And the stalwart concertmaster Rainer Honeck — seconded on the first stand of violins by another concertmaster, Albena Danailova — carried through the expert, energetic leadership he had shown throughout the weekend.
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David Kim, Philadelphia Orchestra's concertmaster, conducts Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Jan.
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He is now the concertmaster for the New York Philharmonic.
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I was the concertmaster for his concert, which was petrifying and thrilling.
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She is also the concertmaster of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra Society in Vermont.
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Several solo instrumentalists — above all, Benjamin Bowman (violin and concertmaster) — showed marvelous eloquence.
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" He said: "The concertmaster told me, 'But the score says mezzo-forte, not piano.
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At 20, Mr. Jordan was hired as the concertmaster of the Ulm Stadttheater in Germany.
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"His shrieks, which lasted until 10 o'clock, were terrible," writes the Leipzig concertmaster Ferdinand David.
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Opera fans, take note: He was recently hired as a concertmaster for the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra.
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Pete Scully, the concertmaster of the Hazelton Chamber Orchestra, is said to have dialysis three times weekly.
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Only the physically expressive cues of the concertmaster, Joseph Morag, hinted at the amount of autonomy he enjoyed.
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At one point, the concertmaster, David Chan, presented Mr. Levine with red roses as the players warmly applauded.
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On Thursday, audiences can hear Frank Huang, the Philharmonic's new concertmaster, as soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 2664.
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As an added attraction, Frank Huang, the orchestra's popular concertmaster, is playing a major violin concerto, Saint-Saëns's Third.
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MENAHEM BREUER, former concertmaster, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra It was never for show, although he was dancing on the podium.
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They were just a bunch of top-notch Philharmonic musicians being led by their concertmaster, the violinist Frank Huang.
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But despite the news, Drew Irvin — the orchestra's co-concertmaster — came up with a way to play some music.
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David Kim, Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, will join the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey as they play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Jan.
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Individual solos — of the flutist Robert Langevin in the Ravel, or the concertmaster Frank Huang in "Scheherazade" — are exquisitely nuanced.
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Mr. Chooi, 27, who was offered a one-year contract beginning next month, will join the Met's other concertmaster, David Chan.
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As concertmaster, or leader of the first violins, Mr. Preucil is second in importance and power only to the orchestra's conductor.
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When she was 10 her family moved to Houston, where she studied with the concertmaster of the Houston Symphony, Josephine Boudreaux.
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ALEXI KENNEY This elegant young violinist turned up at Lincoln Center this spring as a guest concertmaster with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
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That left the Fischers' son, Sam, a Juilliard-trained concert violinist and concertmaster, then in a serious relationship with a fellow violinist.
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The orchestra's strings are still fabulous after all these decades, and the concertmaster, David Kim, gave lovely turns to solo violin passages.
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In "Morgen," it was the orchestra's concertmaster, Frank Huang, who brought the song to a close with a solo of hushed mystery.
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They also shared many of the same hard-working performers, led by Stephen Stubbs and Paul O'Dette, lutenists, and Robert Mealy, concertmaster.
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The strings, led throughout the evening by Sheryl Staples, the principal associate concertmaster, were strong, as were the woodwinds, mostly second-stringers.
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He has hired more than 30 musicians, a change that has not been without tensions, and recently named a new concertmaster, Madeline Adkins.
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The orchestra was also excellent, most notably Olivier Brault, concertmaster; René Schiffer, continuo cellist; and Rebecca Landell Reed, cellist and violist da gamba.
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Mr. Stern rose to become the equivalent of associate concertmaster and also served several terms as a member of the orchestra's leadership committee.
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There will also be a performance of the Symphony No. 34, led by the concertmaster William Preucil, who has held that post since 1995.
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Last year, Mr. Vanska married the orchestra's concertmaster, Erin Keefe, and signed a contract through 20123, including the same pay cut his players took.
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The New York Philharmonic's selection of Frank Huang as its concertmaster last year was a critical decision in Alan Gilbert's tenure as music director.
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By contrast, the Orchestra of St. Luke's includes players — including its concertmaster, Krista Bennion Feeney — who are well versed in the period-instrument world.
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In the slow central movement Ms. Jansen shared lines seamlessly with individuals, mainly the concertmaster, David Kim, and the associate principal cellist, Priscilla Lee.
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David Chan, the Met's concertmaster, said the instrument was even smaller than his first violin, which he got when he was 3 years old.
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Ludwig Müller, the concertmaster of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, announced Mr. Schiff's death to the Austrian Press Agency but did not specify the cause.
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This could satisfy two more of Sun's goals—playing as the concertmaster in an orchestra and playing what amounted to a concerto with an orchestra.
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The concertmaster — here, Sheryl Staples (in the absence of Frank Huang) — emerges from silence almost imperceptibly and in all innocence with a fetching little tune.
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"Kelly is the Fiddler on Broadway!" read an email she sent to friends after landing the gig as the orchestra's concertmaster, who plays all the solos.
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He began studying conducting and, after being invited to lead a small Dutch orchestra, gave up the safe post of concertmaster — and the violin — at 36.
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He plays the fifth and ninth piano sonatas, and is joined by the violinist Guy Braunstein, formerly concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, for two violin sonatas.
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Most memorable, looking back, were the work of Volkmar Steude, the concertmaster, in the extended violin solos of Strauss's "Ein Heldenleben" ("A Hero's Life") on Feb.
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It eggs on the virtuosic passages — played with delightful sass especially by the Philharmonic's concertmaster, Frank Huang — and pops up, hiccup-like, even in lyrical moments.
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The many solo stints included fine ones from Frank Huang, the concertmaster; Liang Wang, the principal oboist; Philip Myers, the principal hornist; and Markus Rhoten, the timpanist.
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Over his desk hung a historical photograph of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; when Mr. van Zweden was just 19, that ensemble made him its concertmaster.
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The instrumental solos that enlivened the orchestrations toward the end were unevenly played, especially the big ones for violin, shrilly rendered at times by the concertmaster, Linda Quan.
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At 19, he became the concertmaster of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and is believed to be the youngest person ever to hold the post in that storied orchestra.
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Sheryl Staples, the principal associate concertmaster, gave lovely turns to the violin solos in the absence of Mr. Huang, who had his hands full with his concerto performance.
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The strings — as usual, it seems, when Sheryl Staples, the principal associate concertmaster, is in charge — were especially fine: smooth and supple, and breathtaking in some of their pianissimos.
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"My father knew nothing about music, but he used sense in going to the concertmaster of the Portland Symphony for advice," Mr. Mann told The Toronto Star in 292.
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The concertmaster, Gianpiero Zanocco, would often take off on a flight of skittering violinistic fancy, and you would notice that the playing of the second violinist was almost as remarkable.
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During the extended romantic episode that features searching solo violin lines, Frank Huang, the orchestra's impressive concertmaster, played with rich, glowing sound that came through nicely, even when amplified outdoors.
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"Music is alive, but it becomes more alive when you've got the audience's energy coming back at you," said Drew Irvin, ASO's co-concertmaster, who came up with the idea.
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The bride's father is an actor now appearing as Warren Boyd, the concertmaster in "Mozart in the Jungle," a comedy-drama Amazon web series filmed in the New York area.
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Women make up about one third of the Boston Symphony, but along with the harpist and acting concertmaster, it has only one other female principal: Elizabeth Rowe, the principal flute.
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Then it clicked, with an exquisite "Träumerei," featuring the seductive violin playing of Benjamin Bowman, Ballet Theater's concertmaster, during a pas de deux for Princess Tea Flower and Prince Coffee.
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To hear the faculty — notably including Frank Huang, the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic — describe it, conservatory training in China now somewhat resembles the Juilliard School's a generation ago.
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Mr. van Zweden lured one of his successors at the Concertgebouw — Alexander Kerr, who had left Amsterdam to teach at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music — to be concertmaster here.
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He made an impression, and soon afterward, at the age of 19, he was made the orchestra's concertmaster; he is believed to be the youngest musician ever to hold the post.
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Classical Music There are two more chances to hear Frank Huang, the Philharmonic's new concertmaster, as soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 123 with the dynamic Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.
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Back at Stanford, Sun started studying with Dawn Harms, a member of the music faculty who was a co-concertmaster of the Oakland Symphony and a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.
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Mr. Huang, the New York Philharmonic's concertmaster, steps across to Carnegie Hall to celebrate the history of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, a crucial supporter of many young artists' work over the years.
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Mr. Harnoncourt, a cellist, founded the period-instrument ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien — with his wife as concertmaster — in 1953, and it remained crucial to his performance activities even as orchestral conducting came to dominate.
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When the Cleveland Orchestra fired its longtime concertmaster, William Preucil, last week amid accusations of sexual misconduct, the news soon resonated beyond the orchestra world to music teachers and the parents of violin students.
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Led at the Morgan by the musical directors Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and the concertmaster Robert Mealy, the opera's score is stylistically diverse and forward-looking, with surprising psychological depth and melodic beauty.
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Ms. Lack was the first concertmaster of the Little Orchestra Society in New York and went on to make many recordings, including one of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Op. 64, with the New York Philharmonic.
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The 2019 program features Bach in a secular vein, as court composer, with works he wrote as organist and concertmaster in Weimar; as Kapellmeister in Cöthen; and while freelancing for the courts of Dresden and Berlin.
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Boston's first conductor, Georg Henschel, was trained in Leipzig; the conductor Arthur Nikisch led both orchestras; and Charles Munch, who led the Boston Symphony from 1949 to 1962, was concertmaster in Leipzig from 1926 to 1933.
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In its first readings of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony at Purchase last week — with James E. Ross, in his fourth year as orchestra director, conducting and Ms. Park as a wonderfully assured concertmaster — the NYO-USA sounded fully professional.
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He recorded a video greeting to send the Met musicians on Thursday morning, and in a video chat that the company arranged with Mr. Nézet-Séguin, David Chan, the orchestra's concertmaster, brought up the elephant in the room.
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Mr. Vanska, who appointed more than 40 percent of the current players, plans to continue to live in the area with his wife, Erin Keefe, the orchestra's concertmaster, and expects to return for concerts after he steps down.
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The Metropolitan Opera announced Thursday that its next concertmaster would be the young Canadian violinist Nikki Chooi, who has appeared with orchestras around the world and played last season with the eclectic, genre-bending string trio Time for Three.
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Along with dancers from City Ballet, the program features Ted Wiprud, the vice president of education at the New York Philharmonic, as moderator; Kurt Nikkanen, a City Ballet orchestra concertmaster; and Susan Walters, a solo pianist at City Ballet.
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Mr. Chooi was hired with the input of James Levine, who stepped down as the Met's music director at the end of the season to become music director emeritus — and will be the first new concertmaster in the post-Levine era.
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This year, the Vienna Philharmonic received the estate of a former concertmaster, Franz Mairecker, who maintained correspondence with players such as the cellist Friedrich Siegfried Buxbaum, a member of the Rosé Quartet in British exile, as well as Holocaust victims.
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The classical music world's reckoning with sexual misconduct and abuse continued on Friday when the Cleveland Orchestra suspended the violinist William Preucil, its concertmaster of more than two decades, while it investigates accusations that he sexually assaulted a violin student in 1998.
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He knows how ensembles work from the inside: Mr. van Zweden was a violinist before he was a conductor, and at the age of 19 he became the youngest concertmaster in the history of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, where he remains well known.
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Up to 70 percent of the Nairobi Orchestra is now made up of K.N.Y.O. alumni (as well as a few former S.Y.O. and Ghetto Classics members), including the current concertmaster, David Ralak, who in September performed with the Chineke Orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall.
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The orchestra fired the violinist William Preucil, its concertmaster of more than two decades, and Massimo La Rosa, its principal trombonist, after an investigation concluded that they had engaged in sexual misconduct and sexually harassing behavior with multiple women over a period of years.
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The company has of late sometimes had to resort to extraordinary measures when Mr. Levine conducted — with the orchestra looking to the concertmaster for guidance, soloists looking at the prompter's box, and the chorus being led by Donald Palumbo, the chorus master, from the wings.
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If you search out the first movement of "Summer" from its Berlin Classics live version of "The Four Seasons" (with its concertmaster, Shunske Sato, as soloist), you may well find the Allegro non molto tempo too fast at times, however colorfully characterized and undeniably exciting.
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With the exception of a smaller-scale indoor concert in Staten Island on Sunday, the program, presented in a different borough daily from Tuesday to Friday, includes gems by Saint-Saëns, Bernstein and Rimsky Korsakov (including his "Scheherazade," which will feature the Philharmonic concertmaster Frank Huang).
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In "Sovvente il sole," from "Andromeda Liberata," Ms. Galou's placid vocal line was joined by an ornate violin solo, which the concertmaster Alessandro Tampieri played with a sweet and zesty sound — and, once again, with the exquisite rhythmic spontaneity that seems to be the hallmark of this excellent ensemble.
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The Cleveland Orchestra fired the violinist William Preucil, its concertmaster, and Massimo La Rosa, its principal trombonist, last fall after an investigation concluded that they had engaged in sexual misconduct and sexually harassing behavior with multiple women (including some described as "colleagues," and one who was described as an "orchestra colleague").
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With no feared music director to impress, and no visiting guest conductor to get to know, an easy collegiality emanated from the stage as they played string-heavy crowd favorites: Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and his Violin Concerto No. 3 (with Sheryl Staples, the principal associate concertmaster, as the soloist), and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.
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The icy-hot sweep of the strings is a particular glory of this ensemble — Alexi Kenney, a young star violinist, played as a guest in the orchestra's currently empty concertmaster chair — but the Mahler symphony showcased superb work from every section: the incantatory trumpet solo of the opening; sculpted and tender horn solos later on; warm winds; alert and subtle percussion.
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Scully, rumored to be reluctant to relinquish his position as concertmaster of the chamber orchestra, despite his illness, is playing now not so aggressively, as if willing to cede the spotlight to his companion violinist, as if thrice-weekly dialysis had rendered him something less than what he'd been but something more as well: with a crystalline transparency where once he was opaque, elusive.
