All Violinists articles – Page 4

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Janine 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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Leila 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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Leonidas 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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Sergey 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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Yehudi 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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Nathan 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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Viktoria Mullova

Viktoria Mullova was born in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in Soviet Russia. She studied at the Central Music School of Moscow and the Moscow Conservatory and forged an international reputation after winning first prize at the 1980 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky ...

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Nikolaj Znaider

Soloist, conductor and chamber musician, Nikolaj Znaider studied with the Russian pedagogue Boris Kuschnir and, in 1997, won one of the most highly respected violin prizes: the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. He now performs regularly with the world's leading orchestras and was invited by Valery Gergiev ...

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Pinchas Zukerman

Performing on both violin and viola, Pinchas Zukerman was part of a circle of prodigious young musicians including Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman and Jacqueline du Pré. Born in Israel in 1948 to parents who had moved to Tel Aviv from Poland after surviving concentration camps, ...

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Vadim Repin

Vadim Repin was born in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia in 1971. His association with the violin came about by chance when his mother took him to a music course to study the accordion, but the only place left was on the violin course. A child prodigy, he won ...

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Ruggiero Ricci

Born in California to Italian parents, the American violinist Ruggiero Ricci started the violin aged seven, studying with Louis Persinger and Elizabeth Lackey. He gave his first public performance aged 10 in San Francisco, where he played worked by Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, and soon afterwards he made ...