ლიანა ისაკაძე, russian: Лиана Александровна Исакадзе, german: Liana Isakadse) (born August 2, 1946) is a Georgian violinist. Life Born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Sovi ...
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Stefan Jackiw Stefan Jackiw (; born 1985) is an American classical violinist. Biography Stefan Jackiw was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents are both prominent physics professors, now retired with emeritus status. His mother, So-Young Pi, was the daugh ...
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Janine Jansen Janine Jansen (born 7 January 1978) is a Dutch violinist and violist. Early life and education Jansen was born in Soest in the Netherlands and came from a musical family. Her father plays organ, harpsichord and piano; from 1987 to mid-2011 h ...
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Dylana Jenson Dylana Jenson (born May 14, 1961, in Los Angeles, California) is an American concert violinist and violin teacher. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her husband, conductor-cellist David Lockington, music director laureate of the Grand Ra ...
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Leila Josefowicz Leila Bronia Josefowicz ( ; born October 20, 1977) is an American-Canadian classical violinist. Biography Josefowicz was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sta ...
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Ilya Kaler Ilya Kaler (born June 2, 1963) is a Russian-born violinist. Born and educated in Moscow, Kaler is the only person to have won Gold Medals at all three of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1986); the Sibelius (Helsinki, 1985); ...
(born 1963) *
Kam Ning Kam Ning () is a violinist and daughter of the violinist-composer Kam Kee Yong (甘琦勇), and grandchild of Kam Beng Soo and Ooi Kooi Aun. Born in Singapore in 1975, she was given violin lessons at the age of six by the elder Kam, and had her ...
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Mayuko Kamio Mayuko Kamio (神尾 真由子, born June 12, 1986, in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese violinist. Biography Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater (HMT) in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius ...
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Koh Gabriel Kameda Koh Gabriel Kameda (Japanese: 亀田 光; born January 14, 1975) is a German and Japanese concert violinist and violin teacher. Early life Koh Gabriel Kameda was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, the son of a German woman, Margarita and a ...
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Mayuko Kamio Mayuko Kamio (神尾 真由子, born June 12, 1986, in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese violinist. Biography Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater (HMT) in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius ...
(born 1986) *
Suna Kan Suna may refer to: People * Suuna I of Buganda, king of Buganda until 1609 * Suna II of Buganda, king of Buganda from 1836 until 1856 * Suna Kan (born 1936), Turkish violinist of classical music * Suna Kıraç (1941–2020), member of the Turkish ...
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Clara-Jumi Kang Clara-Jumi Kang (, born in Mannheim, Germany on 10 June 1987) is a South Korean-German classical violinist. She won the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2010 with five additional prizes. Korean newspaper ''Dong-A Times'' listed ...
(born 1987) *
Dong-Suk Kang Dong-Suk Kang (born April 28, 1954) is a South Korean violinist. Biography Kang was born in Seoul, and 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 Iva ...
(born 1954) *
Hyo Kang In Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, and Daoist ethics, filial piety (, ''xiào'') (Latin: pietas) is a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors. The Confucian ''Classic of Filial Piety'', thought to be written around the late W ...
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Judy Kang Judy Kang (born July 13, 1979) is a Canadian violinist, model, producer, singer, and composer. Born in Canada to a single mother, she began playing the violin at four years of age in her native Edmonton, Alberta, and has since toured worldwide as s ...
(born 1979) * Paul Kantor (born 1955) *
Jean-Jacques Kantorow Jean-Jacques Kantorow (born 3 October 1945) is a French violinist and conductor. His son is the pianist Alexandre Kantorow. Biography Kantorow was born in Cannes, France, into a family of Russian-Jewish origin. From the age of 13 he studied a ...
(born 1945) *
Lewis Kaplan Lewis Kaplan (born November 10, 1933) is an American violinist, and pedagogue. He is a senior professor in violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School and has been on the faculty at Mannes School of Music since 1987, both located in New Yor ...
(born 1933) * Mark Kaplan (born 1953) *
Daishin Kashimoto Daishin Kashimoto (樫本 大進; ''Kashimoto Daishin''; born 27 March 1979) is a Japanese classical violinist. Since 2009, he has been the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. Kashimoto is fluent in speaking and writing in Japanese, ...
(born 1979) *
Ani Kavafian Ani Kavafian ( hy, Անի Գավաֆեան, born May 10, 1948, Istanbul) is a classical violinist and professor at the Yale School of Music. Early life and education Born in Istanbul of Armenian heritage, Ani Kavafian began piano lessons at t ...
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Ida Kavafian Ida Kavafian ( hy, Այտա Գավաֆեան) (born October 29, 1952 in Istanbul) is an American classical violinist and violist. Biography Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began ...
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Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos ( el, Λεωνίδας Καβάκος; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and I ...
(born 1967) *
Tamaki Kawakubo (born October 10, 1979) is a Japanese-American violinist. A recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she won the Silver Medal at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition and the First Prize at the 2001 Sarasate International Violin Competi ...
(born 1979) * Yōsuke Kawasaki (born 1977) * Gaik Kazazian (born 1982) *
Barnabás Kelemen Introduction Barnabás Kelemen has established himself as one of the leading and most versatile artist of his generation. An artist of “innate musicality” with a technical execution that belongs “only to the greatest” (The Guardian) ...
(born 1978) * András Keller (born 1960) *
Nigel Kennedy Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956) is an English violinist and violist. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and he has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres. Early life and background Kenn ...
(born 1956) *
Alexander Kerr Alexander John Henry Kerr (2 December 1892 – 4 December 1964) was an English marine engineer and wholesale newsagent. He is best known for his service in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, for which he was awarded the Si ...
(born 1970) * Sergey Khachatryan (born 1985) * Nadir Khashimov (born 1990) *
Olga Kholodnaya Olga Kholodnaya (Russian: Ольга Холодная) is a Russian violinist, composer, arranger and producer, born in Cheboksary, in the Soviet Union and based in Berlin, Germany. Biography Born in Cheboksary, the capital of Chuvashia ex-So ...
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Benny Kim Benny Kim (born 14 August 1962, Urbana, Illinois, USA) is an American violinist of Korean ancestry. One of three sons of Hei Chu Kim and Hyung Ja Kim, his brother Eric Kim is a cellist. Kim's early teachers included Doris Preucil and Almita Vamos ...
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Bomsori Kim Bomsori Kim (, born December 13, 1989) is a South Korean classical violinist. She performs as a recitalist and as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors. As a violinist, Bomsori has won prizes at ten international violin competiti ...
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Kim Chee-yun Kim Chee Yun (born 1970) is a violinist from Seoul, South Korea. Her professional name is "Chee-Yun". Chee-Yun performed in Korea at the age of 13. She studied at the Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, and Felix Galimir. She won th ...
(born 1970) *
Chin Kim Chin Kim (born 1957) is a Korean-born American classical violinist, largely educated in the United States through the Juilliard School, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Activities Chin Kim performs extensively throughout the North America, Euro ...