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Breaux, P. Williams) Production: Frank Ocean and Pharrell Williams Keyboards: Pharrell Williams Drum Programming: Pharrell Williams Bass: Pharrell Williams String Arrangement: Jon Brion and Benjamin Wright Additional Vocals: Beyonce Knowles-Carter Violin: Eric Gorfain (Concertmaster), Daphne Chen, Marisa Kuney, Charlie Bisharat, Katie Sloan, Songa Lee, Gina Kronstadt, Lisa Dondlinger, Terry Glenny, Chris Woods, Neel Hammond, Marcy Vaj and Crystal Alforque Viola: Leah Katz, Rodney Wirtz, Stefan Smith and Adriana Zoppo Cello: John Krovoza, Simon Huber, Ginger Murphy, Alisha Bauer and Stefanie Fife Strings recorded by Greg Keller and Eric Caudieux at Henson Recording *Beyonce appears courtesy of Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records 4.
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Breaux) Production: Frank Ocean, Malay Ho and Jon Brion Arrangement: Alex Giannascoli, Austin Feinstein and Jon Brion String Arrangement: Jon Brion Guitars: Alex Giannascoli, Austin Feinstein and Malay Ho Keyboards: Jon Brion Programming: Frank Ocean Violin: Eric Gorfain (Concertmaster), Daphne Chen, Marisa Kuney, Charlie Bisharat, Katie Sloan, Songa Lee, Gina Kronstadt, Lisa Dondlinger, Terry Glenny, Chris Woods, Neel Hammond, Marcy Vaj and Crystal Alforque Viola: Leah Katz, Rodney Wirtz, Stefan Smith and Adriana Zoppo Cello: John Krovoza, Simon Huber, Ginger Murphy, Alisha Bauer and Stefanie Fife Strings recorded by Greg Keller and Eric Caudieux at Henson Recording 8.
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Breaux) Production: Frank Ocean, Malay Ho and Om'mas Keith Arrangement: Malay Ho, Om'mas Keith and Jon Brion String Arrangement: Jon Brion Guitars: Malay Ho Drum Production: Malay And Om'mas Keith Bass: Buddy Ross Violin: Eric Gorfain (Concertmaster), Daphne Chen, Marisa Kuney, Charlie Bisharat, Katie Sloan, Songa Lee, Gina Kronstadt, Lisa Dondlinger, Terry Glenny, Chris Woods, Neel Hammond, Marcy Vaj and Crystal Alforque Viola: Leah Katz, Rodney Wirtz, Stefan Smith and Adriana Zoppo Cello: John Krovoza, Simon Huber, Ginger Murphy, Alisha Bauer and Stefanie Fife Strings recorded by Greg Keller and Eric Caudieux at Henson Recording 12.
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He became second concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1971. In 1973, he emigrated to Israel, where he became concertmaster of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. In 1974, Borok emigrated to the United States, to take the post of associate concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In parallel, he was concertmaster of the Boston Pops.
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After his graduation in 1954, Suske became first principal viola player and later concertmaster at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 1962 he became first concertmaster at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, from where he returned to Leipzig in 1977 as first concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra at Kurt Masur's request. At the same time, Suske was concertmaster of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra nine times from 1991 to 2000, and he was also repeatedly appointed by the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo as guest concertmaster.
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Black held standard violin positions in NBC Symphony and Casals Festival. He was assistant concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony before becoming concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra.
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The New Century Chamber Orchestra is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1992, the first music director and concertmaster were Stuart Canin. The orchestra has also been directed and led by concertmaster Krista Bennion Feeney. The current music director and concertmaster are Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
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After his departure, he served as concertmaster of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He was concertmaster for the Tampere Philharmonic from 2010 to 2015. Prior to joining the Pacific Symphony, he was most recently Concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Kim has performed as a soloist with major orchestras in China, Korea, and Japan.
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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.
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Richards was the concertmaster of Anne Murray's orchestra for fifteen years.
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Oscar Levant described the orchestra as having constituted "a school for concertmasters"; among its members were Frederic Fradkin (concertmaster of the Boston Symphony), Maximilian Pilzer (concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic), Ilya Skolnik (concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony), and Louis Edlin (concertmaster of the National Orchestral Association).Oscar Levant, A Smattering of Ignorance (1940), Doubleday, pp. 27-28. Film music conductors Nikolai Sokoloff, Nathaniel ShilkretShilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005, p. 14.
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Singer ultimately left the orchestra he had built, over a controversy that divided the organization. His attempt to bring in a new concertmaster led to a stand-off between the union and the artistic freedom of a conductor. The concertmaster that Singer wanted replaced – Hugh Winchester Ewart (1924–2017), who had held the position since 1950 – was, in 1973, pressured to surrender his chair, and he declined a demotion offer to become associate concertmaster. Soon thereafter, still in 1973, a new concertmaster, Michael Foxman, was appointed.
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The duo is best known for their interpretation of Beethoven's Complete Piano and Violin Sonatas and has performed this program in the United States and Canada. On July 2, 2007, Kawasaki was named Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Kawasaki is only the second Concertmaster in the orchestra's history. He succeeds founding Concertmaster Walter Prystawski, who led the orchestra for 37 years.
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Geoffrey Trabichoff is Concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic. He is the former concertmaster of the BBC Scottish Symphony and former leader of the Paragon Ensemble of Scotland. Geoffrey has broadcast numerous concertos for the BBC. He has been guest concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic and the London Symphony as well as the Northern Sinfonia, BBC Welsh and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras.
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Since 2001, she has been a deputy concertmaster of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. She has held the position of a concertmaster for two seasons. She participated in many international festivals with the ethno band "Ognjen and Friends".
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The Zagreb Soloists () is a chamber orchestra founded in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1953 through the auspices of Zagreb Radiotelevision, under the artistic leadership of the Italian cellist and conductor, Antonio Janigro. After Janigro left the ensemble in 1968, the group was led first by their concertmaster, Dragutin Hrdjok, and then by their longtime artistic director and concertmaster, Tonko Ninić. In 1997, Anđelko Krpan became concertmaster, and in 2002, Karlo Slobodan Fio, took over as artistic director of the ensemble. Since 2006, the concertmaster and artistic leader has been Borivoj Martinic-Jercic.
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Böhlau Verlag, Cologne among others 2015, , {, here . and had to abandon his studies in 1944. Afterwards he worked as Concertmaster in the Berlin Doctors' and Lawyers' Orchestra. After the Second World War he became 2nd concertmaster in the .
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In 1998, Kim was hired as concertmaster for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, in Tucson, Arizona, but did not assume the position due to a "combination of immigration problems and better offers." Instead, Kim joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra as 3rd Associate Concertmaster. Two years later he became the orchestra's concertmaster. In 2005, he was fired from the Hong Kong Philharmonic for auditioning for an American orchestra while on sick leave.
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Horst Sannemüller (25 March 1918 – 12 September 2001) was a German violinist and concertmaster.
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The music festival was initiated by concertmaster Stig Nilsson of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Alexander Barantschik (born 1953) joined the San Francisco Symphony as Concertmaster in September 2001, having served as Concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Born in St. Petersburg, after training at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, he performed with various Soviet orchestras, including the St Petersburg Philharmonic, before emigrating in 1979 to become concertmaster of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. He was concertmaster of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic from 1982–2001 and leader of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1989-2001. He moved to the United States in 2001 at the request of San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas.
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He served as Interim Associate Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2002–2003), and was guest concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 2003. He has two daughters, Emma (2000), and Izzie (2004). They both played violin for many years.
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Aubrey Murphy is an Irish violinist who is Concertmaster of the Cleveland Opera Theater and Opera Project Columbus. Murphy was previously Concertmaster of the Opera Australia (OA) orchestra in Sydney, Australia and was Principal Violinist for the Royal Opera House Orchestra, London, UK.
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He also served as concertmaster of the Mannheim Chamber and Hanover State Orchestras in Germany.
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One year later she became concertmaster of the European Union Youth Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin.
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David Halen (born 1959) is an American violinist and concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony.
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In 1983, Barbini was appointed concertmaster of the Sacramento Symphony, and in 1984 he joined the Sacramento State University music department. Barbini serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as music director of the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento, and as concertmaster of the Ariel Ensemble. Barbini is also concertmaster for Chico Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Pro Art Symphony and Classical Philharmonic. He has also performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
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In 2006 she was invited to join the Animato Fundacion International Youth Orchestra as the concertmaster, conducted by Ralph Weikert. In October and November 2006, she had the honour of performing with the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich as the 2nd concertmaster, conducted by David Zinman.
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The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1949. Former concertmaster, the late Olive Short, mother of Tony and Emmy Award winning comic actor Martin Short, was the first female concertmaster in North America. She died in 1970, five years after being diagnosed with cancer.
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He served as the concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in the 2004-2005 season.
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As of 2015, she was still concertmaster for the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. She died in 2016.
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The orchestra's Chief Executive and Artistic Director is Bongani Tembe and its Concertmaster is Hristo Kardjiev.
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Lincoln furthered her skills under Sol Marcosson, a concertmaster of the early Cleveland Symphony Orchestra (CSO).
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In July 2012, Murphy resigned his post as Concertmaster of the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.
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Jean-Baptiste Volumier (ca. 1670 - 7 October 1728) was an eighteenth century violinist, composer and concertmaster.
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Koeckert was born in Velké Březno near Aussig, Bohemia. Until 1938 Koeckert studied in the master class of the Prague Conservatory and was concertmaster of the German Philharmonic Orchestra Prague from 1939 to 1945, which moved to Bamberg after the Second World War and took the name Bamberg Symphony. Koeckert was concertmaster there from 1946 to 1947. He then moved to Munich, where he was concertmaster of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks for 30 years from 1949.
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In 1960 he became concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and toured the US with them, although he had not been officially cleared by the US immigration department. Staryk was the first Canadian concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1963 to 1967. He returned to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1982, serving as concertmaster until 1986. Keetbaas became the principal flautist for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra from 1953 to 1968.
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The score for Superman, composed and conducted by John Williams, was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, with John Georgiadis as concertmaster. Recording took place on July 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, September 9, 10, 11, October 6 (Irvine Arditti, concertmaster), 15, 24, 31 (Richard Studt, concertmaster), and November 4, 1978, at the Anvil Studios in Denham, Bucks, England. Source music was recorded on July 17. The recording engineer was Eric Tomlinson, assisted by Alan Snelling.
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Antonio Gianettini (also Giannettini, Zanettini, Zannettini; 1648 – 12 July 1721) was an Italian organist, concertmaster and composer.
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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 term in 2017-18; he shares his role with David Chan."Yannick Nézet-Séguin Appoints Benjamin Bowman as new Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra", Metropolitan Opera Official Website, February 26, 2018."Violinist Benjamin Bowman named Metropolitan Opera Orchestra concertmaster", The Strad, June 7, 2017.
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Karl Klingler (7 December 1879 - 18 March 1971) was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer.
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Schwarz, p. 414Auer, 1980, p. 2 Kohne was concertmaster of the orchestra of the National Opera.Auer, 1923, p.
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Wilma Smith (born 1956) is a Fijian-born violinist. She was born in Suva, Fiji and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She has been concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and co-concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia from 2003-2014. She plays a 1761 Guadagnini violin.
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In 2005, she joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as first associate concertmaster, a position she continues to hold in 2020.
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Sabina Rakcheyeva (, born 1976, Baku) is an Azerbaijani violinist, soloist, concertmaster and a member of the European Cultural Parliament.
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As lieutenant, Du Puy could no longer perform on stage, but continued as concertmaster, violinist and giving singing lessons.
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Bossert attended the Eastman School of Music for both her undergraduate and graduate work, earning her Masters in Violin Performance in 1992. During her time at Eastman, she was both pupil and teaching assistant to Charles Castleman. Also in 1992, Bossert tied for the Bronze Medal in the First International Henryk Szeryng Violin Competition. Between 1994 and 1997 she held associate concertmaster, guest concertmaster, and concertmaster positions in orchestras including the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and Intermountain Chamber Orchestra.
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Stuart Canin served as New Century's first Music Director from 1992 to 1999. A former Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera, Canin currently serves as Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Opera under Music Director James Conlon and General Director Plácido Domingo. He also served as Concertmaster of the New Japan Philharmonic in the 1990s, performing and touring under Seiji Ozawa and Mstislav Rostropovich. Mr. Canin was born in New York City and studied at Juilliard, where his principal teacher was Ivan Galamian.
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Toccata Press, London 2010, , . After the engagement of the second concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), Wilfried Hanke, to the Hamburg State Theatre, Wilhelm Furtwängler invited him as guest concertmaster on the foreign tour of his orchestra to England.Elgin Strub: Skizzen einer Künstlerfamilie in Weimar. J. E. Ronayne, London 1999, , p. 64f.
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The concertmaster of Philharmonischen Orchester Landestheater Coburg Ralph Braun says the significance of Drewes has not been known until today.
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In 1802, he became successor to his deceased uncle Joseph Benda, who was a concertmaster at the Hofkapelle in Berlin.
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Burgin was appointed concertmaster of the BSO in 1920 when Pierre Monteux was the principal conductor, and assistant conductor in 1927 early in Serge Koussevitzky's tenure as principal conductor (1924-1949). He conducted the BSO in 308 concerts in the United States, Australia and Japan, and was associate conductor for seven world premieres and 25 Boston premieres. He continued as concertmaster through Charles Munch's tenure as principal conductor (1949-1962), retiring in 1962 when Munch went back to Europe to conduct until his death in 1968.New York Times, obituary, "Richard Burgin, Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony, Dead," May 1, 1981, page B38 Earlier, he had been concertmaster of the Leningrad Symphony, Helsinki Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic and Stockholm Concert Society.
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She was the first female concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She was concertmaster of the California Philharmonic Orchestra, and principal second violin in the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. She was a guest soloist with orchestras in southern California, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She was on the faculty of California State University, Long Beach.
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The Duke, admitting defeat, lets Bach go free. The film ends with Bach and Frederick, who has decided to play music like Bach, playing for a crowd. The Duke and concertmaster, representing the Old Guard, sit dejectedly near the crowd and the Duke states that he still liked the "Old Hymns" and the concertmaster agrees.
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Megerlin was born in Antwerp, Belgium and trained at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he graduated in 1900. He became the concertmaster at the Vlaamse Opera and played with the Orchestre Lamoureux. In 1917 he became the concertmaster and first violinist of the New York Philharmonic under Josef Stránský when he replaced Maximilian Pilzer.
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Granat is a former assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and concertmaster of the Pacific Symphony. He is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and a recipient of the Ysaye Medal. Granat has been a frequent participant of the Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festival. A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Gothenburg, Seoul National University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California.
