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Ray Chen

Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray Chen was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists. He burst onto the scene in 2008, winning the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, before following ...

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Sarah Chang

Sarah Chang is living proof that child prodigies can develop into fully-fledged artists. The daughter of two Korean musicians, she started learning the violin at the age of four and rose to international prominence before her teens, performing Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Zubin Mehta and ...

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Renaud Capuçon

French violinist Renaud Capuçon began his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of fourteen, before moving to Berlin to study with Thomas Brandis and Isaac Stern. In 1997, he was invited by Claudio Abbado to become concertmaster of the Gustav ...

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Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti's success from a young age has made her one of the most high-profile violinists in the world today. Born to a half-Scottish, half-Italian mother and an Italian father, Benedetti was brought up in West Kilbride, Scotland. She started the violin aged five and received instruction ...

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Joshua Bell

The American violinist Joshua Bell began his musical education by attempting to pluck out music on stretched-out rubber bands. Soon afterwards, aged four, he started violin lessons. Taught by pedagogues including Donna Bricht, Mimi Zweig and Josef Gingold, he made his first major professional appearance, aged ...

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Lisa Batiashvili

A student of Ana Chumachenko and Mark Lubotski, Lisa Batiashvili gained international recognition at age 16 as the youngest-ever competitor in the Sibelius Competition. The Georgian violinist has collaborated in chamber music and concerto performances with cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne and in 2006 premiered ...

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Rachel Barton Pine

©Lisa Marie Mazzucco Born in Chicago, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10. Despite a serious injury on a train in her twenties, which forced her to take a two-year career break, Pine has since performed with ...

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Augustin Hadelich

Aged 15 in 1999, German violinist Augustin Hadelich stopped playing for almost a year after a fire on his family's farm severely burned his upper body. Nevertheless, he managed to resume his solo career, going on to win gold medal at the 2006 Violin Competition of Indianopolis. ...

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

Exempted from school to dedicate herself full-time to music, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was invited by conductor Herbert von Karajan to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic aged 13. By now she has played all over the world, with practically every major symphony orchestra. Although she is ...

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Alina Ibragimova

The Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova launched her career at the age of six, playing in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Four years later, her family moved to England, where she completed her education, winning the London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship in 2002. A former member of the BBC ...

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Aaron Rosand

Acclaimed for his performances of romantic repertoire and his sweet tone, the American violinist and pedagogue Aaron Rosand has recorded prolifically and appeared with many major orchestras all over the world. He helped to lead the Romantic Revival in the 1960s, often performing forgotten works at Butler ...