(born 1957) * David Kim (born 1963) *
Dennis Kim Dennis Kim (born 1975) is a Canadian violinist born in Seoul, South Korea. He currently serves as the Concertmaster of the Pacific Symphony in Orange County, Early life Raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Kim first studied violin with Victor Da ...
(born 1975) * Kim Kyung-Jun (born 1987) *
Soovin Kim Soovin Kim (born 1976) is a Korean American violinist. Early life Kim was born in Iowa City, Iowa on April 10, 1976 to South Korean parents who had met and married in Korea, then moved to the U.S. together. When Kim was 2, his family moved to B ...
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Mari Kimura (; born 1962) is a Japanese violinist and composer best known for her use of subharmonics, which, achieved through special bowing techniques, allow pitches below the instrument's normal range. She is credited with "introducing" the use of violi ...
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Rudolf Koelman Rudolf Koelman (born 1959 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch violinist and is professor for violin at the ''Zürcher Hochschule der Künste'' (ZHdK) in Switzerland. Biography Koelman studied the violin with Jan Bor and Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam. From ...
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Pavel Kogan Pavel Kogan is the name of: * Pavel Kogan (poet) (1918–1942), Soviet poet *Pavel Kogan (conductor) Pavel Leonidovich Kogan (Russian: Павел Леонидович Коган; born 6 June 1952 in Moscow) is a Russian violinist and conductor w ...
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Jennifer Koh Jennifer Koh (born 1976) is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Life and career Koh earned a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College, as well as a Performance Diploma from the attached Oberlin Conserv ...
(born 1976) *
Katalin Kokas Katalin Kokas (born 22 November 1978 in Pécs) is a Hungarian violinist and violist. Kokas has performed with orchestras including the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and Taiwan Philharmonic. She has studied at the Conserv ...
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Rachel Kolly d'Alba Rachel Kolly d'Alba (born 21 May 1981 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss violinist. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of five. Early life Kolly d'Alba took her first violin and piano lessons at the age of ...
(born 1981) *
Patricia Kopatchinskaja Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born March 1977) is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist. Biography Early life Kopatchinskaja was born in Chișinău, in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Moldova). She comes from a family of musicians. ...
(born 1977) *
Mikhail Kopelman Mikhail Kopelman is a Russian-American violinist. He was born in 1947 in Uzhhorod and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with professors Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich. In 1973, he was awarded 2nd prize in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competiti ...
(born 1947) *
Laurent Korcia Laurent Korcia (born 1964) is a French violinist who studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. After receiving a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire, he won the Paganini Competition in Genoa, a Grand Prix at the Jacques ...
(born 1964) *
Henning Kraggerud Henning Kraggerud (born 23 June 1973) is a Norwegian musician and composer. Career Kraggerud was born in Oslo. He studied with Camilla Wicks, Emanuel Hurwitz, and Stephan Barratt-Due, before embarking on a career that has brought solo appeara ...
(born 1973) *
Anna Katharina Kränzlein Anna Katharina Kränzlein, also known as Anna Katharina, (born 7 November 1980 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) is a German violinist. She is most known for her quick and varied technique. She is the youngest founding member of Medieval folk rock/ ...
(born 1980) *
Julia Krasko Julia Krasko ( Russian: ''Юлия Красько''; born 6 April 1971, in Moscow, Russia) is a violinist and a professor. Biography Julia Krasko was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Grigory Krasko, was a concertmaster of the Mosco ...
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Gidon Kremer Gidon Kremer ( lv, Gidons Krēmers; born 27 February 1947) is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica. Life and career Gidon Kremer was born in Riga. His father was Jewish and had survived the Holo ...
(born 1948) * Sergei Krylov (born 1970) *
Oleh Krysa Oleh may refer to: * Oleh, Delta * Common Ukrainian male name, see also Oleg * A Jew immigrating to Israel (plural of oleh is olim) See also * Oleg (disambiguation) Oleg is a Slavic masculine given name. Oleg may also refer to * Oleg (dance) ...
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Erzhan Kulibaev Erzhan Kulibaev ( kk, Erjan Qulybaev; born 21 September 1986) is a Spanish violinist of Kazakh origin. Education Kulibaev began his formal musical education in 1995 at the Republican Special Music School for Talented Children of Kulyash Baiseito ...
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Konstanty Andrzej Kulka Konstanty Andrzej Kulka (born 5 March 1947) is a Polish violinist, recording artist, and professor of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw since 1994, also heading the Institute of String Instruments there. Kulka graduated with honors ...
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Boris Kuschnir Boris Kuschnir (born 1948) is a Ukrainian-born Austrian violinist and academic. Background and early life Born in Kyiv in 1948, he studied violin with at the Moscow Conservatoire and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet. ...
(born 1948) * Yevgeny Kutik (born 1985) *
Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto (born 7 October 1976 in Espoo) is a Finnish musician. Biography Kuusisto comes from a musical lineage. His grandfather was a composer and organist, his father is a jazz musician who has composed operas, and his mother is a music ...
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Vladimir Landsman Vladimir Landsman (born 21 December 1941 in Dushanbe) is a Soviet-Canadian violinist and teacher. Biography Vladimir Landsman started to play violin at the age of five. At the age 12, following David Oistrakh's advise, he had entered the Moscow Ce ...
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Jaime Laredo Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941) is a violinist and conductor. He was the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and he began his musical career when he was five years old. Laredo was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In 1948, ...
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Tessa Lark Tessa Lark is an American concert violinist from Kentucky. Early life Lark was born and raised in Richmond, Kentucky. She started violin training at age six through the Suzuki method. Her musical career began performing and recording with her ...
(born 1989) * Susanne Lautenbacher (born 1932) *
Anna Lee Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress, labelled by studios "The British Bombshell". Early life Anna Lee was born Joan Boniface Winnifrith in Ightham, (pronounced 'Item'), Kent, t ...
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Christel Lee Christel Lee (born on October 25, 1990, Bloomington, Indiana, United States) is a Korean American-Canadian violinist. She has studied at the Juilliard School, at the Kronberg Academy, and at the Munich College for Music and Theatre. Lee won f ...
(born 1990) * Ga-Yeon Lee (born 1992) *
Shannon Lee Shannon Emery Lee Keasler (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the only living child of martial artist Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer ...
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Jozsef Lendvay Jozsef Lendvay (born 1974) is a Hungarian violinist. Born in Budapest, Hungary, József Lendvay Jr (''son of famed Gypsy Violinist József "Csócsi" Lendvay'') attended Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, where he studied with Miklos S ...
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Kerson Leong Kerson Leong (born 26 February 1997) is a Canadian violinist. He has been described by Jonathan Crow, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but 'one of the greatest violinists, per ...
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Luz Leskowitz Luz Leskowitz (born 7 August 1943) is an Austrian violinist, founder of the Salzburg Soloists music ensemble. He is an owner of the ex-Prihoda Stradivarius violin made in 1707.
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Gabrielle Lester Gabrielle Lester (also known as Gaby Lester) is an English classical violinist and orchestra leader. She maintains an extensive discography of classical, popular and soundtrack recordings. Career Gaby Lester was born in London, and is recog ...