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On 1 September 2014, Golka married Anna Kostyuchek, associate concertmaster of the Riverside Philharmonic. The couple reside in Los Angeles, California.
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Francisco Miralles was also concertmaster of castanets and recorded several albums with the Aerophone label, where he performed his own compositions.
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In 1998 Harding was appointed as conjoint professor of the Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle, and was awarded a Doctor of Music honoris causa. He became guest co-concertmaster, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2002. In 2004 he was artistic director of the Australian National Academy of Music. He was appointed concertmaster, West Australian Symphony Orchestra in 2005.
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Maximilian Pilzer in 1917 Photo for a book explaining the instruments of the symphony orchestra as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Maximilian Pilzer (February 26, 1890 – May 30, 1958) was a conductor and violinist. He was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic orchestra from 1915-17.Anne Mischakoff Heiles, America’s Concertmasters (Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2007).
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In 1768, he became the concertmaster of the Zweibrücken court orchestra, where he remained until 1772. He was highly respected by his contemporaries and achieved international recognition as an accomplished composer, bassoonist, and concertmaster during his lifetime. Eichner, however, died young and was quickly forgotten. To musicologists, he is known as a representative of the Mannheim School.
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He was concertmaster of the Miami Symphony Orchestra, the youngest concertmaster in the orchestra's history. Măcelaru further continued his music studies at Rice University, where he developed his interest in conducting. His mentors included Larry Rachleff. Additionally, whilst at Rice, he conducted the Houston Youth Orchestra, and was a violinist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra for two seasons.
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Sara Katarina Trobäck Hesselink (born 1978) is a Swedish violinist. Since 2002, she has been first concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Carl Cannabich Carl August Konrad Cannabich (christened on 11 October 1771 – 1 May 1806) was a German composer, violinist, concertmaster and music director.
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Ferenc Jancsin (2 April 1912, Budapest – 2002) was a Hungarian classical violinist and music educator, and the concertmaster of the Hungarian State Opera.
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Palermo Concertmaster Salvatore Greco Salvatore Greco (born Palermo, 1964) is an Italian violinist, leader of the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo, Palermo since 1991.
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In 2015 Hebel began as Concertmaster and violin soloist with George Benson joining Benson on tour at venues and jazz festivals throughout Europe.
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Currently, she is teaching at Bilkent University, in Turkey. She is also the assistant concertmaster of the prestigious Bilkent Symphony Orchestra of Turkey.
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Jezierski, p. 17. He served as the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1884-1908.Polish Music Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 12.
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Violinist From 1954–55, Brusilow was concertmaster and assistant conductor of the New Orleans Symphony under Alexander Hilsberg (1897–1961). From 1955–59, he was associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. And from 1959 to 1966, he was concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. Acclaimed recordings featuring Brusilow with the Philadelphia Orchestra include Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben. While serving as concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Brusilow founded in 1961, and from 1961–65, conducted the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, an organization composed of musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra. But December 1964, Brusilow announced his resignation as concertmaster, effective June 1966, over a dispute with the Orchestra Association forbidding players from forming independent musical groups. Conductor Brusilow, in 1965, founded, and from 1965–68, directed and conducted the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, which performed two and one-half 34-week seasons and recorded six records on RCA Victor. In 1968, the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia folded under financial duress, attributed mostly to a lack of philanthropic support for a second orchestra in Philadelphia.
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His violin teachers have included Dorothy DeLay, Kurt Sassmansshaus, Piotr Milewski, and Martin Chalifour. A ten-year alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival, Mark served as concertmaster of both the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Concert Orchestra under such esteemed conductors as James Conlon, Junichi Hirokami, and Murry Sidlin. While in Los Angeles, Mark has been guest concertmaster for the Riverside County Philharmonic, the New West Symphony, the Pasadena Pops, and the Culver City Chamber Orchestra. He has also recorded for over 500 movie & television soundtracks, most prominently as concertmaster and solo violinist for the award-winning shows House of Cards and Penny Dreadful.
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Florian Deuter studied violin in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1987 he joined the ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln under the direction of Reinhard Goebel, where he was concertmaster from 1994 to 2000. He has also held the position of concertmaster with ensembles and orchestras including the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh, La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, and Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski, and has appeared as soloist and concertmaster with ensembles including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, the European Baroque Orchestra, and Concerto Köln.Die Künstler, Harmonie Universelle, retrieved 15 September 2020 .
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Armen Anassian holds master's degrees in Instrumental Conducting and Violin Performance, and studied in the United States, Armenia, and Germany. His teachers include Rainer Kussmaul, Sidney Weiss, Dorothy DeLay, and conductor Michael Zearott. Mr. Anassian has held Conducting and/or Concertmaster positions with such noted groups as the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra, Freiburg Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra and the Zelt Musik Festival Orchestra. In Los Angeles he has been Concertmaster/Guest Concertmaster with Pacific Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, California Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops, Burbank Symphony, Riverside Philharmonic, Inland Empire Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Glendale Symphony, Symphony in the Glen and the Los Angeles Opera.
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Israelievitch also performed as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborating with artists such as Carlo Maria Giulini, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Yo-Yo Ma. In 1972, Sir Georg Solti appointed him as assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, making him the youngest member of the orchestra. He then served as concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He served as concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 2008. From 2005 to 2014, Israelievitch served as the music director of the Koffler Chamber Orchestra at the Koffler Centre of the Arts.
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Arnold Black (2 May 1923 – 25 June 2000) was an American violinist and composer. His most senior positions held include assistant concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster at the Baltimore Symphony. In his career as a composer he wrote music particularly for stage productions. Black was notable for maintaining a musical career despite suffering from cerebral palsy from birth.
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Karl/Carl Wendling ([ventling]) (10 August 1875, Strasbourg – 27 March 1962, Stuttgart) was a German violinist and musical educator. He studied in his hometown with Heinrich Schuster and , and later in Berlin with Carl Halir and Joseph Joachim. From 1902 on he was concertmaster at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1907 and 1908, he was concertmaster with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Karl Muck.
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Miss Hodgkins, a student of Boris Sirpo, was Concertmaster of the Portland Chamber Orchestra and the "Little Orchestra" from 1946-1960. Her violin studies began at the age of four with James Eoff. At nine she studied with Eduard Hurlimann, Concertmaster of the Portland Symphony. In 1961 she was accepted into Jascha Heifetz' Master Class at the University of Southern California.
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Rochelle Abramson is a violinist in Los Angeles, California. She is a first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has served as concertmaster of various local orchestras, and currently is concertmaster with the Valley Symphony Orchestra. She joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in its 1978/79 season. She received two individual artist’s grants from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe- Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the ' (palace church), on a monthly schedule. The exact chronological order of Bach's Weimar cantatas remains uncertain. Only four bear autograph dates.
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Thomas Brandis (Hamburg, June 23, 1935 – March 30, 2017) was a German violinist, chamber music performer, pedagogue and former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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David Chan is an American violinist and a concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In recent years he has become active as a conductor.
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It was then purchased by Canadian philanthropist J.W. McConnell, who donated the instrument to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for use by concertmaster Calvin Sieb.
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Ever since he has performed throughout the world as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra and as concertmaster of the legendary Italian ensemble I Musici.
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Dezső Lehota with his instrument Dezső Lehota (7 August 1919 — 15 July 2015, born in Szeged, Hungary) was a Hungarian violinist, concertmaster, and music teacher.
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In 1850 Röntgen became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, in 1869 the second concertmaster and in 1873 he took David's place as first concertmaster of the orchestra. He remained in the orchestra until his death in 1897. He was also a teacher in the Conservatorium. In 1861 he acquired the Lipinski Stradivarius; the violin remained with Röntgen and his descendants for three generations.
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MPO site. Retrieved 2 August 2018 Gerard Salonga was appointed as an additional Resident Conductor in 2018. Markus Gundermann (current principal second violin of the Dresden Philharmonic) was the founding MPO concertmaster from 1998 until 2012, when his contract was not renewed by then-Music Director Claus Peter Flor. Anna Reszniak is the second and last violinist to hold the position of MPO concertmaster.
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The current Concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra is Justin Bruns, Associate Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Other current principal players include Tim Munro (flute); Karen Wagner (oboe); Bharat Chandra (clarinet); Evan Kuhlmann (bassoon); Craig Morris (trumpet); Ava Ordman (trombone); Forrest Byram (tuba); Galen Lemmon (percussion); Nuiko Wadden (harp); Emily Wong (keyboard); Matt Albert (2nd violin); Sam Bergman (viola); Abraham Feder (cello); and Edward Botsford (bass).
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By the end of Nodame Cantabile - Opera Hen, he has proposed to Tanya. : Live action actor: Seiji Fukushi ; :A prodigious violinist Chiaki met at the Nina Lutz's seminar, she joins him to form the R☆S Orchestra as his concertmaster. She also becomes Mine's girlfriend. In all media, she had studied abroad in Vienna and had received private tutoring from the Berlin Philharmonics concertmaster, Kai Dowin.
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Gilbert's long association with Santa Fe Opera dates back to 1993, when he served as the orchestra's assistant concertmaster. Prior to that, both of Gilbert's parents played in the opera's orchestra, and his father served as concertmaster for a number of years. In 2001, Gilbert conducted his first Santa Fe Opera production, Verdi's Falstaff. In 2003, he became Santa Fe Opera's first music director.
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BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney is in his 19th season with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, after 12 seasons in the same position with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in New Jersey, Mr. Carney hails from a musical family with all six members having graduated from The Juilliard School. After completing his studies with Ivan Galamian and Christine Dethier, he was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to continue his studies in London at the Royal College of Music. After enjoying critically acclaimed international tours as both concertmaster and soloist with numerous ensembles, Mr. Carney was invited by Vladimir Ashkenazy to become concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1991.
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Richard Rood (born 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American violinist based in New York City. Rood is one of the co-Concertmasters of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, a 1st violinist of the New York City Opera, the Associate Concertmaster of the Santa Fe Opera, and Concertmaster of the Performance Santa Fe Orchestra. He is also a Principal player with the American Symphony Orchestra and a member of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra. He has performed with The New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and has appeared as Concertmaster of Los Angeles Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Collegiate Choral.
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He studied from 1986 with Sigiswald Kuijken and graduated as a soloist three years later. From 1987, he has performed as concertmaster in several Baroque orchestras in Europe and Japan, including Les Arts Florissants, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, La Petite Bande and the Tokyo Bach-Mozart Orchestra. He has been concertmaster of the Bach Collegium Japan which is active in the complete recordings of Bach cantatas, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, playing not only violin, but also viola and viola d'amore. As concertmaster of il Gardellino, he conducted a recording of Bach solo cantatas for bass with Dominik Wörner, such as Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56.
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The current Musical Director of the ensemble is Julian Kytasty. The artistic team is composed of conductor - Vasyl Turyanyn, choirmaster - Pavlo Fondera, and concertmaster - Borys Ostapienko.
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The BSO is currently led by President Brianna Butler, Music Director/Conductor Manny Laureano, Concertmaster Michael Sutton, General Manager Sara Tan, and its board of directors.
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John Harding Hon DMus (born 1950) is an internationally renowned violinist. He has travelled the world as a soloist, teacher, concertmaster, chamber musician, conductor and recording artist.
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Richard Burgin (October 11, 1892 - April 29, 1981) was a Polish-American violinist, best known as associate conductor and the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO).
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Alfonso Mosesti (18 April 1924 – 6 April 2018) was an Italian violinist. He was concertmaster of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and a performer of chamber music.
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He went to the Berliner Gramophone studios in January and February 1900, where at least 13 of his recordings were issued. When a standing orchestra was established at the Edison studios, D'Almaine was made concertmaster. Beginning his association with the Victor company in 1901, he eventually became concertmaster of the house unit, the Victor Orchestra. He also made recordings for Columbia, where sometimes the pseudonym Charles Gordon was used.
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Fränzel finally added some international touch to his musical education in Paris (1787) and Bologna (1788). In 1789 he was named concertmaster of the Munich court orchestra, successor to the Mannheim court orchestra. After only two years in Munich he relocated to Frankfurt am Main (1792) where he assumed the post of concertmaster at the Frankfurt national theatre. During the same time he undertook extended concert tours to England and Russia.
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Leonid Sigal is a Russian violinist and conductor. A graduate from the Moscow Conservatory, Sigal is active in the United States, where he settled as he joined in 1995 the New World Symphony Orchestra. He was appointed the orchestra's Concertmaster, and was trained as a conductor by Michael Tilson Thomas. He subsequently served as an Associate Concertmaster at the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Miami Chamber Symphony's Artistic Director (2001–04).
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Jan Stanienda (born in Bytom) – Polish violinist, chamber musician and concertmaster. He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Professor Krzysztof Jakowicz. Since 1975, Jan Stanienda has been a member of the Polish Chamber Orchestra under Jerzy Maksymiuk, and in 1977 he became its concertmaster and soloist. In 1976 he received a prize at the Niccolo Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa.
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He then returned to Germany and became concertmaster of the in Sondershausen and teacher at the local conservatory. From 1889 to 1891 he was concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and at the same time PrimariusJürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett. Eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte. Vol. 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, , of the Gewandhaus Quartet.
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Bard continued his directorship of the orchestra after the debut. In 1953, Bard invited the Italian violinist and conductor Arrigo Foa to take over the orchestra, and Bard worked as the concertmaster and deputy conductor of the Orchestra. Foa was a professional musician who joined Shanghai Municipal Orchestra as concertmaster in 1919. He succeeded Mario Paci as the conductor of the Shanghai orchestra in 1942, under the Japanese occupation.
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In Switzerland he played as concertmaster in the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet in 1937. In the USA he played as violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1938 to 1944 and as assistant concertmaster in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1944 to 1952. He was first violin teacher at Chicago Musical College. In 1952 he was appointed professor for violin at a university in Lakeland, Florida.
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After finishing his musical studies in Oslo, Stockholm, Wien and København, Fiskum was employed as violinist by Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester in 1960. There he made his debut as a soloist in 1965 and was 2nd concertmaster (1965–73). He established "Det Norske Kammerorkester" in 1977, and later became concertmaster for Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (1977–84). He is now employed as Professor at Department of Music at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1983–).
