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ArticleMidori Goto
Born in Japan, Midori Goto began her studies with her mother - also a concert violinist - at the age of three and made her debut in Osaka, Japan, four years later. At the age of nine she played at the Aspen Musical Festival, before enrolling at ...
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ArticleIda Haendel
Born in Chelm, a small town in provincial Poland, Ida Haendel first picked up her father's violin at the age of 3 and won her first competition, the Huberman Prize, when she was five, playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Her family recognised her potential immediately and spent several ...
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ArticleHilary Hahn
The 2013-14 season marked the 30th anniversary of two-time Grammy-winning American violinist Hilary Hahn’s first violin lesson. In the two decades since her professional debut, she has delved into core repertoire, contemporary music, and less familiar classic compositions with equal commitment. Hilary Hahn has released 15 albums ...
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ArticleJascha Heifetz
Considered by many to be the finest violinist of all time, Jascha Heifetz had a long and successful performing and recording career beginning in Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), where he was born. Initially taught by his father, a local violin teacher, he went on to study ...
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ArticleNobuko Imai
Japanese violist Nobuko Imai started to learn the violin at the age of six and attended the Toho School in Tokyo at the age of 15 to study with Toshiya Eto. Here Imai took up the viola as a second instrument and developed a strong affinity with ...
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ArticleIsaac Stern
Isaac Stern, one of the youngest of the great violinists of the 'Golden Age', was celebrated as much for his humanitarian endeavours as his mastery of the violin. Born in Kremenets, Ukraine in 1920, Stern was removed by his parents to San Francisco before his first birthday. ...
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ArticleSteven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis was born into a musical family in London, 1958. From 1976 to 1978 Isserlis studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Richard Kapuscinski and has cited Daniil Shafran, who he first met when interviewing the Russian cellist for The Strad in 1987, as a ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue Itzhak Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. After arriving in New York he was launched into the international arena with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Following his studies at the Juilliard ...
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ArticleJanine Jansen
One of today's brightest stars, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen began performing aged six and went on to study with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin. She made her Concertgebouw debut in 1997 and was named a BBC New Generation Artist in 2002, making her London debut ...
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz
Born in Canada to a Polish father and an English mother, Leila Josefowicz moved to California as a young child and enrolled in a Suzuki violin class. At the age of eight she was taken on by California's leading teacher, Robert Lipsett, at the Colburn School of ...
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ArticleJulian Lloyd-Webber
Julian Lloyd-Webber studied at the Royal College of Music in London and in Geneva with Pierre Fournier. He has collaborated with an array of musicians including Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel and Sir Georg Solti, and premiered more than 60 works for cello. His many recordings include the ...
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ArticleKim Kashkashian
Born in Detroit of Armenian descent, Kim Kashkashian trained at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore under the tutelage of Karen Tuttle and the legendary violist Walter Trampler. She has also cited the teachings of Felix Galimir, with whom she has worked at the Malboro Festivals in Vermont, ...
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos
Born into a musical family in Athens, Leonidas Kavakos began playing the violin at the age of five, later enrolling in the Hellenic Conservatory where he studied with Stelios Kafantaris. The winner of several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini and Indianopolis, he has performed with ...
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ArticleSergey Khachatryan
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan moved to Germany at the age of eight, giving his first public concert a year later in the Kurhaus, Wiesbaden. He went on to win First Prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest ...
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ArticleSerge Koussevitzky
Russian born Serge Koussevitzky began his career as a double bass soloist but was best known for his 25-year stint as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Raised in a musical family, Koussevitzky's initial instruction in music came from his parents until he was granted a scholarship ...
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ArticleLionel Tertis
Lionel Tertis was a key figure in establishing the viola as a solo instrument, greatly expanding its repertoire and prominence. Born in West Hartlepool to Polish-Jewish parents, he began his studies on the violin before leaving home at the age of thirteen, paying for his own musical ...
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma
Born in Paris to Chinese parents, Yo-Yo Ma's prodigious talents persuaded his family to move to New York to allow their son to attend the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Leonard Rose. Determined to widen his experiences, however, the cosmopolitan Ma chose to study a liberal ...
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin is widely regarded as one of the leading violin virtuosos of the twentieth century. Born into a Belarussian-Jewish family in New York, Menuhin studied in Paris under the Romanian violinst Georges Enesco, with whom he developed a life-long relationship. He began touring as a teenager ...
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ArticleNathan Milstein
Celebrated for his technical ease, aristocratic poise, mellifluous bowing and tonal perfection, Nathan Milstein sustained a professional career at the highest level into his early 80s. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Milstein began his musical education with the two famous instructors, Pyotry Stoliarsky and Leopold Auer. The 1917 ...
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ArticleTruls Mørk
The Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk grew up in Bergen in a musical family, his father a cellist and his mother a pianist. At the age of 17 he began studying with Frans Helmerson and would later receive tuition from the Austrian cellist Heinrich Schiff and Natalia Shakhovskaya ...