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Jack Liebeck Jack Liebeck (born 4 August 1980) is a British–German violinist. In 2010, he won a Classical Brit in the young British classical performer category. He was soloist on the score for the 2011 film ''Jane Eyre'', directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and ...
(born 1980) * Lim Ji-young (born 1995) *
Cho-liang Lin Cho-Liang Lin (Lin Cho-liang, , born January 29, 1960), born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is an American violinist who is renowned for his appearances as a soloist with major orchestras. Musical America named him its "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 20 ...
(born 1960) * Joseph Lin (born 1978) *
Richard Lin Richard Lin () (born 6 July 1991 at United States) is a Taiwanese American violinist. He won competitions in Poland, United States, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan. In 2013 he won the first prize in the Sendai International Music Competition. In 20 ...
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Jessica Linnebach Jessica Linnebach (born 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta) 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. Linnebach plays the Taft ...
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Robert Lipsett Robert Crawford Lipsett Jr. (born October 23, 1947) is a 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 ...
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Tasmin Little Tasmin Little (born 13 May 1965) is an English classical violinist. She is a concerto soloist and also performs as a recitalist and chamber musician. She has released numerous albums, winning the Critics Award at the Classic Brit Awards in 201 ...
(born 1965) * Yang Liu (born 1976) *
Daniel Lozakovich Daniel Lozakovich (born 1 April 2001) is a Swedish classical violinist. He made his concert debut aged 9 under Vladimir Spivakov in Moscow, and was signed by Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 15 in 2016. He has released 3 albums as of 2023. Li ...
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Lü Siqing Lü Siqing (; born 26 November 1969) is a Chinese violinist. He was the first Asian violinist to win the first prize at the Paganini Competition in 1987. Biography Lü was born in 1969 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. As a child he was taught by ...
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Barbara Luisi Barbara Luisi is a photographer and a musician. After many years in New York City, she now lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Venice, Italy. Her artist statement: "my work is concerned exclusively with the perception of three elements: darkn ...
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Cora Venus Lunny Cora Venus Lunny (born 1982) is an Irish violinist, composer, singer, and actress. She is the daughter of Irish musician Dónal Lunny and German photographer Julia Buthe. Established as a classical musician since her teens, Lunny is active as a ...
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Cristian Măcelaru Cristian Măcelaru (born 15 March 1980, Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian conductor. Biography Măcelaru is the youngest child from a family of 10 children. He studied violin as a youth. He continued his music studies in the United States at th ...
(born 1980) *
Nikolay Madoyan Nikolay Madoyan (also spelled Nikolai Madojan, hy, Նիկոլայ Մադոյան; born 1 June 1973 in Yerevan) is an Armenian virtuoso violinist. Madoyan's continuous performance of 59 world classics of different styles and epochs, for more than ...
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Manoj George Manoj George is an Indian violinist and a music composer. He performed as the conductor, string arranger, solo violinist and choral arranger of 2 albums : ''Winds of Samsara'', which won the Grammy Award for the Best New Age Album in 2015 an ...
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Igor Malinovsky Igor Malinovsky (Igor Vladimirovich Malinovsky, Russian: Игорь Владимирович Mалиновский), was born in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) on 6 November 1977. He is a Russian concert violinist and Professor of violin. Igor Malin ...
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Sergey Malov Sergey Efimovich Malov (russian: Серге́й Ефи́мович Ма́лов; 28 January 1880, Kazan - 6 September 1957, Leningrad) was a Russian Turkologist who made important contributions to the documentation of archaic and contemporary Tur ...
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Antonello Manacorda Antonello Manacorda (born 1970) is an Italian violinist and conductor, especially of opera, who has worked internationally. He has been the chief conductor of the Kammerakademie Potsdam and of Het Gelders Orkest. Career Born in Turin, Manacorda ...
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Catherine Manoukian Catherine Manoukian (born June 2, 1981) is an Armenian-Canadian violinist. Biography Background and early life Catherine Manoukian was born in Toronto. Her parents were professional violinists and met at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where ...
(born 1981) * Catya Maré (violinist, songwriter and music producer) * Yannos Margaziotis (born 1967) *
Albert Markov Albert Markov (Russian: ''Альберт Александрович Марков''), is a Russian American violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue. He is the only concert violinist of the 20th and 21st century who composed major music work ...
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Alexander Markov Alexander Markov is a Russian American violinist who has received awards from the Paganini International Violin Competition (gold medal) and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is known for his recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin ...
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Edvin Marton Edvin Marton (born Lajos Edvin Csűry, 17 February 1974, Vylok, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian composer and violinist. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, Yuzuru Hany ...
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Gwendolyn Masin Gwendolyn Masin (born 17 November 1977) is a Dutch and Irish violinist, author, and educator. Early life Masin was born in Amsterdam. She began to play the piano at the age of 3, and took up the violin at the age of 5. Within her initial year o ...
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Bohuslav Matoušek Bohuslav Matoušek (born in Havlíčkův Brod, 26 September 1949) is a Czech violinist and violist. At present he is a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Prague and JAMU. He studied in the classes of Jaroslav Pekelský and Václav Snítil at Pragu ...
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Robert McDuffie Robert McDuffie is an American 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, Hou ...
(born 1958 estimated,In the following 2003 article, he says that he will have to give up his Guarneri at age 65, and that he still had 20 years before that event. In James Reel
"Strings of Gold: Violinist Robert McDuffie plays his million-dollar instrument with verve and appreciation"
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Anne Akiko Meyers Anne Akiko Meyers (born May 15, 1970) is an American concert violinist. Meyers was the top-selling classical instrumentalist of 2014 on Billboard's traditional classical charts. Early life and education The daughter of an artist and a college ...
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Franco Mezzena Franco Mezzena born 4 November 1953 in Trento, northern Italy, is an Italian violin virtuoso. He studied ten years with Salvatore Accardo. Activities * Guest soloist at concert halls and festivals in Europe, Japan, Africa, Martinique, South America ...
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Lucia Micarelli Lucia Micarelli (born July 9, 1983) is an American violinist, singer and actress best known for her collaborations with Josh Groban, Chris Botti and classic rock band Jethro Tull, and her role as Annie Talarico in '' Treme''. Early life Born ...
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Geoffrey Michaels Geoffrey Michaels (born 1944 in Perth, Western Australia) is a prominent violinist and violist. A child prodigy in the 1950s, he currently performs and teaches primarily in the United States. Biography Geoffrey Michaels began taking violin less ...
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Stoika Milanova Stoika Milanova (also Stoyka; born 5 August 1945) is a Bulgarian classical violinist and academic teacher. She was taught by her father using a method that he developed, and later by the violinist David Oistrakh. After placing second in the Queen ...
(born 1945) *
Vanya Milanova Vanya Milanova (born January 12, 1954; also Vania) is a Bulgarian-born solo violinist, recording artist and professor of music. Early life and education Milanova was born in Razgrad, Bulgaria. She was a child prodigy, having performed her first ...