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In 1949 Bosse became professor at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and in 1951 first concertmaster of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hermann Abendroth. He also received a professorship at the Leipzig Academy of Music. From 1955 to 1987 Bosse was concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the conductors Franz Konwitschny, Václav Neumann and Kurt Masur. From 1955 to 1977 he was Primarius of the Gewandhaus Quartet.
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On his retirement he was appointed Concertmaster Emeritus of the orchestra.Sydney Symphony. Retrieved 14 September 2016 He is also a frequent guest concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Dene Olding is regularly heard as soloist with all the major Australian orchestras and has worked with conductors such as Edo de Waart, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Stuart Challender, Sir Charles Mackerras, Jorge Mester, Günther Herbig, Werner Andreas Albert and David Porcelijn.
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At the Royal Academy of Music, Friend studied under the tutelage of Frederick Grinke. He later studied with Endre Wolf, Menuhin and Szeryng. In 1964 Friend became the youngest ever leader/concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, working closely with Bernard Haitink, Barenboim, Solti and Giulini. In 1975 he was invited by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to be their Concertmaster, playing concerts and recording worldwide with Bernstein, Boulez and Mehta.
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He enrolled in the Graduate School of Harvard University in 1947, completing his Ph.D. in history in 1953, meanwhile serving as concertmaster of the Harvard-Radcliffe Symphony Orchestra.
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"Peter Mountain" The Stage, 4 February 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2020."UK violinist Peter Mountain, former RLPO concertmaster, dies" The Strad, 15 January 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
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As a soloist she performed with every orchestra in Slovenia: the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Music Academy from Ljubljana, SNG Opera and ballet Ljubljana, the Maribor philharmonics, Solisti Piranesi orchestra, Chamber orchestra of Slovenian soloists and the Zagreb symphonic orchestra. Since she was 15, Oksana has performed in all the Slovenian professional orchestras. She has been employed by the Slovenian Philharmonic as the second concertmaster, for the past two years she has been playing as the solo violin and the second concertmaster in the Solisti Piranesi orchestra, led by Primoz Novsak, she is the first concertmaster of the ladies chamber and symphonic orchestra Musidora, and has been the only concertmaster of the chamber and symphonic orchestra of the Music Academy of Ljubljana for the past three years. Oksana has led the 5th symphony by Tchaikovsky, the 1st symphony by Mahler, the 5th symphony by Shostakovich and the 7th symphony by Beethoven.
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Vladimir Koh has been a prominent orchestral violinist in Serbia and abroad. As a principal violinist, concertmaster, acting concertmaster, assistant concertmaster, and guest concertmaster, he has performed with many orchestras in Serbia (Philharmonic Orchestra of Youth, Symphony Orchestra of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Symphony Orchestra of the Radio Television of Belgrade, Symphony Orchestra Stanislav Binički, Chamber Orchestra Simfonijeta, Symphony Orchestra "Camerata Serbica", Orchestra of the Madlenianum Opera and Theatre, Orchestra of the Belgrade Opera (all in Belgrade), Symphony Orchestra of the Radio Television of Pristina, Chamber Orchestra of Novi Sad), Montenegro (Titograd Symphony Orchestra), Spain (Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife, Chamber Orchestra Pro Classica), Italy (Chamber Orchestra Goffredo Petrassi, Rome). As a soloist with those orchestras, he also performed standard violin repertoire (Bach, Mozart, Wieniawski, Sibelius, etc.). Koh has also performed as a chamber musician - as a member of Trio Barocco, string jazz trio and piano jazz quintet, in duo with flutist Sanja Stijačić, etc.
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Ania Safonova is a Russian-Israeli violinist, the Associate Concertmaster of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden . She has recently been appointed as Director of the ManningCamerata Chamber Players.
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Starting in 2004 Gruppman served as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Gruppman is also currently a professor at Codarts, the Rotterdam Conservatoire.Church News, February 24, 2007, p. 6.
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Herbst, Cologne 2000, , . From 1950 to the 1970s he was a member of Hans-Georg Arlt, concertmaster of the film, radio and stage orchestra Berlin.Heiko Bockstiegel: Schmidt-Boelcke conducts.
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5 Auer gave concerts in 1864 as soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra,Auer, 1980, p. 9 invited by concertmaster Ferdinand David, conductor Felix "Mendelssohn's friend."Auer 1923, p.
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BandArt is an independent Spanish orchestra made up of musicians from more than a dozen different countries. Its artistic director is Gordan Nikolić, concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Alfred Eugene Megerlin in 1917 Alfred Eugene Megerlin (June 30, 1880 – February 22, 1941) was a violinist. He was the concertmaster and first violinist of the New York Philharmonic.
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As concertmaster, Nadien was engaged as a soloist with the orchestra frequently and featured in several of Bernstein's "Young People's Concerts." He left the orchestra in 1970 and resumed studio work in New York, which was far more lucrative than the concertmaster post. As a violin teacher, he worked at the Mannes College of Music and taught privately. Nadien owned the "Prince of Orange, Wald, Hoffmann" violin, made by Guarneri del Gesù in about 1743.
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He was frequently concertmaster for Leonard Bernstein's televised "young people's concerts". His performance As concertmaster under Stravinsky's baton of "The rite of spring" is one of those preserved on the gold album carried by the voyager spacecraft. In 1952 Alexander Schneider invited Cohen to join his quartet as second violinist. During Cohen's tenure, the Schneider quartet recorded the first complete set of Joseph Haydn's string quartets, a milestone noted in Time magazine.
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In 1886, at the age of 16, he renounced the Jewish faith and changed his surname Barach to Baré. He studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. and then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Lambert Massart. He then worked in Paris in the late 1890s as concertmaster of the Paris Opera. From 1897 to 1902 he was second concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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An invitation to form the New Zealand String Quartet took her back to Wellington in 1987 and she was first violinist of the quartet until her appointment as Concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1993. During her years with the quartet they toured New Zealand and Australia extensively and performed at the Tanglewood Festival. Prior to her departure for Melbourne, the NZSO honoured her with the title of Concertmaster Emeritus.
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Music Director Tania Miller and the orchestra have released two CDs of music by the Dutch composer Wim Zwaag, including a violin concerto performed by the orchestra's concertmaster Terence Tam.
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His grandson, Mark Robertson, is a graduate of the Juilliard School and a noted musician, producer and concertmaster. His granddaughter Kathryn Woolley is a violinist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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He has been the Hartford Symphony Orchestra's Concertmaster since 2005. Apart from this chairs, he has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Sigal teaches at The Hartt School.
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Guro Kleven Hagen (born 11 May 1994) is a Norwegian violinist raised in Fagernes. She is the 1st concertmaster at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet orchestra since January 2018.
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Karl Thomann (5 June 1900 in Ústí nad Labem 19 July 1950) was a German violinist and music educator. Among other things, he was first concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
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The Ludwig Schuster Quartet was a string quartet from Halle (Saale) active in the 1950s and 1960s. It was named after first violin Ludwig Schuster (concertmaster at the Landestheater Halle).
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Röntgen married Friedericke Pauline Klengel, daughter of , himself concertmaster at the Gewandhaus for many years. They had a son and two daughters; their son Julius Röntgen became a pianist and composer.
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On March 9, 2014, Siemens was concertmaster with the Continuo Arts Symphonic Orchestra and The National Sacred Honor Choir, performing the Mozart Requiem and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, conducted by Brandon Johnson.
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Heinrich August Matthaei, c. 1820 Heinrich August Matthaei (3 October 1781 – 4 November 1835) was a German violinist and composer. He was for many years concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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It includes more than 60 opera and ballet titles by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Weber, Verdi, Wagner, Ponchielli, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Puccini, Gounod, Delibes, Bizet, Borodin, Rimsky–Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiew, Orff, Bulgarian classical and contemporary composers. At the beginning of 2005/06 season Palikarov became managing and artistic director and conductor of the Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, and in September 2008 he became the principal conductor of Classic FM Symphony Orchestra. Palikarov has performed with many soloists including members of Vienna Philharmonic: Albena Danailova (concertmaster), Wolfgang Schulz†, Franz Bartolomey, Dieter Flury, Robert Nagy, Glenn Dicterow (former concertmaster of New York Philharmonic and Svetlin Roussev (concertmaster of the French National Radio Orchestra). Palikarov is a winner of many national and international piano and composition competitions.
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Born in Güstrow, Havemann first learned to play the violin from his father, the military musician Johann Havemann. Even before he attended school, he performed in a concert. After the death of his father, he was further educated by the husband of his sister Frieda, music director Ernst Parlow, the son of Albert Parlow, as well as Bruno Ahner, and played in the court orchestra in Schwerin before he went to the Universität der Künste Berlin in 1898, where one of his important teachers was Joseph Joachim. From 1900 he was concertmaster in Lübeck, in 1905 court concertmaster in Darmstadt and Hamburg, in 1911 he became teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory and was concertmaster at the Dresden court opera from 1915 to 1921.
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He made his European debut touring France with pianist Theodore Lettvin in 1951–1952 in a concert series organized by the National Music League and the Jeunesses Musicales International. Harth performed with major orchestras across the world, and made numerous recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Kraków Radio and Television Orchestra. He was Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Principal Concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and Concertmaster and Assistant Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. An acclaimed conductor, Harth was during his career Principal Conductor of the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in South Africa, and Musical Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Chamber Orchestra of Seattle and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
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Dawn Harms, a cousin of musician Tom Waits, played violin in the group from 2002 until 2004. Harms has collaborated with a number of ensembles, including ten years as first violinist of the Harrington String Quartet and five years with the Santa Fe Opera. She is co- concertmaster of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and concertmaster with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. She is on the faculty of the Music Department at Stanford University.
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Under his direction the Orchestra increased its role as accompanist to the Tabernacle Choir and Temple Square Chorale, but continued to perform on its own under the baton of Igor Gruppman, concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Gruppman was the Orchestra’s concertmaster at the inaugural concert in 1999 and was named conductor of the Orchestra in 2003."Orchestra on Temple Square celebrating 20 years this weekend", ABC 4, 24 October 2019. Retrieved on 5 April 2020.
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Raymond Gniewek (born November 13, 1931 in East Meadow, New York ) is an American violinist. He served as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra for 43 years; upon his appointment in 1957 he was the youngest person to ever hold the post. He has also had a career as a soloist.Biography at the Boston Symphony Orchestra His final performance as concertmaster with the orchestra was a concert performance in Carnegie Hall of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle in 2000.
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He served as concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony for 10 years, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony for 10 years, as well as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and Great Lakes Festival Orchestra. He was appointed as guest concertmaster of the New Japan Philharmonic and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He has performed the world premieres of Dan Welcher's Violin Concerto and John Corigliano's Red Violin Caprices. His recordings are on the Equilibrium, CRI, Delos and Mark Records.
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Funtek spent most of his working life in Finland, where he was conductor of the Finnish Opera. He was concertmaster with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1906 to 1909, and then was orchestra director of the Viipuri orchestra from 1909 to 1910. His most prominent role as a practicing musician was as conductor of the Finnish Opera from 1915 to 1959. He also served as assistant concertmaster for the Stockholm court orchestra from 1916 to 1919.
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Israel Baker (February 11, 1919 – December 25, 2011) was an American violinist and concertmaster. Through a long and varied career he played with many of the greatest figures in the worlds of classical music, jazz and pop. He appeared on hundreds of recordings by artists as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Ella Fitzgerald, and Tom Waits, and appeared on many film scores including Psycho and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. Baker was the concertmaster on The Dameans Beginning Today album from 1973.
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He served as concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic, concertmaster of the Kitchener- Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, and principal violin of the Canadian Chamber Ensemble. He was also a founding member of the Amadeus Ensemble. He taught at York University and has recording credits on several albums. He is the founder and namesake of the non-profit organization The Hammer Band, a charity which provides violins and violin instruction to children living in at-risk communities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Other than being concertmaster of the World Philharmonic Orchestra, Seah has appeared regularly as guest concertmaster with leading orchestras around Asia. Seah is a founding member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and is one of the two remaining pioneer musicians who have witnessed the growth of the orchestra since its inception in 1979. Seah is widely recognised by her colleagues for her professionalism and musicality. She is also looked upon as a mentor and role model.
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László Csupor (1933-2008), woodwind musician, and a former principal of the School of Music of Kaposvár - Dezső Lehota recognized him as a concertmaster and he aided in his studies later on.
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From 1958 to 1960 he was concertmaster of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra. Among his students were among others Arthur Bohnhardt, Georg Hanstedt and Franz Konwitschny. Bassermann died in Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 89.
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Frank-Michael Erben (born 7 September 1965) is a German violinist and conductor. He is the first concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and plays the first violin in the Gewandhaus Quartet.
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Kim is one of 5 artists invited for the inaugural Valade Concertmaster program at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Kim plays the 1701 ex-Dushkin Stradivarius, on permanent loan from a donor.
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Two years later, he became concertmaster of the Weimar Court Orchestra under Liszt's direction.Walker, The Weimar Years, 345. His three years in Weimar left him with poor impressions of Liszt's conducting and compositions.
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"A life lived in harmony Kristina Nilsson: Concertmaster, lawyer, teacher". Boston Globe. Retrieved 3 December 2012 via HighBeam . Clarinetist and conductor Jonathan Cohler served as the orchestra's Musical Director from 1996 to 2006.
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Josef Špaček (born October 17, 1986) is a Czech solo violinist and the concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic orchestra. He plays a violin made in 1855 in the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
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Official website of Freiburg University of Music Simone Zgraggen is concertmaster of the Basel SinfoniettaOfficial website of the Basel Sinfonietta and holds the honorary presidency of the MythenForum Schwyz together with Vladimir Fedoseyev.
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Kaoru Kakudo (1947 – April 15, 2004) was a violinist, born in Japan, who performed internationally in recital and solo orchestral appearances. She was a concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands.
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Auer was born in Veszprém, Hungary, 7 June 1845.Fifield, Christopher, in Oxford Companion to Music, Alison Latham, ed., Oxford University Press, 2003 p. 70 He first studied violin with a local concertmaster.
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Frajese, Charles."Bolzoni, Giovanni", Encyclopedia Trecanni, Biographical Italian Dictionary, Vol. 11 (1969). In 1887, he became director of the Istituto Musicale, concertmaster at the Teatro Regio di Parma and of the Concerti Popolari.
