Zakhar Bron (russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон ; born 17 December 1947, in

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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

) is a Russian

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 and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist and violin pedagogue of Jewish, Polish and Romanian descent. His students have included

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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, v ...

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, Priya Mitchell, Igor Malinovsky,

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, Denis Goldfeld,

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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 fr ...

, Mayu Kishima, Soyoung Yoon, Christoph Seybold,Christoph Seybold, Biography
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, Nikolai Madoyev and

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. Bron studied with

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. Before he was well-known, he taught privately in

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. Since then, he has taught at the

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, the Conservatory of

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, the Musikhochschule

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and the

Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...

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. In 1997, he took up a position at the

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Musikhochschule.

Bibliography

* The Way They Play. (by Samuel Applebaum and Mark Zilberquit) Book 14. Paganinia Publication Inc., 1986, pp. 65–114

References

External links

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Zakhar Bron School of Music

Zakhar Bron Chamber Orchestra

Magister Musicae; Master Class Videos by Professor Zakhar Bron
1947 births Academics of the Royal Academy of Music German people of Kazakhstani descent German people of Russian-Jewish descent Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition prize-winners Kazakhstani Jews Living people People's Artists of Russia People from Oral, Kazakhstan Reina Sofía School of Music faculty Russian classical violinists Male classical violinists Russian Jews Russian music educators Jewish violinists Jewish classical musicians Jewish musicians Zurich University of the Arts faculty Jewish classical violinists 21st-century classical violinists 21st-century Russian male musicians Lübeck Academy of Music faculty Russian people of Romanian descent Novosibirsk Conservatory academic personnel {{violinist-stub