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Stefan Milenković Stefan Milenkovich ( sr, Stefan Milenković, Стефан Миленковић; born January 25, 1977) is a Serbian violinist. Early life Milenković was born to a Serbian father, Zoran Milenković, and a Serbian-born mother of Italian descent, L ...
(born 1977) *
Shlomo Mintz Shlomo Mintz (Hebrew: שלמה מינץ) (born 30 October 1957) is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violinist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music conce ...
(born 1957) *
Madeleine Mitchell Madeleine Louise Mitchell MMus, ARCM, GRSM, FRSA is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries.Leticia Moreno Leticia Muñoz Moreno (born 1985 in Madrid) is a Spanish violinist. She began her music education at the early age of 3 in both violin and piano with the Suzuki Method offering her first recitals when she was just 5. In 1996 she studied six yea ...
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Amy Schwartz Moretti Amy Schwartz Moretti (born 1975) is an American violinist, currently the Caroline Paul King Chair in Strings at Mercer University's Townsend School of Music. Moretti was born in Wisconsin and raised in North Carolina and California. She studied in ...
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Bijan Mortazavi Bijan Mortazavi ( fa, بیژن مرتضوی, born November 16, 1957) is an Iranian virtuoso violinist, musician, composer, songwriter, arranger and singer. Biography Musical education Born in the city of Babol, Iran. Mortazavi studied music i ...
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Viktoria Mullova Viktoria Yurievna Mullova ( rus, Виктория Юрьевна Муллова, , vʲɪˈktorʲɪɪ̯ə ˈmuɫəvə; born 27 November 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number ...
(born 1959) * Aubrey Murphy *
Tai Murray Tai Murray (born ) is an American violinist. According to Murray, she became interested in the violin when her parents "put a pencil case with a toy violin in my hand when I was five". Born in Chicago, Illinois, Murray made her concert debut with t ...
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Anne-Sophie Mutter Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist. She was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan. As an advocate of contemporary music, she has had several works composed especially for her, by Sebastian Currier, Hen ...
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Stephen Nachmanovitch Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator. He is an improvisational violinist, and writes and teaches about improvisation, creativity, and systems approaches in many fields of activity. Biography Born in 1950, Na ...
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Florin Niculescu Florin Niculescu (born February 8, 1967 in Bucharest) is a Romanian violinist of Romani (Gypsy) ethnicity. Family background and education Niculescu was born into a family of educated '' lăutari''. Everybody in his family was involved in music: ...
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Gordan Nikolitch Gordan Nikolitch, also spelled Gordan Nikolić, ( sr, Гордан Николић; born 1968) is a Franco-Serbian violinist. He was the first concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra for nearly 20 years, having stepped down in October 2017 to ...
(born 1968) *
Ning Feng Ning Feng (宁峰, born 1982) is a Chinese violinist. He was born in Chengdu, China, and is based in Berlin. Career Ning Feng started playing the violin at a very young age and shortly after his fourth birthday he began lessons with Hu Weimin ...
(born 1982) * Ayano Ninomiya (born 1979) *
Domenico Nordio Domenico Nordio is an Italian violinist who was born in Piove di Sacco (21 March 1971). Nordio studied violin with Corrado Romano and Michèle Auclair. He began his concert career very young, winning the Vercelli "Viotti" International Competitio ...
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Elmar Oliveira Elmar Oliveira (born June 28, 1950) is an American violinist. Early life The son of Portuguese immigrants, Elmar Oliveira was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Oliveira was nine when he began studying the violin with his brother John. At age 16 ...
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Peter Oundjian Peter Oundjian (born 21 December 1955) is a Canadian-American violinist and conductor. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, as the youngest of five children from an Armenian father and English mother, Oundjian also claims Scottish ancestry throug ...
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Igor Ozim Igor Ozim (born 9 May 1931) is a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue, based in Salzburg, Austria. Career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. A ...
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Ji-hae Park Ji-Hae Park (born in Germany) is a German-born Korean violinist. Biography Park received her first violin lessons from her mother, Lee Yeun-Hong, when she was five years old. At age 14, she performed as soloist with the Mainz Chamber Orchestr ...
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Mariusz Patyra Mariusz Patyra (born 21 November 1977 in Orzysz, Poland) is a Polish violinist. He won First Prize in the International Violin Competition "Premio Paganini" (Genoa 2001). Career In 2001, Mariusz Patyra’s artistic career took off when he won t ...
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György Pauk György Pauk (born 26 October 1936) is a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue. Biography Pauk was born in Budapest, (Hungary), and entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music at age nine. He began his studies as Imre Waldbauer' ...
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Edith Peinemann Edith Peinemann (3 March 1937 – 25 February 2023) was an internationally recognized German violinist and professor of violin. At age nineteen she won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and made her U.S. debut as soloist in 1962 ...
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Adela Peña Adela 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 Roch ...
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Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman ( he, יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist widely considered one of the greatest violinists in the world. Perlman has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that hav ...
(born 1945) *
Mark Peskanov Mark Peskanov (born in Odesa, Ukraine – then part of the USSR) is an American virtuoso violinist, known as a soloist, chamber musician, composer, conductor, and concert presenter. Biography Peskanov began playing the piano at age three, and the ...
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Ioana Petcu-Colan Ioana Petcu-Colan is an Irish violinist of Romanian origin, currently living in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Biography Ioana Petcu-Colan, born in January 1978 in Cork, Ireland is the daughter of Adrian Petcu and of Ruxandra Colan-P ...
(born 1978) * Günter Pichler (born 1940) * Igor Pikayzen (born 1987) *
Jennifer Pike Jennifer Elizabeth Pike (born 9 November 1989) is a British violinist. Early years and education Pike began playing the violin at the age of five, and after auditioning at the age of eight she gained a place at Chetham's School of Music in Ma ...
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Rachel Barton Pine Rachel Barton Pine (born Rachel Elizabeth Barton, October 11, 1974) is an American violinist. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, and was the first American and youngest ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian Ba ...
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Elizabeth Pitcairn Elizabeth Pitcairn (born December 5, 1973) is a renowned American classical violinist who is noted for performing on the 1720 "Red Mendelssohn" Antonio Stradivari violin. In addition to a solo career, Pitcairn is President and Artistic Directo ...
(born 1973) * Ivan Pochekin (born 1987) *
Alina Pogostkina Alina Pogostkina (born 18 November 1983 in Leningrad) is a Russian-born German violinist. Early life and education Pogostkina is the daughter of two professional violinists. She began playing the violin at the age of four and quickly showed herse ...
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Kermit Poling Kermit Poling (born 1960, Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is an American conductor, violinist, and composer. Kermit Poling is Music Director of both the South Arkansas Symphony and the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet. He has performed extensively ...
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Rachel Lee Priday Rachel Lee Priday is a Korean-American violinist. Beginning in 1996, Priday studied with Dorothy DeLay and later Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School Pre-college Division. She attended a dual degree program with Harvard University and New Engl ...