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He was a member of the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C. from 1954–1960 and became principal (concertmaster) in 1957. He toured North and South America and played for White House occasions.
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Miguel Borrego (born in Madrid, 1971) is a Spanish violinist. He serves together with Mariana Todorova Roeva as the concertmaster of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the Arbós Trio.
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He is also the co-concertmaster of the Mito Chamber Orchestra and Saito Kinen Orchestra. He took over as concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa for the 2007-2008 season. An active chamber musician, Kawasaki is a founding member of the D'Amici String Quartet along with world-renowned musicians Federico Agostini, James Creitz and Sadao Harada giving critically acclaimed performances and master classes in Europe and Japan. Kawasaki maintains a duo as well with Russian-born pianist Vadim Serebryany.
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Donald Hazelwood first played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1952, as a second violinist under Eugene Goossens. In 1965 he was appointed co-concertmaster with Robert Miller, later becoming concertmaster, a position he held for 33 years until his retirement in 1998. From 1988 to 1989 Donald Hazelwood was Artistic Director of the National Ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. From 1989 to 1991 and in 1996 he was Director of the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp.
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Born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1935, Brandis trained as a violinist in Hamburg and later in London with Max Rostal. After winning the first of the International ARD Competition he was concertmaster in Hamburg, moving later to Berlin to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. He became concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic at age 26, and served in the position until 1983. In 1976 he founded the Brandis-Quartet, which has performed virtually in all major festivals in Europe, Japan and the Americas.
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Whilst she studied in Minsk, from 1989, she became a piano teacher and concertmaster in Novopolotsk State Musical College in Novopolotsk. She was granted the higher pedagogical and concertmaster categories in 1993. She worked from 1989 to 2010 at Novopolotsk State Musical College and prepared 40 students including her daughter, Yulia Starostenkova, to enter the Belarusian State Academy of Music, and at other musical superior institutions and colleges in Russia and Belarus. Yulia Starostenova won 2nd prize at Chopin republican contest in 2005.
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He was the concertmaster of Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste and Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia as well as on the first desk of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano.Annuario dell'opera lirica in Italia. EDT/CIDIM, 2004. Presently Emmanuele Baldini is a concertmaster at São Paulo State Symphonic Orchestra (OSESP) and also leader and founder of the OSESP Quartet (with second violin Davi Graton, violist Peter Pas and cellist Ilia Laporev).
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In 1966, following the resignation of Anshel Brusilow, Carol joined the Philadelphia Orchestra by invitation of longtime conductor Eugene Ormandy to be his concertmaster. Carol remained in Philadelphia for 29 years serving as concertmaster for Ormandy, Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Following a strike, Carol's first solo performance with the orchestra was of the Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, which was also the last concerto he was scheduled to perform before a lingering shoulder injury cut his orchestral career short in 1994.
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A native of Columbia, Concertmaster Mary Lee Taylor Kinosian, of the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, began studying music at five and joined the Columbia Philharmonic Orchestra (later the S.C. Philharmonic) at fourteen. She enjoyed a successful career in San Jose, Calif. (with the San Jose Symphony, Midsummer Mozart Festival and as concertmaster and soloist with the Redwood Symphony) and Nashville, Tenn. (as principal second violin with Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville String Machine) before returning to Columbia in 1996.
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In 1940 Mehta founded the Bombay String Quartet. He spent five years in New York City studying with eminent violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian, and earned degrees from the University of Bombay and Trinity College of Music in London. He moved to the United States in 1945, where he studied violin in New York. In 1955 Mehli Mehta moved to England, where he served for five years as Assistant Concertmaster and Concertmaster of the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester under Sir John Barbirolli.
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Soon after his future wife, Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman, whom he had known at Moscow Central Music School and at Moscow Conservatory, also came to the United States, they were married. Igor Gruppman was the concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony from 1988 to 1995. He also was concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 1998. He was Associate Conductor of the Florida PhilharmonicTaylor, Rebecca M. "The Orchestra at Temple Square: Lifting Spirits Through Music", Ensign, December 2000, pp. 67–68.
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3, No. 2, Summer, 2003. See also WQXR-FM, Anthony Cheung. violinist Juliana Athayde, Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic; Noah Bendix-Balgley, First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic; Nicholas Schwartz, Double Bassist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Philip Munds, Principal French Horn of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Nathan Chan, Cellist of the Seattle Symphony; Christina Smith, Principal Flute of the Atlanta Symphony; Teddy Abrams, Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra; and Tim Genis, Principal Timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.San Francisco Symphony.
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The section leader (or principal) of a string section is also responsible for determining the bowings, often based on the bowings set out by the concertmaster. In some cases, the principal of a string section may use a slightly different bowing than the concertmaster, to accommodate the requirements of playing their instrument (e.g., the double-bass section). Principals of a string section will also lead entrances for their section, typically by lifting the bow before the entrance, to ensure the section plays together.
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From 1903 he taught as professor at the .Bram Eldering on Deutsche Biographie One of his students was Theo Giesen, who later became first concertmaster of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, then founding member and first concertmaster of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (KRSO) later called WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. He also became first violinist in the Gürzenich Quartet founded by Gustav Hollaender in 1888, to which Carl Körner, Josef Schwartz and belonged. As the Bram-Eldering Quartet, the ensemble achieved world fame.
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Madeleine Carruzzo first received guitar lessons and later came to the violin. She graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Detmold where she studied under Tibor Varga. After studying, she applied to the Zurich Chamber Orchestra as the concertmaster and to the Berlin Philharmonic as an ensemble member. While she was rejected in Switzerland, because at that time a female was not wanted in the position of concertmaster, she received an invitation from the Berlin Philharmonic to an audition on 23 June 1982.
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She is the leader and founder of the Jade String Quartet, one of the few professional chamber music groups in Singapore. In April 1996, Seah was invited to represent Singapore in the World Philharmonic Orchestra at Bangkok, Thailand, for the King's 50th Anniversary of his ascension under the baton of Maestro Myung-Whun Chung. She was appointed as assistant concertmaster then. In June 2006, Seah once again represented Singapore as assistant concertmaster in the World Philharmonic Orchestra at Paris, France.
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She completed her development with Otakar Ševčík (1927–28) and George Enescu (1932–34). In the years 1932–1934 she was the concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, and following this in 1937 became the second concertmaster of the Warsaw Philharmonic. At the same time, she was first violin in the string quartet of the Warsaw music society and member of the Polish string quartet. Playing in a duo with Karol Szymanowski she influenced similar compositions.
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Mr. Canin won the International Paganini Competition in Genoa and the Handel Medal from the city of New York. He served as Concertmaster in Hollywood for studio orchestras, performing on such films as Schindler's List, Titanic and Forrest Gump. Mr. Canin was scheduled return to the NCCO in April 2008 to lead a program of Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, and Mozart. A native of Menlo Park, California, Krista Bennion Feeney served as New Century's Music Director and Concertmaster from 1999 to 2006.
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Gustav Mahler was his brother- in-law. Although not known internationally as a soloist he was a great orchestral leader (concertmaster) and player of chamber music, leading the famous Rosé Quartet for several decades.
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The principal first violin is called the concertmaster (or "leader" in the UK) and is considered the leader of not only the string section, but of the entire orchestra, subordinate only to the conductor.
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At one time, Lewis was Concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony. In 1959 Lewis received a Fulbright Scholarship to study music in Munich, Germany, where he and his family lived for about 10 months.
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She moved to Los Angeles in 1941 to begin playing in Hollywood studios for Paramount, United Artists and RKO. She was the first female concertmaster in any studio orchestra, beginning at RKO and Paramount.
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Besides this work, he also taught in the Teacher Training College of Kaposvár. Outside of teaching, he fulfilled concertmaster duties in the Gergely Csiki Theatre.Critique by Tamás Nagy (Nagy Tamás kritikája), in: Somogyi Néplap 1956.02.29.
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Gene Orloff (born 1922 or 1923 – died March 23, 2009"Requiem: Gene Orloff" in Allegro, Volume CX No. 4 April, 2010 Retrieved 27 September 2013.) was an American violinist, concertmaster, arranger, contractor and session musician.
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Clebanoff was also an accomplished concertmaster. By the young age of 20, Clebanoff had already achieved the status of Concert Master for the Chicago Civic Orchestra's, as well as being the Chicago Symphony's youngest member.
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Ignace Jang (born 1969) is a South Korean and French violinist and is a grand and jury prize recipient. He is concertmaster of the Hawaii Symphony and teaches at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.
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In the Edwards, Martin, Milhaud and Barber recordings, he used the A. E. Smith violin he inherited from a previous Sydney Symphony concertmaster, Ernest Llewellyn. He has conducted the Sydney Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
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Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra () was founded on December 25, 2007 and completed its establishment on April 20, 2009, with Deng Jingshan as the President, Yang Yang as the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor, Guan Haochuan and Lin Shangzhuan as the Vice President. Besides, Ning Feng, the famous violinist, and Qin Liwei (Chinese: 秦立巍), the famous cellist, are the Resident Artists of the Orchestra while Xue Biao is the Concertmaster and Xu Weiling the Guest Concertmaster. There are totally 80 musicians including several foreign performers.
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Jehin-Prume played a major role in the development of the Montreal music scene from the 1870s through the 1890s. He was active as a chamber musician in concerts of string quartets and trios. He was a close friend and collaborator of Calixa Lavallée under whom he served as concertmaster in a 58-piece orchestra during the late 1870s. He was the first concertmaster of the Montreal Philharmonic Society and served as the president of the Académie de musique du Québec in 1877-1878.
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He performed with many distinguished musicians, such as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice André, Michala Petri, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Krzysztof Jakowicz, János Starker, Barbara Hendricks, Maurice Bourge, Lidia Grzanka-Urbaniak, Guy Touvron, Andrei Gridchuk, Grzegorz Nowak, Tadeusz Wojciechowski and Krzysztof Jablonski. He was the concertmaster of Sinfonia Varsovia in 1986–1990 and before that he was the concertmaster of the Polish Chamber Orchestra. He was the artistic director of the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra in 1992–1995www.leopoldinum.art.pl and has been the artistic director of the Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra since 1996.
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Retrieved 30 October 2018.Ricordo di un grande violinista estense.com. Retrieved 30 October 2018. He studied further with Giuseppe Prencipe and George Enescu at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. From 1954 he was concertmaster of the RAI Orchestra in Rome, and later of the RAI Orchestra in Naples; from 1964 he was concertmaster of the RAI Orchestra in Turin. He often played concertos with the orchestra, and in 1977 he gave the first performance of the recently discovered Concerto in D by Gaetano Pugnani.
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The concertmaster leads the pre-concert tuning and handles musical aspects of orchestra management, such as determining the bowings for the violins or for all of the string section. The concertmaster usually sits to the conductor's left, closest to the audience. There is also a principal second violin, a principal viola, a principal cello and a principal bass. The principal trombone is considered the leader of the low brass section, while the principal trumpet is generally considered the leader of the entire brass section.
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In the Baroque music era (1600–1750), most orchestras were led by one of the musicians, typically the principal first violin, called the concertmaster. The concertmaster would lead the tempo of pieces by lifting his or her bow in a rhythmic manner. Leadership might also be provided by one of the chord-playing instrumentalists playing the basso continuo part which was the core of most Baroque instrumental ensemble pieces. Typically, this would be a harpsichord player, a pipe organist or a luteist or theorbo player.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co- reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the (palace church), on a monthly schedule. Bach composed the cantata for Easter Sunday in 1715. The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the First letter to the Corinthians, "Christ is our Easter lamb" (), and from the Gospel of Mark, the Resurrection of Jesus ().
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed primary responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the ' (palace church), on a monthly schedule. He likely wrote the work in 1716 for the fourth Sunday of Advent, although it may not have been performed at the time. The prescribed readings for the day were from the Epistle to the Philippians () and the Gospel of John ().
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In 1895 he was appointed as principal professor of violin at the Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln (Cologne). From 1904 to 1910, he was the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and taught violin at Harvard University. He also spent time as concertmaster in Frankfurt and Rotterdam. He then relocated to Berlin in 1910 to take the position of premier violin instructor at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin, Germany (Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik, now a part of the Berlin University of the Arts).
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In 1997 Hazelwood had a tribute concert at the Sydney Opera House, where he performed Dvorak's Romance in F minor with the Sydney Symphony. In 1998 he retired as concertmaster after 33 years with the Orchestra.
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Kermit Poling retired from his post as concertmaster of the SSO, after his 27th season with the SSO.10:01 Spotlight: Shreveport Symphony Orchestra Season Finale. Red River Radio, 27 April 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
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In Darmstadt he became concertmaster and from 1846 Hofkapellmeister; he gave concerts as soloist and conductor in Darmstadt and elsewhere. He was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.Nettl, Paul (1956). "Schlösser, Louis".
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Campbell, Margaret (1981), The Great Violinists, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, p. 76 Still, the Gewandhaus remained a highly prestigious orchestra. Its concertmaster, Ferdinand David, had invited Brahms to have his concerto performed there.Brahms and Avins, p.
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Engelbert Röntgen Engelbert Röntgen (30 September 1829 – 12 December 1897)Obituary Signale für die musikalische Welt 1897, volume 64 page 1011. Austrian National Library. was a German violinist, for many years concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, , . His Irish son-in-law John Ronayne was among others concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.Helmut Grohe: Max Strub in memory. In Mitteilungen der Hans-Pfitzner-Gesellschaft 1966, 16th episode, , here: p. 4.
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Jan Hendrik (Jan) Koert (born 6 November 1853, Rotterdam -- 2 February 1911, Atlantic City) was a Dutch-born musician, a leading solo violinist of his day in America, and concertmaster for some of the world's greatest orchestras.
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He also gave many recitals during the 1950s and 1960s, often with his sister Frances Pratz or pianist Leo Barkin accompanying. In 1969 Pratz returned to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a year later was appointed acting concertmaster. He was given the post of full-fledged concertmaster in 1971, remaining in that role until his retirement due to ill health in 1979. During those years he was a frequent soloist with the TSO and actively performed in many Toronto studio orchestras for recordings of film scores, commercial albums, and jingles.
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He joined the Vienna Symphony as concertmaster under Wolfgang Sawallisch at the age of 18. At 21, he was made concertmaster by the Vienna Philharmonic thanks to a tie-breaking vote on his appointment by conductor Herbert von Karajan. From 1963 to 2009 he taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna as a professor, from 1993 to 2012 he was a professor at Cologne University of Music. In 2007 he was appointed head of the department for chamber music at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the ' (palace church), on a monthly schedule. He wrote the cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Ephesians, "walk circumspectly, ... filled with the Spirit" (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the great banquet ().
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After his discharge in 1955, Carol was hired by Alexander Hillsburg where he was the concertmaster from 1956 to 1959. Norman also maintained an active career as soloist during this time. He met his wife while stationed there, and they married in 1952. He Recorded A Violin Recital, Norman Carol on RCA Victor. Carol was hired as concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra by Antal Dorati in 1958 and from 1960 until 1965 played under the baton of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, whose violin concerto Carol would premiere in 1985.
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In order to impress the duke once more, Josef makes Frederick Bach's assistant. At first, Bach is annoyed at Frederick but starts to see Frederick as a friend and they spend a lot of time together. Josef starts to hate Bach when Bach takes Frederick to the Red Palace, the home of the Duke's nephew, Prince August, for a performance. Bach is again angered that he was defeated for the role of the Concertmaster by Melchior, as the Concertmaster is bound to retire in a month, angering the Duke.
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Again, he was runner-up at the Carl Flesch International Competition in London where only one prize is awarded. He became concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 24, the youngest ever, earning the title "king of concertmasters" from The Strad magazine. He went on to serve as concertmaster of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Staryk is a well known master teacher and many of his pupils hold various positions in major orchestras, chamber groups and professional music schools around the world.
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Giray performed at the 34th International Istanbul Music Festival as a member of Istanbul Chamber Orchestra. Also, he played as Acting Concertmaster of Istanbul Chamber Orchestra in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he performed in front of an elite audience of foreign dignitaries. During that trip, Giray gave lectures and master classes at Istanbul Technical University, Bilkent University, and Yıldız University in Turkey, and Edison Academy in Germany. As a doctoral candidate at the Florida State University, Giray studied with Eliot Chapo, former Concertmaster of such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony.
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David Zafer studied with Elie Spivak and Albert Pratz at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 1966 to 1999 he was a Professor of Violin in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, where he is now professor emeritus. Zafer performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 1959, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as assistant concertmaster 1960-61, and orchestra of the National Ballet of Canada as concertmaster from 1961 to 1964. He founded the Chamber Orchestra at the University of Toronto, and directed it until his retirement.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. He composed the cantata for the Sunday after Christmas. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Galatians, through Christ we are free from the law (), and from the Gospel of Luke, Simeon and Anna talking to Mary ().
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court orchestra (Kapelle) of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe- Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. Bach composed the cantata in 1715 for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Philippians, "our conversation is in heaven" (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the question about paying taxes, answered by "Render unto Caesar..." ().
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Prystawski recorded extensively as member and soloist for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, and taught in the professional training program for violinists at the Konservatorium Dreilinden in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was First Concertmaster of the Basel Orchester Gesellschaft in Basel, Switzerland. Prystawski returned to Canada as founding Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa."NAC orchestra sounds good at 40". Toronto Star, By William Littler, 2 January 2010 Beginning in 1969, he appeared as soloist with the Orchestra for more than three decades. His first European tour with the orchesetra was in 1973.
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Hebel originated and helped create the role of Concertmaster for the hit Broadway show Wicked in 2003. Hebel held the role of Concertmaster for over 12 years on Broadway where they won 3 Tony Awards and received a Grammy Award. On July 12, 2018, with its 6,138th performance, it surpassed A Chorus Line to become Broadway's sixth- longest running show. In March 2016, Wicked surpassed $1 billion in total Broadway revenue, joining both The Phantom of the Opera and The Lion King as the only Broadway shows to do so.
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Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life. He received his musical education in Kristiania (now Oslo) and Stockholm, and was a concertmaster in Bergen before joining the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was a concertmaster in Aberdeen, Scotland, then a professor of music in Helsinki, and finally became a student once again, in St Petersburg, Leipzig (with Adolph Brodsky), Berlin (with Adolf Becker), and Liège (with César Thomson). 1898 Music festival in Bergen by Agnes Nyblin.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. He wrote this cantata for the Fourth Sunday in Advent, dating it himself. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Philippians, "Rejoice in the Lord alway" (), and from the Gospel of John, the testimony of John the Baptist ().
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church or ducal chapel), on a monthly schedule. He wrote this cantata for the Second Sunday after Epiphany. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Romans, "We have several gifts" (), and from the Gospel of John, the Marriage at Cana ().
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Jonathon Crow, Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra served as the official festival concertmaster. The orchestra was also recognized as uniquely diverse, with some of classical music's most accomplished African American players, including Ann Hobson Pilot, the legendary principal harpist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Owen Young, also of the BSO; and Terrance Patterson, Artistic Director of the Ritz Chamber Players. Besides classical music, the festival programs contemporary music, jazz, opera, film scores, and Broadway tunes performed by popular artists with orchestra. Guest ensembles complete the festival lineup.
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In 1982, Preucil became the concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; he had previously served as the concertmaster of the Utah Symphony and the Nashville Symphony. He appeared as soloist with the orchestra in 70 performances of 15 different violin concertos. In 1989, Preucil left the Atlanta Symphony to become the first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet; he would remain so until the quartet's disbanding seven seasons later. During his tenure with the ensemble, Preucil won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 1996 for a recording of John Corigliano's String Quartet.
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He also recorded the complete Beethoven string quartets, as well as chamber works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms, for the Telarc label. In 1995, Preucil became the concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, serving until his termination in 2018. He regularly appeared with the orchestra as soloist in concertos, and also has appeared as soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra. Each summer, Preucil also served as the concertmaster of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
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After 1916, he began to make his career more in Germany, and served as concertmaster in orchestras in Posen, Bad Nauheim und Dortmund. In 1932, Van Kempen became a German citizen. He died in Amsterdam at age 62.
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History, stories and anecdotes from then to now. Lienau, Berlin 1997, , . He received the honorary title of chamber musician in June 1937. From July 1937 he worked as 1st concertmaster in the orchestra of the Halle Opera House.
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The biography of Mischa Mischakoff does not include his long association as concertmaster of the Chautauqua Symphony at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY. There, Mischakoff also led the Mischakoff String Quartet which gave weekly recitals during the summer season.
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The South Carolina Philharmonic is an orchestra based in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Performances are held at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia. The current concertmaster is Mary Lee Taylor Kinosian. The orchestra was founded in 1963.
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He was also a frequent guest soloist or concertmaster with orchestras in England's provincial music festivals from the 1830s through the 1860s. The last years of Blagrove's life were spent battling a variety of illnesses. He died of pneumonia.
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He remained there for 36 years until his retirement in 2011.The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Announces the Retirement of Longstanding Concertmaster Cenek Vrba Vrba is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Alfred Sous: Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester. Geschichte, Geschichten und Anekdoten von damals bis heute. Lienau, Berlin 1997, , . On 1 January 1934, Hanke became first concertmaster at the Hamburg State Theatre.Personal. In Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 101 (1934) 2, p. 225f.
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Preucil was married to the violinist Gwen Starker-Preucil, daughter of the famed cellist János Starker. They divorced in December 2017. His daughter, Alexandra Preucil, is also a violinist; she previously served as Assistant Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Talvi lives in Seattle, Washington and runs the Talvi Violin Studio along with his wife, Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi, a former concertmaster for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. His daughter, Silja, is a freelance journalist and Senior Editor for In These Times magazine.
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He was the concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006 until 2011, when an injury to his bowing arm forced his early retirement. In 2011 he was one of the directors of the Canberra International Festival of Music.
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In the 1950s Jacobsen served as concertmaster in the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Alfred Wallenstein. He played the Red Diamond Stradivarius violin (see the story about its loss and restoration at ). He died on 19 March 1972 in Los Angeles, California.
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A patron of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, in the early 1960s, when the orchestra was preparing to move to new facilities at Place des Arts, McConnell purchased the 1722 Laub–Petschnikoff Stradivarius violin for use by concertmaster and violinist Calvin Sieb.
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Gudbrand Bøhn (November 10, 1839 – January 18, 1906) was a Norwegian violinist, concertmaster, and music teacher. Bøhn was born in Nes in Akershus county, Norway.Store norske leksikon: Gudbrand Bøhn. He was the son of the violinist Ole Gulbrandsen Bøhn (1803–1882).
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An audition with Henri Vieuxtemps in Graz was a failure, partly because Vieuxtemps' wife thought so.Auer, 1923, pp. 34-35 A visit to Paris proved equally unsuccessful. Auer decided to seek the advice of Joseph Joachim, then royal concertmaster at Hanover.
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Walter Prystawski, CM (born 12 February 1933)"Walter Prystawski". The Canadian Encyclopedia, by Fred Foran, 7 February 2006 is a Canadian classical violinist, conductor and teacher. For many years he was the concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
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The BHSO has partnered with many other local performing organizations, including Dakota Choral Union, Black Hills Dance Theater, Black Hills Community Theater, and Bells Of The Hills. The BHSO is currently conducted by Bruce Knowles; the concertmaster is Carol Knowles.
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He went to Russia as a violin virtuoso at the age of 18, becoming a member of the Imperial Orchestra at Saint Petersburg at 22, and later its concertmaster. He went to Dresden in 1869 and took up his residence there.
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In 1962, Silverstein became BSO concertmaster, a position he held for 22 years. He was appointed assistant conductor of the BSO in 1971. Whilst in Boston, Silverstein performed with other local ensembles such as the Civic Symphony and Banchetto Musicale.
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Kim's studies of violin started at three. He started studying with Dorothy DeLay at eight. Kim studied at the Juilliard School and received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He has been playing as concertmaster with the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999.
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Upon Wild's retirement in 1974, the CBCWO's concertmaster Arthur Polson served as interim director. In April 1975 Boris Brott was appointed conductor of the orchestra. He remained in that post until the orchestra was disbanded in 1984."WSO's Quality Touted".
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She has given concerts in Japan, Cyprus, Korea, Russia, Finland, Slovenia, Poland, Czech Republic, and Pakistan. In 2005, Koycheva became the concertmaster of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She is also a member of the Lot Lorien ethnorock group.
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In October 1885, though barely 20 years old, he was engaged by conductor Wilhelm Gericke as concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. For the next 20 years he was concertmaster and assistant conductor, appearing as soloist in many violin concertos and giving the first American performances of the concertos by Brahms and Carl Goldmark, as well as the première of the First Violin Concerto of Gustav Strube. As assistant conductor, he led the BSO in its performances at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Shortly after his arrival in Boston, he formed and led the Kneisel Quartet with other BSO string players.
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Afterward, Zhong sought Bronstein's famed student Elmar Oliveira for further advice and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree at State University of New York at Purchase. Zhong performs in a number of professional orchestras in North California. Notably, he is the Associate Concertmaster in Santa Rosa Symphony, and Concertmaster at the Mendocino Music Festival. As a violin instructor, Zhong teaches at Sonoma State University, and has held professorship at Western Illinois University (2002-2004) and California State University, Los Angeles (2004-2009), and taught master-classes in universities in North America, South America, and China.
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He was the second concertmaster of the Oslo Philharmonic from its beginning in 1919, and for a time he served as first concertmaster at the Christiania Theatre and National Theatre. With Ole Olsen and Edvard Grieg, he created music for Henrik Ibsen's comedy The League of Youth (premiere at the Swedish Theatre, 1901). Like Ole Olsen, Lange was a Freemason and worked as a conductor and arranger for the Freemasons Orchestra (1921–1936). In Halden he was a member of a chamber quartet together with Oscar Borg (his violin teacher in his youth), Markus Boberg, and the cellist Dupery Hamilton.
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Since joining the faculty of UAF, Butler-Hopkins has served as concertmaster and soloist with the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and as a member of the Alaska Trio, the Alaska Chamber Ensemble, and the Alaska Chamber Players. She has performed as concertmaster for orchestras with the Western Opera Theater, the Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre, and the Fairbanks Choral Arts Orchestra. Butler-Hopkins has been on the faculty of the UAF Summer Fine Arts Camp, is the master teacher at the Juneau Jazz and Classics String Workshop, is the chamber music coordinator at the Fairbanks Suzuki Institute, and the String Symposium.
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As a conductor and concertmaster, Cárdenes led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for over 20 years, leaving in 2010.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Concertmaster Cardenes to leave PSO," February 14, 2009 The Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra was created in 1999 for Cárdenes to showcase his talents as a conductor and violinist and it went on to perform for a total of eleven seasons. Cárdenes is known for premiering rarely heard pieces by notable composers. He champions contemporary composers and their works, having commissioned a number of modern works from André Previn, Leonardo Balada, Edgar Meyer, Rodion Shchedrin, Mariana Villanueva, and many more.
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Having maintained contacts with the town of his birth, Rolla presented a concert at the Teatro Ducale in Parma on 11 June 1818. In a letter written in 1820, Niccolò Paganini praised Rolla's ability after they had played violin duets at the request of his father.Famiglia Rolla al Dizionario della musica di Parma In 1821, Rolla became the concertmaster of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and performed along with his father at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1823. The same year, he accepted the position of concertmaster at the Staatskapelle in Dresden on the recommendation of Paganini.
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After a partially successful surgery three years prior, he admittedly played in pain, but kept it to himself until announcing his retirement plans at the start of the 1993-94 season. Upon his retirement, his concertmaster duties were temporarily assumed by associate concertmaster William DePasquale, who was a first desk violinist in the orchestra from 1963-2005 and Carol’s stand partner for nearly three decades. DePasquale’s daughter Francesca studied under the mentorship of Carol, and shared that she had worked on the Barber Violin Concerto together with him as recently as 2019. In 1973, Richard Nixon arranged for the orchestra to visit China.
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During her 70-year educational career she lectured in Australia, United States and Europe and published articles about string teaching and playing in leading journals. As a performing violinist, she was a prominent member of the Leeds musical community. Her pupils frequently gave concerts and a large number of them have enjoyed successful musical careers. Her list of notable students includes London Sinfonietta manager Michael Vyner, James Murphy, director of the Southbank Sinfonia, violinist and El Sistema adviser Marshall Marcus, Munich Philharmonic concertmaster Julian Shevlin, Hallé concertmaster Lyn Fletcher, Principal Viola of the Philharmonia Orchestra Vicci Wardman, and composer Philip Wilby.