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Philippe Quint Philippe Quint (born March 26, 1974) is an American classical violinist. Biography Quint was born on March 26, 1974, in Leningrad. He studied at Moscow's Special Music School for the Gifted with Russian violinist Andrei Korsakov and made his orch ...
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Julian Rachlin Julian Rachlin (born 8 December 1974) is a Lithuanian-born violinist, violist and conductor. 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 s ...
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Nemanja Radulović Nemanja Radulović ( sr-cyrl, Немања Радуловић; born 18 October 1985), is a Serbian violinist. Biography Radulović began studying the violin in 1992. In 1996, he was awarded the October Prize for music of the city of Belgrade, ...
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Itzhak Rashkovsky Itzhak Rashkovsky ( he, יצחק רשקובסקי) (born 1955) is a Ukrainian- Israeli violinist and pedagogue who obtained master's degree from the Israeli Academy of Music where he was under guidance from Yair Kless. He is a music director an ...
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Henry Raudales Henry Raudales is the concertmaster for the Brussels Philharmonic, a position he has held since 2005. He plays a Guadagnini violin from 1787. Raudales played his first public concert at age seven in North Carolina, which resulted in Yehudi Menu ...
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Kenneth Renshaw Kenneth Renshaw is an American concert violinist. Renshaw was born in San Francisco to Kerrilyn, a concert pianist and piano teacher, and Curtis Renshaw, a concert guitarist, in October 1993. When he was four, Kenneth started taking violin lessons ...
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Vadim Repin Vadim Viktorovich Repin (russian: Вадим Викторович Репин, ; born 31 August 1971) is a Russian and Belgian violinist who lives in Vienna.
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Yury Revich Yury Revich (born 28 August 1991) is an Austrian classical violinist and composer. He was named the Young Artist of the Year in 2015 by the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) and the 2016 ECHO Klassik "Newcomer of the year (violin)" award ...
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Gerardo Ribeiro Gerardo Ribeiro (born 1950, Oporto, Portugal) is a violinist who serves on the faculty of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music under Ivan Galamian. He previously taught at Central Mic ...
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André Rieu André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (; is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act. He re ...
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Guido Rimonda Guido Rimonda (born 1969) 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 mad ...
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Shahrdad Rohani Shahrdad Rohani, also known as Shardad Rohani ( fa, شهرداد روحانی, born 27 May 1954) is an Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary and he is well known for composing and conducting classi ...
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Svetlin Roussev Svetlin Roussev is a Bulgarian-born violinist. He was accepted to the Paris Conservatory at the age of 15, where he studied with Devy Erlih and Jean-Jacques Kantorow Jean-Jacques Kantorow (born 3 October 1945) is a French violinist and conductor. ...
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Mary Rowell Mary Rowell is an American violinist based in New York City. In 1998 Rowell co-founded the string quartet ETHEL. She retired from the group in 2011 but continues to be very active in the downtown New York music community, where she is known as an e ...
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Yaakov Rubinstein Ya’akov Rubinstein (Hebrew: יעקב רובינשטיין) is an Israeli violinist. He has performed concerts in Europe, Israel, Japan, China and in the United States since he was seven years of age. As a student of the Jerusalem Music Center, ...
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Jorge Saade Jorge Saade (born in Guayaquil, Ecuador; full name: Jorge Saade-Scaff) is a violinist. Background 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 ...
(born 1964) * Kaija Saarikettu (born 1957) *
Nikolai Sachenko Nikolai Sachenko (russian: links=no, Николай Саченко; born 1977) is a Russian violinist. He was awarded the top prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Brahms Trio, with ...
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Dilshad Said Dalshad Said ( ku, Dilşad Seîd ar, دلشاد محمد سعيد; born in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan in 1958) is a contemporary Kurdish musician. Biography After graduating from the music institute of Baghdad, he worked as an assistant of the condu ...
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Lara St. John Lara St. John (born April 15, 1971) is a Canadian violinist. Early life Lara St. John was born in London, Ontario, and spent her early childhood there.John Terauds, "Violinist Lara St. John Keeps Herself Guessing," ''Toronto Star'', October 22, ...
(born 1971) * Scott St. John (born 1969) *
Julia Sakharova Julia Sakharova (russian: Юлия Сахарова) 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. By the age of 11, she was a ...
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born January 10, 1961) is an Italian and American classical violinist and teacher. Early life and education Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome, Italy. Her father left when she was three months old. She emigrated with ...
(born 1961) * Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (born 1960) *
Eugene Sârbu Eugen Sârbu (born 6 September 1950) is a Romanian-born classical violinist. He has had an international career as a soloist, recitalist and conductor (from the violin). In 1978, he won both the Paganini Competition and the Carl Flesch Internation ...
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Giora Schmidt Giora Schmidt (pronounced ghee-OH-rah) is an American/Israeli violinist. Biography Giora Schmidt was born into a family of musicians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from Israel in 1978, and played with the Philadelphia Opera ...
(born 1983) * Rainer Schmidt (born 1964) * Eduard Schmieder (born 1948) *
Ani Schnarch Ani Schnarch ( he, אני שנארך) is a Romanian-born Israeli-British violinist who currently serves as a teacher at the Royal College of Music, London, and is a winner of both Francois Shapira and '' Mozart Memorial Prizes''. Career Schnar ...
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Lynnette Seah Lynnette Seah Mei Tsing () is a Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO). She received the Cultural Medallion for Music in 2006. Early life Seah began her formal music training on the piano with h ...
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Ilja Sekler Ilja Sekler (Russian: ''Илья Секлер'', born 1971, Moscow) is a Russian and German violinist. Life Sekler was born into a musical family. His father, Mikhail Sekler, is a virtuoso prizewinning violinist. Ilja Sekler began his violin trai ...
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Gil Shaham Gil Shaham (Hebrew: גיל שחם; born February 19, 1971) is an American violinist of Israeli Jewish descent. Biography Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois, while his Israeli parents were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illino ...
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Hagai Shaham Hagai Shaham ( he, חגי שחם, born July 8, 1966) is an Israelis, Israeli violin virtuoso. He began studying the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the late Professor Ilona Feher. He is also a violin teacher, a professor
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Hyun Su Shin Zia Hyunsu Shin (born July 16, 1987) is a South Korean violinist. Shin was born in Jeonju, and studies at the Korea National University of Arts. She plays a Guadagnini, which is on loan from the Kumho Asiana Foundation. She won the first great p ...
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Sayaka Shoji is a Japanese classical violinist. She was the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999. Biography Shoji was born in Tokyo into an artistic family (her mother is a painter; her grandmother, a poet) and spe ...
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Charlie Siem Charles Maximilian Siem (born 14 January 1986) is an English contemporary classical violinist. Life and career Charlie Siem was born in London, England, to Kristian Siem, a Norwegian businessman, and his South African-born wife. He has three si ...
(born 1986) * Siow Lee Chin (born 1966) *
Alexander Sitkovetsky Alexander Sitkovetsky (born 1983) is a British violinist. Biography 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 bein ...