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Theodore Bernays Spiering (September 5, 1871 - August 11, 1925) was an American violinist, conductor and teacher. Spiering was born in Old North St. Louis, Missouri, where at age five he took his first lessons in violin from his father, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He made his first public appearance at age seven. He studied at the College of Music of Cincinnati, now the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, with violin teacher Henry Schradieck. He studied with Joseph Joachim in Berlin from 1888 to 1892 and later became concertmaster of the orchestra of Joachim Hochschule.
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For example, whereas a staff engineer in a civil engineering firm will spend their time doing engineering inspections and working with blueprints, a senior engineer may spend most of their day in meetings with senior managers and reading financial reports. In symphony orchestras, when a musician such as a violinist is promoted to the position of concertmaster, their duties change substantially. As a violin player, the individual played the music as part of the violin section. As a concertmaster, the individual plays solo parts, decides on the bowings and interpretation of the music, and leads the violins during performances.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. Bach originally wrote this cantata in his last year there, for the Second Sunday of Advent. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Romans, call of the Gentiles (), and from the Gospel of Luke, the Second Coming of Christ, also called Second Advent ().
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Anassian has held Conducting and/or Concertmaster positions with such noted groups as the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra, Freiburg Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra, and the International Zelt Musik Orchestra. He has performed hundreds of concerts in France, England, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and all over the United States. He was invited to perform the Khachaturian Violin Concerto in Armenia with the Armenian National Philharmonic under the baton of his father, Henrik Anassian. In addition to playing violin with the Los Angeles Opera, Anassian is Concertmaster with the Symphony in the Glen.
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Wang Feng and the band No. 43 Baojia Street (鲍家街43号) released their first album in 1997, three years after it was formed. During these three years the band practiced in a basement in the college and performed in local clubs and bars. To comply with his father's will and to have a stable income, Wang took the offer of the vice concertmaster of the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra. However Wang quit the job after a year even with a promotion of the concertmaster position, and put himself completely into Rock music.
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He took a musical approach to the science of acoustics. The varnish on each individual instrument was created specifically for each instrument being finished. In 1938, his daughter, Ruth, married Ernest Llewellyn – a violinist, violist and conductor who later became the founding director of the Canberra School of Music. Smith's wedding present to Llewellyn was a violin, which he used while concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1949–64; it then passed to a later concertmaster, Dene Olding, who also used it in recordings of works such as the violin concertos of Ross Edwards, Samuel Barber, Frank Martin and Darius Milhaud.
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He performed in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and played under the conductors Sergei Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, and Darius Milhaud. With Daniel Pinkham, Brink co-founded the Cambridge Festival Orchestra in the mid-1950s, serving as that orchestra's concertmaster. In 1951 and 1952, Brink and Pinkham performed at Brown University and Wellesley college under the auspices of the Peabody Mason Concerts.The Evening Bulletin, 7-Nov-1951, Ruth Tripp, "Daniel Pinkham, Robert Brink offer first in Corelli series", ProvidenceThe Townsman, 24-Jan-1952, "College Corelli concerts notable", Wellesley Brink founded the Boston Classical Orchestra and served as its concertmaster until 1995.
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Claire Hodgkins, an internationally known violinist, teacher, chamber musician, and founder of the Jascha Heifetz Society, was born in Portland, Oregon the daughter of James L. and Viena H. Hodgkins. She started violin lessons at age four with James Eoff and continued with Edward Hurliman, concertmaster of the Portland Symphony at age nine. She would later study with Boris Sirpo. She began her career in the Portland area, where she played as concertmaster in the Little Chamber Orchestra in the 1950s. In their first tour to Europe in 1955, where they played in six countries, they created a sensation and received rave reviews.
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In 1751 he was a violinist at the court orchestra in Stuttgart. There he studied with Niccolo Jommelli. Later he became assistant to the ballet master Jean Georges Noverre and composed operas and ballets. In 1769 he was appointed Concertmaster and Hofcompositeur.
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From around 1910 he worked mostly as a composer, and besides others he wrote an opera Campane di guerra (1933, Milan), and several operettas. Ranzato served as concertmaster for the LaScala Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He made several recordings on the Pathe label.
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Katia Popov (; 3 March 1965 – 18 May 2018),Katia Popov Retrieved 18 July 2020. born in Bulgaria and later living in California, was a violinist, playing as soloist, in chamber music and in orchestras; she was concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
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When Huang left the quartet in 2010 to assume the position of concertmaster of the Houston Symphony, Ayano Ninomiya was appointed first violinist of the Ying Quartet."Ying Quartet Welcomes Ayano Ninomiya as First Violinist". Eastman School of Music, 11 August 2010.
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In high school, he was the Assistant Concertmaster of the Chicago Youth Orchestra playing the violin.John D. Hancock at Filmacres.com Hancock graduated from Harvard University. He continued his theatrical studies in Europe with a grant from Harvard and observed Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble.
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As a girl, Butler studied violin with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, Bernard Listerman and with Abbie Shepardson-Mauck. From Listerman she obtained her first good violin, an instrument of the same era as Stradivarius violins. She also became an accomplished cornet player.
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70 At that time, Auer says, Leipzig was "more important, from a musical point of view, than Berlin and even Vienna."Auer, 1923, p. 69 Success led to his becoming, at the age of 19,Auer, 1923, p. 71 concertmaster in Düsseldorf.
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Ernest Victor Llewellyn CBE (21 June 191512 July 1982) was an Australian violinist, concertmaster, violist, conductor and musical administrator. He was the founding director of the Canberra School of Music and is commemorated by Llewellyn Hall, the concert venue at the School.
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After graduating from Mission High School he enrolled in San Francisco State as a Music major, playing clarinet and achieving first chair concertmaster in the college's symphonic band by his sophomore year. He also spent one semester at Eastman School of Music.
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Walter J. Fried (August 18, 1877-August 18, 1925) was an American violinist and conductor. He served as both music director and as concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra between 1911 and 1925 and was also one of Dallas's leading violin teachers during that period.
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Dworkin enrolled at Penn State where he was concertmaster for the Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra. He was enrolled as a business major though, and he withdrew without earning a degree because of financial reasons.Biography Today, p. 42 He then decided to move to Michigan.
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The orchestra performs both early and modern music and continues the tradition of Paul Sacher's Basler Kammerorchester (1926–1987). Music up to the classical period is performed on period instruments. Every year the orchestra also commissions new works. Performances are often led by the concertmaster.
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Onay's mother is the daughter of the famous Turkish mathematician and scientist Kerim Erim. Her father is the German violinist Joachim Reusch. Onay's son Erkin Onay is a professional violinist. He is currently a concertmaster of the orchestra of the Ankara State Opera and Ballet.
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There, she received lessons in music for the piano, violin and voice. She also served as concertmaster for her Bridgewater-Raritan High School. The high school's symphony orchestra consisted of 120 members. She performed the violin as part of the New Jersey Youth Symphony.
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Paulli was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a student of violinist and composer Claus Schall and of classical composer Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall. During 1839-41, he undertook a study trip abroad to Germany, Austria, Italy, France and England. In 1849 he also became concertmaster.
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Richman has been married to violinist Katsuko Esaki since 1984. She has performed with New York orchestras including the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center and The Little Orchestra Society, and served as concertmaster for numerous Broadway shows including Guys and Dolls and Dreamgirls.
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Kuroyanagi was born in Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture (now Tokyo). Her father was a violinist and a concertmaster. Her nickname as a child was Totto-chan, according to her 1981 autobiographical memoir. Kuroyanagi went to Tomoe Elementary School (Tomoe Gakuen) when she was young.
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Wolfram Huschke: Zukunft Musik: eine Geschichte der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar. Böhlau Köln, 2006, (online S. 205, p. 215) Before emigrating to the USA via Switzerland and Palestine in 1938, he was concertmaster in the orchestra of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.
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Each of the three leading performers was recalled for more applause. Brahms wrote to Clara that Joachim [as concertmaster?] "rehearsed my concerto and played it marvelously well ... In short, the Leipzig reviews have done no damage" [in Hamburg]. Heller wrote a "highly commendatory review".
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The band decided to keep the name. The band was founded in 1933 by Walter E. Shaeffer, who had served with the United States Marine Band as a musician and concertmaster. During the 1950s, composer Henry Fillmore became a major patron of the band.
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Conductor Assistant - Honored artist, orchestra concertmaster Nazim Rzayev has performed various works on string instruments. The People's Artist, Stalin Prize Laureate, Artistic Director, Niyazi masterfully opened the composer's compositions, created harmony between the orchestra and individual soloists, choral and dance, and promoted orchestrated professionalism.
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During his musical career he was a member of various orchestras including the Orchestre Lamoureux and the Pasdeloup Orchestra. From 1945 to 1965, he was concertmaster at the Opéra de Paris. In June 1945 Nerini was elected to become concertmaster of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire,D. Kern Holoman. The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire 1828–1967. University of California Press, 2004, p459. which position he held until the dissolution of the orchestra in 1967, playing a Mozart concerto with them the January before closure. He was also a violin teacher at the from 1957 to 1967 and at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1965 to 1985.
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Héry studied the violin with Pierre Doukan and chamber music with Jean Hubeau at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won a first prize in these two disciplines before entering the third cycle in 1980. After a third prize at the in 1983, he was hired by the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris in 1985 then by the Orchestre national de France in 1986 when he was chief of attack for the . He left the "National" in 1990 to return to it in 1992 as soloist concertmaster, after two years with the Orchestre de Paris in the same concertmaster position. He shared this function with Sarah Nemtanu.
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Since 1980 she holds the position of the Principal Concertmaster at the National Theatre in Belgrade. She has given numerous concerts as a soloist and concertmaster throughout the former Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany, England, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Denmark, Japan and Switzerland. In her repertoire she puts a special attention to the premieres of Serbian music and composers. She has recorded for radio and television, and has been also active as a composer of children's music (music on the poems Apple and the Butterfly and Sasha, a Gypsy Dog from the children's fairytale books written by Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia).
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court orchestra (Kapelle) of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe- Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. He performed the cantata on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity as the fifth cantata of the series, following . The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, on the gospel of Christ and his (Paul's) duty as an apostle (), and from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector ().
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He then spent a year as leader of the London Symphony Orchestra (1990–1991). In the Netherlands he was a faculty member of both the String and Chamber music Departments of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (1985–1995), and concertmaster (1990–1995) of its orchestra, the Residentie Orkest under Yevgeny Svetlanov. In 1996 Edo de Waart brought him back to Australia as co- concertmaster and associate conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (1996–2001). Harding was the artistic director of the James Fairfax Young Artists Programme, the Peter Weiss sponsored "Music for Spring", and was in 1997 artistic director of the National Music Camp.
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Gniewek is a native of New York City, where he began his musical education; he continued at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Andre de Ribaupierre and Joseph Knitzer, becoming concertmaster of the Eastman Rochester Orchestra and associate concertmaster of Rochester Philharmonic under Erich Leinsdorf. Other teachers were the Canadian violinist Albert Pratz and Raphael Bronstein of New York City. Distant Relation of Malgorzata Gniewek Gniewek is currently married to soprano Judith Blegen."The Met's Judith Blegen and Ray Gniewek Are a Duet: She Sings, He Strings" from People magazine, October 26, 1981 He was formerly married to ballet dancer and Pilates instructor Lolita San Miguel.
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Dmitri Klebanov composed for her pieces such as a viola concerto and Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and a mixed ensemble of thirteen players. In 1990, she emigrated to the United States. She has been the concertmaster of the chamber orchestra Philharmonia Virtuosi, founded and conducted by Richard Kapp, from 1993. (Other sources give 1989 as the time of immigration and 1991 as year of appointment.) From 1992, she was the concertmaster for choral concerts of the community chorus The Master Singers of Westchester in the Bedford Presbyterian Church, including Bach's Mass in B minor in 2003 and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor in 2007.
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He then served as the concertmaster (and occasional soloist) of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and later was the Cleveland Orchestra's concertmaster under conductor George Szell. Gingold edited numerous violin technique books and orchestral excerpt collections. He taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for more than thirty years, until his death in 1995. His pupils included Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell, Monique Morin, Christoph Poppen, Arnold Steinhardt, Martin Beaver, Shony Alex Braun, Andrés Cárdenes, Corey Cerovsek, Cyrus Forough, Miriam Fried, Philippe Graffin, Endre Granat, Ulf Hoelscher, Hu Nai-yuan, Jacques Israelievitch, Leonidas Kavakos, Chin Kim, Salvatore Greco, Jaime Laredo, William Preucil, Joseph Silverstein, Lucie Robert, and Gwen Thompson.
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Born in Pensacola, Florida, Escudé was trained as a classical violinist and pianist from the early age of 6. She began pursuing the violin more seriously and became the Concertmaster of Rogers High School in Newport, Rhode Island and was awarded the 1997 Governor's Scholar Award to attend the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Music Program. She later became the Concertmaster of the Rhode Island Youth Philharmonic . Aside from her keen interest in music, Escudé was passionate about singing and acting as well and actively participated in school musicals such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and was involved in many other school events while growing up.
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You have given him a proper > upbringing, which would have still have been insufficient without such > natural traits. From no direction has there been spoken even the slightest > complaint or criticism about your son. On the contrary, his progress has > been so remarkable that, for example, on the violin, the concertmaster David > recently remarked to me that your sone is already such a good and capable > musician that, should he remain in good health, nothing could stop him in > any place from gaining recognition for his own achievements and > contributions to art for its own honor. Robert Schumann called Wasielewski as concertmaster of the Düsseldorf Musikverein in 1850.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. Bach wrote the cantata for Oculi, the third Sunday in Lent. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Ephesians, advice for a righteous life (), and from the Gospel of Luke, casting out a devil (). The cantata text was written by the court poet Salomon Franck and published in 1715 in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer.
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From 1982-1991, he served as assistant concertmaster of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and was named concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony in 1995, without audition, by the Orchestra and with the endorsements of then-Music Directors Leonard Slatkin and Hans Vonk. Halen has appeared as soloist with the orchestras of St. Louis, WDR in Cologne, San Francisco Symphony, Houston, Detroit, and Toronto. Additionally, he has served as the violinist in the Eliot Trio of Washington University in St. Louis with cellist Bjorn Ranheim and pianist Seth Carlin.Washington University's Eliot Trio to Perform Haydn and Tchaikovsky Broadway World In 2002 Halen received the Saint Louis Arts and Entertainment Award for excellence.