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Dmitry Sitkovetsky Dmitry Yulianovich Sitkovetsky (russian: Дмитрий Юлианович Ситковецкий; born September 27, 1954) is a Soviet-Russian born classical violinist, conductor and arranger, most notably of an arrangement for strings of J. S. ...
(born 1954) *
Baiba Skride Baiba Skride (born 19 February 1981) is a Latvian classical violinist. She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001. Background and studies Baiba Skride comes from a very musical Latvian family: her love of music comes from ...
(born 1981) *
Alicja Smietana Alicja Smietana (born 9 August 1983 in Krakow, Poland) is a Polish people, Polish and British people, British violinist, viola player, arranger and composer currently based in London. Education Coming from a musical family (her father is jazz g ...
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Valeriy Sokolov Valeriy Sokolov (born September 22, 1986)Sue Son Son Sue-Kyung (Hangul: ), better known by her stage name Sue Son, is a South Korean classical and crossover violinist, raised in the United Kingdom and based in Seoul. She studied at London's Royal College of Music and debuted in South Korea wi ...
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Josef Špaček Josef Špaček (7 August 1927 – 11 July 2004) was a Czechoslovak communist politician who was an important member of the government during the 1968 reformist period known as the Prague Spring. He was appointed to the Central Committee of ...
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Vladimir Spivakov Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov (Russian: Влади́мир Теодо́рович Спивако́в; born 12 September 1944) is a Soviet and Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra. Spiva ...
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Daniel Stabrawa Daniel Stabrawa (born 23 August 1955 in Kraków) is a Polish violinist and conductor. Life Daniel Stabrawa began playing the violin at the age of seven and studied playing the violin at the Music Academy in Kraków with Zbigniew Szlezer. In 1979 ...
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Sergei Stadler Sergei Stadler (Russian: Сергей Стадлер) is a Russian violinist and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. Biography Laureate of the international music compet ...
(born 1962) * Judith Stapf (born 1997) *
Steven Staryk Steven Sam Staryk, OC (born 27 April 1932) is a Canadian violin virtuoso. He had a distinguished solo career and was concertmaster of several major orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Concertgeb ...
(born 1932) * Anton Steck (born 1965) *
Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman is a violin and viola professor at the Rotterdam Conservatory (CODARTS), a position she has held since 2006. Stefanovich was born in Serbia which was then part of Yugoslavia. She met her future husband, Igor Gruppman, ...
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Arabella Steinbacher Arabella Miho Steinbacher (born 14 November 1981) is a German classical violinist. Biography Steinbacher was born in Munich to a Japanese mother and a German father. When she was three, her mother read that a German violin teacher had recentl ...
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Arnold Steinhardt Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet. Steinhardt made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied ...
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Lya Stern Lya W. Stern (born 1950) is a violinist, recording artist and violin teacher. Born Lya Weiss to a Jewish family in Cluj, Romania, Stern moved to the United States as a teenager. She is married to Larry Stern and has two children. Education Stern ...
(born 1950) * Axel Strauss (born 1974) *
Marius Stravinsky Marius Stravinsky (born 1979) is a Kazakh-British conductor and violinist. Studies Marius Stravinsky was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He began his violin studies at the age of four at the Moscow Central Music School, and later moved to Lond ...
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Akiko Suwanai is a Japanese people, Japanese classical violinist. At the age of 18, she became the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she was awarded second prize in the Paganini Competition in 1988 and Queen E ...
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Airi Suzuki is a Japanese singer, actress, model, and radio personality associated with Up-Front Works. In 2002, she joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Project Kids and later debuted as one of the lead vocalists of the Japanese girl group Cute i ...
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Martynas Švėgžda von Bekker Martynas Švėgžda von Bekker (born 1967) is a Lithuanian violinist and musical educator. Life Švėgžda von Bekker started taking violin classes at the age of five from his grandmother E. Strazdas-Bekerienė, student of Leopold von Auer, J ...
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Vilmos Szabadi Vilmos Szabadi (born 1959) is a Hungarian violinist who has enjoyed an international reputation since the 1980s. In 2020 the ‘Artist of Merit’ prize was given him by the Hungarian Government. In 2018 the Bartók-Pásztory prize was awarded ...
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Antal Szalai Antal Zalai (Hungarian: Zalai Antal; born Antal Szalai January 31, 1981) 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 ...
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Agata Szymczewska Agata Szymczewska (born 1985 in Gdańsk) is a Polish violinist and alumna of the Academy of Music in Poznań and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where she studied under professors Bartosz Bryła and Krzysztof Węgrzyn, resp ...
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Kyoko Takezawa is a prominent Japanese-born violinist. She has recorded for the RCA Victor Red Seal label. Born in Ōbu, Aichi, 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 grad ...
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Ilkka Talvi Ilkka Talvi (born 22 October 1948) is a Finnish violinist and author of the blog ''Of Music and Men''. Education Initially self-taught, Talvi later studied with Arno Granroth, a pupil of Jacques Thibaud, at the Sibelius Academy. After winning ...
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Peter Tanfield Peter Tanfield (born 1961) is a British violinist. Career Tanfield's high school education was at Clifton College, Bristol , He studied under Igor Ozim, Felix Andrievski, Alberto Lysy, Herman Krebbers and Yehudi Menuhin. As soloist and chambe ...
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Veriko Tchumburidze ''Veriko Tchumburidze'' ( Georgian: ვერიკო ჭუმბურიძე; born 20 April 1996) is a Georgian / Turkish classical violinist who won 1st prize at the 15th Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2016 at age of 20. Ear ...
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Arve Tellefsen Arve Tellefsen () (born 14 December 1936) is a Norwegian violinist who has worked with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Arvid Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Gary Bertini, Evgeny Svetlanov, Bryden Thomson, Neeme Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ...
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Ryo Terakado is a Japanese violinist and conductor who specializes in historically informed performance. He also plays the viola, viola d'amore and violoncello da spalla. He has been teaching at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Toho Gakuen Schoo ...
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Christian Tetzlaff Christian Tetzlaff (born 29 April 1966) is a German violinist. Biography Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg. His parents were amateur musicians and met in a church choir. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debu ...
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Gwen Thompson Gwendoline Linda Louise Thompson (born 30 March 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) 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 Ma ...
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Olivier Thouin Olivier Thouin is a Canadian violinist. He has performed as a soloist with several leading symphony orchestras in Canada, including the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Les Violons du Roy, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. A highly ...
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Hugo Ticciati Hugo Ticciati (born April 12, 1980) is a British-born violinist, living in Sweden. He has performed in several worldwide events such as the Gotland Chamber Music Festival (Sweden), the St. Denis-Festival (Paris), and the Festival Internacional ...
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Anna Tifu Anna Tifu (born 1 January 1986) is an Italian classical violinist who has made an international career. She won the George Enescu International Competition in 2007. Career Anna Tifu was born to a Romanian father and Italian mother in Cagliari ...
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Diana Tishchenko Diana Tishchenko (; born 1990) is a German classical violinist of Ukrainian descent and the winner of the International Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris 2018. Named “Rising Star” by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) in ...
(born 1990) * Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (born 1995) *
Richard Tognetti Richard Leo Tognetti AO (born 4 August 1965) is a leading Australian musician recognised internationally as a violin soloist, ensemble player, leader, composer and arranger, conductor and artistic director. He is currently artistic dir ...
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Alexandru Tomescu Alexandru Tomescu (born 15 September 1976) is a Romanian violinist. He plays a 1702 Stradivarius known as the Elder Voicu, which is on loan from the Romanian government until 2023. He was invited by the South Korean Ministry of Fine Arts (MOFA ...
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Viktor Tretiakov Viktor Viktorovich Tretiakov (russian: Ви́ктор Ви́кторович Третьяко́в; born 17 October 1946) is a Russian violinist and conductor. Other spellings of his name are Victor, Tretyakov and Tretjakov. Biography The son of a ...
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Lana Trotovšek Lana Trotovšek (born September 5, 1983) is a London-based Slovenian violinist. She is a soloist and chamber musician performing in U.S.A., U.K., China, Japan, Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, and S ...
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Kirill Troussov Kirill Troussov (born ) in Saint Petersburg, is a German violinist and violin teacher based in Munich, Germany. Career Kirill Troussov began playing the violin at the age of four and was taught by Irina Etigon at the Saint Petersburg Conserva ...
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Yu-Chien Tseng Yu-Chien (Benny) Tseng (; born August 24, 1994) is a Taiwanese violinist. In 2012 he was fifth laureate in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, where he also won both the Musiq'3 and the Klara-Canvas prizes awarded by the public. In the 15th I ...
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Uto Ughi Bruto Diodato "Uto" Ughi (; born 21 January 1944) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia between 1987 and 1992. He is considered one of Italy's greatest living ...
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Jourdan Urbach Jourdan Urbach is an entrepreneur and retired professional violinist/composer. He was born in Roslyn, New York and currently resides in New York City. Early life and education Jourdan Urbach was born on Long Island, New York to Deborah and Vi ...
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Elina Vähälä Elina Vähälä (born 15 October 1975, Iowa City, Iowa) is a Finnish classical violinist. Biography Born in the United States in Iowa City, Iowa, Vähälä began violin studies at the age of three, following her family's return to Finland, at th ...
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Almita Vamos Roland and Almita Vamos are a husband and wife who are violin and viola instructors. The Vamoses have been recognized at the White House seven times and were named Distinguished Teachers by the National Endowment for the Arts. They have been hono ...
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Roland Vamos Roland and Almita Vamos are a husband and wife who are violin and viola instructors. The Vamoses have been recognized at the White House seven times and were named Distinguished Teachers by the National Endowment for the Arts. They have been hono ...
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Vanessa-Mae Vanessa-Mae (陈美 Chén Měi; born 27 October 1978) also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the Uni ...
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Satu Vänskä Satu Vänskä (born 1979) is a Finnish Australian violinist. Early life Vänskä was born to a Finnish family in the Kinki region of Japan, where she took her first violin lessons at the age of three. Her family moved back to Finland in 1989 and ...
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Vasko Vassilev Vasko Vassilev ( bg, Васко Василев, links=no; born October 14, 1970 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian violinist and conductor. At the age of eight he had his first public appearance and released his first record with the Sofia Phil ...
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Maxim Vengerov Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, , mɐkˈsʲim ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnˈɡʲerəf; he, מקסים ונגרוב; born 20 August 1974) is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, ...
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Emmy Verhey Emmy Verhey (born 13 March 1949, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch violinist. Biography Verhey received her first violin lesson from her father when she was seven. Within a year, she played the Violin Concerto in A minor and the Concerto for Two Vio ...
(born 1949) * Zino Vinnikov (born 1943) *
Milan Vitek Milan Vitek (born Ostrava, Czech Republic, 30 August 1938) is a violinist, conductor, educator and Professor of Violin at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.Stephen Waarts Stephen Waarts (born 1996) is a Dutch Americans, Dutch American violinist. He was the first prize winner in the senior division of the 2014 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Austin, Texas. He was also the fifth prize ...
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Jean-Pierre Wallez Jean-Pierre Wallez (born 18 March 1939) 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 wo ...
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Donald Weilerstein Donald Weilerstein (born 1940) is an American violinist and pedagogue. Early life and education Weilerstein was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Berkeley, California. He began playing the violin at the age of four and earned a Bachelor o ...
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Antje Weithaas Antje Weithaas (born 1966) is a German classical violinist. Apart from solo recitals and chamber music performances, she has played with leading orchestras in Europe, Asia and the United States. Career Born in Guben, Weithaas studied at the H ...
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Rudolf Werthen Rudolf Werthen is a Belgian violinist, conductor and teacher. He is founder and artistic director of the orchestra ''I Fiamminghi'' and was chief conductor of the symphonic orchestra of the Flemish Opera in 1989. He has taught at the Royal Conse ...
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Noa Wildschut Noa Wildschut (born 9 March 2001, Hilversum) is a Dutch List of violinists, concert violinist. Biography Noa Wildschut is the daughter of Arjan Wildschut, violist in the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, and Liora Ish-Hurwitz, violin teacher, from ...
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Jasper Wood Jasper Wood (born April 29, 1974) is a Canadian concert violinist. Jasper Wood was born into a musical family of six brothers and sisters: his brothers are Craig and Derek, his sisters, Anya, Heather and Lisette. He gave his first public perfor ...
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Bartosz Woroch Bartosz Woroch (born 27 September 1984) is a Polish-born violinist and prize winner at major international competitions such as the Pablo Sarasate in Pamplona, Spain, in 2003 and the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. ...
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Brett Yang TwoSet Violin is a musical comedy duo consisting of Australian violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen. The pair is best known for their musical comedy on their YouTube channel, which has reached over 3.8 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views a ...
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Yuval Yaron Yuval Yaron (born 1953 in Petah Tikva, Israel)Perez, Jennifer AnneViolinist Rediscovers Jewish Heritage Through Song, Chabad.org, July 23, 2007. is an Israel-born violinist living in the United States. In 1975, he won the International Jean Sibel ...
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Esther Yoo Esther Yoo (born 11 June 1994) is an American violinist. Early life and education Born in the United States and raised in Europe, Yoo began playing the violin at the age of 4 and made her concert debut aged 8. She attended the International Scho ...
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Scott Yoo Scott Yoo (born April 25, 1971) is an American conductor and violinist. He was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016. He hosts the PBS TV series ''Now Hear This''. Early life Yoo w ...
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Soyoung Yoon Soyoung Yoon (born October 18, 1984 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean violinist. She started playing the violin at the age of five. She plays on the 1710 King George Stradivarius and the 1773 ex-Bückeburg J.B. Guadagnini violin. Yoon ...
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Diana Yukawa is a Japanese-born British solo violinist and composer. She has released four solo albums and one digital EP. Personal life Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month af ...
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Antal Zalai Antal Zalai (Hungarian: Zalai Antal; born Antal Szalai January 31, 1981) 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 ...
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Thomas Zehetmair Thomas Zehetmair (born 23 November 1961) is an Austrian violinist and conductor. Biography Zehetmair was born in Salzburg, and studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, where both of his parents taught. His festival debut was at age 16. He was in mast ...
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Ivan Ženatý Ivan Ženatý (born February 2, 1962) is a Czech violinist. Ženatý appears regularly as a guest artist with famed ensembles internationally such as BBC Symphony Orchestra of London, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Sympph ...
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Simone Zgraggen Simone Zgraggen (born 8 August 1975 in Altdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss violinist and professor at Freiburg University of Music. Career Simone Zgraggen began playing the violin at the age of five. She studied from 1991 to 1994 at Lucerne Unive ...
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Jay Zhong Jay Zhong (born January 13, 1973) is a contemporary Chinese-American classical violinist. He was born in Beijing, China. Zhong, one of the last private pupils of Russian violin pedagogue Raphael Bronstein, also studied with Bronstein's student ...
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Nancy Zhou Nancy Zhou (born January 5, 1993) is a Chinese-American classical violinist. She has performed as a soloist in recital and with orchestras throughout the world. Zhou has been a prizewinner in several major competitions, including first prizes in ...
(born 1993) * Kevin Zhu (born 2000) *
Leia Zhu Leia Zhu (, born October 2006 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British-Chinese classical violinist. By the age of 12, Leia had performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in more than 18 countries; at the same age, she became the youn ...
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Frank Peter Zimmermann Frank Peter Zimmermann (born 27 February 1965) is a German violinist. Childhood He was born in Duisburg, West Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. Since he ...
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Nikolaj Znaider Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (born 5 July 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish violinist and conductor. Biography Szeps-Znaider was born in Copenhagen to Polish-Jewish parents. His father had originally emigrated from Poland to Israel, and his moth ...
(born 1975) *
Pinchas Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman ( he, פנחס צוקרמן, born 16 July 1948) is an Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor. Life and career Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Jewish parents and Holocaust survivors Yehuda and Miriam Lieberman Zuk ...
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Jaap van Zweden Jaap van Zweden (; born 12 December 1960) is a Dutch conductor and violinist. He is currently music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and of the New York Philharmonic, and music director-designate of the Seoul Philharmonic. Bio ...
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Chiara Banchini Chiara 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 ...
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Fabio Biondi Fabio Biondi (born 15 March 1961) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He is a specialist in Baroque and early music. Biography Born in Palermo, Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , populatio ...
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Giuliano Carmignola Giuliano Carmignola (born 7 July 1951, in Treviso) is an Italian violinist. Born in Treviso, he studied with his father, then with Luigi Ferro at the Venice Conservatory and afterwards with Nathan Milstein and Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigi ...
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Lucy van Dael Lucy van Dael (born in 1946) 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. Originally a classically trained violinist, she began h ...
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Isabelle Faust Isabelle Faust (born 19 March 1972) is a German violinist who has worked internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She received multiple awards. Life and career Faust was born in Esslingen on 12 March 1972. She received her first vi ...
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Enrico Gatti Enrico Gatti (born 1955) is an Italian violinist, known for playing Baroque music. Gatti was born in Perugia, Italy. He graduated from the Geneva Conservatory as a student of Chiara Banchini and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Sigiswa ...
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Reinhard Goebel Reinhard Goebel (; born 31 July 1952 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments and professor for historical performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Goebel received his fir ...
(born 1952) (also conducts) *
Gottfried von der Goltz Gottfried von der Goltz (born 1 June 1964 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. Born into the ancient Brandenburgish Goltz family, Gottfried was a great-grandson of the former commande ...
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Ilya Gringolts Ilya Gringolts (russian: Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Гринго́льц ''Il′já Aleksándrovič Gringól′c'') born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is a Russian violinist and composer. Gringolts studied violin in S ...
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Thomas Hengelbrock Thomas Hengelbrock (born 9 June 1958) is a German violinist, musicologist, stage director and conductor. Born in Wilhelmshaven, Hengelbrock studied the violin with Rainer Kussmaul. He started his career in Würzburg and Freiburg im Breisgau. He ...
(born 1958) (primarily known for conducting) * John Holloway (born 1948) *
Monica Huggett Monica Huggett (born 16 May 1953 in London, England) 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, baroqu ...
(born 1953) (also conducts) *
Alina Ibragimova Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova (russian: link=no, Али́на Рина́товна Ибраги́мова; ba, Алина Ринат ҡыҙы Ибраһимова born 28 September 1985) is a Russian-British violinist. Early life and education ...
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Sigiswald Kuijken Sigiswald Kuijken (; born 16 February 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on period and original instruments. Biography Kuijken was born in Dilbeek, near Brussels. He was a member of the Alarius Ensemble of ...
(born 1944) (also conducts) *
Andrew Manze Andrew Manze (born 14 January 1965) is a British conductor and violinist living in Germany. Born in Beckenham, United Kingdom, Manze read Classics at Cambridge University. Manze studied violin and worked with Ton Koopman (his director in th ...
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Eduard Melkus Eduard Melkus (born 1 September 1928 in Baden bei Wien) is an Austrian violinist and violist.''International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003'' Following the Second World War, Melkus dedicated himself to the exploration of historically informed ...
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Viktoria Mullova Viktoria Yurievna Mullova ( rus, Виктория Юрьевна Муллова, , vʲɪˈktorʲɪɪ̯ə ˈmuɫəvə; born 27 November 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number ...
(born 1959) (performs principally on the modern violin) * Petra Müllejans (born 1959) *
Ioana Petcu-Colan Ioana Petcu-Colan is an Irish violinist of Romanian origin, currently living in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Biography Ioana Petcu-Colan, born in January 1978 in Cork, Ireland is the daughter of Adrian Petcu and of Ruxandra Colan-P ...
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Rachel Barton Pine Rachel Barton Pine (born Rachel Elizabeth Barton, October 11, 1974) is an American violinist. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, and was the first American and youngest ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian Ba ...
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Rachel Podger Rachel Podger (born 1968 in England) is a British violinist and conductor specialising in the performance of Baroque music. Career Podger was born to a British father and a German mother. She was educated at a German Rudolf Steiner school then ...
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Hélène Schmitt Hélène Schmitt is a prize-winning French violinist and a professor of baroque violin in Boulogne-Billancourt. Schmitt first started out as a chamber musician before specialising in baroque music. She spent 10 years in Bâle, next to Chiara Ban ...
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Simon Standage Simon Andrew Thomas Standage (born 8 November 1941 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments. Biography and ...
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Elizabeth Wallfisch Elizabeth Wallfisch (née Hunt; born 28 January 1952) is an Australian Baroque violinist. Biography Born in Melbourne, Wallfisch debuted as a concert soloist at the age of 12 and took part in such competitions as the ABC Concerto Competition. She ...
(born 1952) (also conducts)


References


External links


Legendary Violinists
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