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Karen Johnson is an American violinist. She began her studies at the age of 4 in Gilbert, Arizona, and went on to win many prestigious competitions such as the Corpus Christi International Young Artist Competition, the Midland-Odessa National Young Artist Competition, the Juilliard Sibelius Violin Concerto Competition, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the Jefferson Symphony Competitions, the Music Academy of the West Festival Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association Yamaha String Competition. She has served as the concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. She is currently serving as concertmaster of The "President's Own" Marine Band Chamber Orchestra.
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The conductor unifies the orchestra, sets the tempo and shapes the sound of the ensemble. The conductor also prepares the orchestra by leading rehearsals before the public concert, in which the conductor provides instructions to the musicians on their interpretation of the music being performed. The leader of the first violin section, commonly called the concertmaster, also plays an important role in leading the musicians. In the Baroque music era (1600–1750), orchestras were often led by the concertmaster or by a chord-playing musician performing the basso continuo parts on a harpsichord or pipe organ, a tradition that some 20th-century and 21st-century early music ensembles continue.
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In 1893 he was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Hans von Bülow. In 1894, after von Bülow's death, he became concertmaster of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, of which he was a member until 1899. At the invitation of the industrialist family Weyermann, he took part with other members of the orchestra in an intimate chamber music festival at near Bad Honnef at Whitsun 1896 and took part in the performance of Robert Schumann's String Quartet in A major and Johannes Brahms's Piano quintet F-minor - with Brahms at the piano. In 1899 he was appointed as a docent at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
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Granat is noted for his Urtext editions of violin concerti by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Henryk Wieniawski as well as The Essential Sevcik. Granat is editor for the Heifetz Collection that include urtext editions of Heifetz' favorites as well as the Urtext Edition of Paganini 24 Caprices and THE HEIFETZ SCALE BOOK. For many years one of the leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry, he was the leader for Miklos Rozsa, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini, Hans Zimmer and a host of others. Granat was the concertmaster of numerous awards ceremonies of the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards and the Grammy Awards.
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In addition, she frequently performs zarzuelas. She is married to , an Italian violinist and conductor who since 1994 has been the concertmaster of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (OSG) of A Coruña. The couple lives in Oleiros and has two children who speak Spanish and Italian.
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Jacobson attended the film program at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He then worked at a public access television station in Tampa, and as a freelance director/cameraman for a decade.Rob Feld, “Concertmaster,” Editors Guild Magazine, volume 30, number 3, May–June 2009.
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Robertson's "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra" premiered under Maurice Abravanel during the centennial of the University of Utah in 1950 with Utah Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster Tibor Zelig as soloist.Wilson, Marian Robertson: "Leroy Robertson: Music Giant From The Rockies" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Blue Ribbon Publications, 1996) p.
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Richter was born on September 24, 1931 in Plzeň (Czechoslovakia). His father was Gymnasium professor. At the urging of his mother he attended a music school, where he was appointed assistant concertmaster at the age of twelve. After the war his family moved from Sudetenland to Erfurt.
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In 2012, Gilliard graduated from Furman University with a major in violin performance. At Furman, he was the concertmaster of the school orchestra. His debut E.P., "The Introduction of Seth g." was released on February 28, 2013. He has uploaded many of his songs to YouTube.
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He received further lessons from Arnold Rosé. Thomann unterrichtete in verschiedenen Adelshäusern: den Fürsten Fürstenberg und Schwarzenberg as well as the Waldstein family. He was first concertmaster of the orchestras in Chemnitz, Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf. From 1921 to 1925 he worked as a freelance artist in Munich.
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Josef Märkl (16 January 1928 – 14 October 2010) was a German violinist, composer and music educator. He was a member of the radio orchestras in Munich, Stuttgart and Baden-Baden. Most recently he was concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and primarius of the Märkl Quartet.
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Fritz Kirmse as member of the Kirmse Quartet (1949) Fritz Kirmse (born 11 February 1912 – ?) is or was a German violinist and university lecturer. From 1934 to 1936 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. From 1937 to 1939 he was first concertmaster of the .
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Following Mendelssohn's death in 1847, Joachim stayed briefly in Leipzig, teaching at the Conservatorium and playing on the first desk of the Gewandhaus Orchestra with Ferdinand David,Moser, 1901, pp. 39, 43–44 whom Mendelssohn had appointed as concertmaster on taking up the conductorship in 1835.
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A number of Hungarian composers dedicated their works to the quartet. Komlós was concertmaster of the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra from 1960 to 1969. From 1982 he was an associate professor at the Franz Liszt Academy.Violinist Péter Komlós dies at 81 Daily News Hungary, 2 May 2017.
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Rocco was born on March 2, 1916. His parents emigrated from Italy. He attended Saint Paul Central High School and played for the school's baseball and basketball teams. He was also concertmaster as a violinist, and considered a career as a musician before deciding on baseball.
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The concert was performed by WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne and State Choir LATVIJA, conducted by Niklas Willén. Juraj Cizmarovic was the concertmaster for the event. Willén had previously conducted the recording of Valtonen’s fanfare for Symphonic Fantasies. The games represented were taken from the Japanese video game developer Nintendo.
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Tibor Ney (April 20, 1906 Budapest - February 6, 1981 Budapest) was a Hungarian violinist and music teacher. Tibor Ney was the professor of violin at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, the concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of the Hungarian String Trio.
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Juliette Kang (born September 6, 1975) is a Canadian violinist. In 1994, she earned the gold medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Kang went on to have an international solo career. She joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2005, where she holds the position of first associate concertmaster.
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Rafael Druian (January 20, 1923 - September 6, 2002), was an American violinist, conductor and music educator. He is remembered for his tenures as concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony and Minneapolis Symphony under Antal Dorati, the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez.
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He also appeared as soloist among others with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. From January to August 1946 he was a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra. Afterwards he was 2nd concertmaster with the .Günter Grull: Radio and music by and for soldiers. War and post-war years (1939-1960).
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Music ensembles typically have a leader. In jazz bands, rock and pop groups and similar ensembles, this is the band leader. In classical music, orchestras, concert bands and choirs are led by a conductor. In orchestra, the concertmaster (principal first violin player) is the instrumentalist leader of the orchestra.
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Tiit Lilleorg was born in Tartu, his father was a journalist and his mother was soprano and musician Helga Lilleorg. Lilleorg grew up with the theatre, as his mother performed as a choral singer, soloist, concertmaster and teacher at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu.Eesti Entsüklopeedia. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
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Gutiérrez's most popular concerto is his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. This Concerto was commissioned by Hugo Mariani (who was the conductor of the National Symphony). The work was premiered in 1963 by Walter Field, the concertmaster and dedicatee.Andrade, Costa Rican Composer Benjamin Gutiérrez and His Piano works, 48.
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As well, as part of the early music movement, some 20th- and 21st-century orchestras have revived the Baroque practice of having no conductor on the podium for Baroque pieces, using the concertmaster or a chord-playing basso continuo performer (e.g., harpsichord or organ) to lead the group.
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Vänskä has been married twice. He and his first wife Pirkko, a freelance drama critic, have three grown children, one of whom, Olli, plays violin in the Finnish folk metal band Turisas. The couple separated in 2009. In April 2015, Vänskä married Erin Keefe, concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra.
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Her musical education began when she entered school. She received musical training from the Grand Ducal conservatory in Karlsruhe until 1894. At age 7, she was the youngest student ever taught by concertmaster Carl Will. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin until 1896.
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On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the (palace church), on a monthly schedule. is the second cantata in this series, composed for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate, after , for Palm Sunday and Annunciation, and before , for Pentecost. The prescribed readings for that Sunday were from the First Epistle of Peter, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man" (), and from the Gospel of John, Jesus announcing his second coming in the so-called Farewell Discourse, saying "your sorrow shall be turned into joy" ().
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On June 16, 2017, at Colburn School's Zipper Hall, the HCO presented violinist Nathan Cole, the First Associate Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in a traditional program of Bach, Grieg, and Copland. On June 17, 2017, at Santa Monica's Broad Stage, the HCO presented the world premiere of Jeremy Turner's "Five Came Back: Suite for Chamber Orchestra", based on the soundtrack from the Netflix documentary series Five Came Back. The program also featured violinist Nathan Cole, the First Associate Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Mark Robertson, co-music director of the HCO. After this performance, Mr. Turner was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for his score to Five Came Back, but did not win.
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Bendix- Balgley has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Italy), Orchestre Royal Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), the Binghamton Philharmonic, and the Erie Philharmonic. From 2011 to 2014, he was Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and in 2014 he joined the Berliner Philharmoniker as 1st Concertmaster. As a chamber musician, Bendix-Balgley was the first violinist of the Athlos String Quartet, in Munich, from 2008 to 2011, and performed throughout Europe. This quartet won a special prize at the 2009 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin.
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A former concertmaster of the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, a chamber orchestra consisting of leading New York Philharmonic musicians, which he helped to organize, Mr. Ravina was a long time a member of the New York Philharmonic and an active member of the New York Philharmonic Ensembles. As founder of the Ravina String Quartet, he concertized and recorded in both the United States and Canada and developed special programs for young audiences. Since 1976, he was concertmaster of the Masterwork Orchestra, Masterwork Chamber Orchestra, and St. Cecilia Orchestra. He also taught chamber music at Dartmouth College and the Waterloo Music Festival, and has performed under almost every major conductor of the last three decades.
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Südfriedhof in Leipzig Born in Diemarden near Göttingen, Schachtebeck attended the Höhere Bürgerschule in Göttingen and received his first violin lessons from Eduard Gustav Wolschke, the then chief conductor of the . He studied violin from 1904 to 1905 with Arno Hilf at the Leipzig Conservatory. Afterwards, he received private lessons from Walter Hansmann and took part in concerts with the Gewandhaus. In 1908 he became violinist in the Gewandhausorchester. In 1909 he became first concertmaster at the Theater Leipzig. From 1911 to 1914 he was concertmaster of the Philharmonic Winderstein Orchestra. He was also repeatedly appointed to the Bayreuth Festival orchestra (1911/12, 1914, 1931, 1933/34).Alfred Sous: Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester.
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He attended Gawler High School and graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Music. In 1948 he moved to Sydney, where he performed as a soloist and as a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and studied composition with Sir Eugene Goosens. He moved to Switzerland in 1951 to study with Paul Grümmer; during this period he was also taught by Pablo Casals and spent six weeks studying in Vienna with Ernst Morawec. In 1953 he settled in Zürich, where he became a member of Paul Sacher's Collegium Musicum Zürich chamber orchestra in 1954 and its concertmaster two years after that; he later became the concertmaster of Sacher's Basel Chamber Orchestra.
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By age 17, having undertaken tours in the United States and Germany, he was concertmaster at the City Theatre of Brno. In 1941, still aged only 19, he was chosen by Wilhelm Furtwängler as Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, while also forging a solo career. He attracted immediate attention, and his portrait was used on advertisements for the orchestra's upcoming programs. In 1943, aged 21, he married the 37-year-old pianist Gerda Nette-Rothe.Archipon, Gerhard Taschner; The Early 78 RPM Recordings Gerda Nette-Taschner was born 21 November 1906; a student and adopted daughter of Robert Teichmüller; she was still performing in 1999, aged 93. She died 15 October 2012 She then became known as Gerda Nette-Taschner.
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Author of the song "Rozpriahajte khloptsi koni". Danylo Pika (director 1938-41). With the removal (arrest) of Balatsky, Pika again had a chance to become the artistic director of the chorus. Although he did not have a formal music education, he had for many years been the concertmaster of the Capella.
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Born in Manhattan, Dowd grew up playing piano, tuba, violin, and string bass. His mother was an opera singer and his father was a concertmaster. Dowd graduated from Stuyvesant High School in June 1942 at the age of 16. He continued his musical education at City College of New York.
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Manfred Honeck was born in Nenzing, Austria, near the border with Switzerland and Liechtenstein, one of nine children of Otto and Frieda Honeck. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Rainer Honeck. Honeck lives in the village of Altach, Vorarlberg, Austria with his wife Christiane and their six children.
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The regular performance venue is the Main stage Theatre at LAVC. Los Angeles Philharmonic cellist Stephen Custer and violinist Lawrence Sonderling have been regular guest performers. Lynn Angebranndt of the Kadima String Quartet is the principal cellist. The past concertmaster was Rochelle Abramson, a first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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In 2013 he was appointed Concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra."Violinist Robert Uchida takes post with Edmonton Symphony". Chronicle Herald, June 4, 2014"Festival review: Hearing music played on period instruments a marvellous occasion". Edmonton Journal, by Mark Morris, May 3, 2015"Symphony Nova Scotia - Beethoven's Violin Concerto". thechronicleherald.ca.
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From 1932 to 1935 he worked freelance. In 1935 he became 1st concertmaster with the orchestra of the Deutschlandsender. In 1942 he took over a full-time teaching position or professorship at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 1946 he took over a professorship at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Munich.
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Mosesti was born in 1924 in Rivignano. He studied with and , graduating from in 1946. Herbert von Karajan chose him as the concertmaster of the Verdi Orchestra in Trieste; in 1951 he gave with the orchestra the first performance of Illersberg's Violin Concerto.Addio ad Alfonso Mosesti giornaledellamusica.it. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
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Sloan was a member of the Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestra from 2004 to 2009, and joined the Los Angeles based Sonus Quartet in 2008. She also served as Concertmaster for the Abilene Philharmonic for two seasons.The Cooking Group., "The Cooking Group", May 2, 2011, Accessed July 30, 2011.
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Today Niziol, playing as a soloist, as concertmaster of the Zurich opera house orchestra, and the first violinist of two quartets, is probably one of the most creative violinists in the world. In his free time, his family “plays first fiddle”, and he is a hands-on father and husband.
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Page has contributed to the music of at least 29 films including The Moderns in 1988, Little Man Tate in 1991, and Cold Creek Manor in 2003. He has also been concertmaster of at least eight films, including Passed Away in 1992, Son in Law in 1993, and Duma in 2005.
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Farina was born at Mantua. He presumably received his first lessons from his father, who was sonatore di viola at the court of the Gonzaga in that city. Later he got further education probably by Salomone Rossi and Giovanni Battista Buonamente. From 1626 to 1629, he worked as concertmaster in Dresden.
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With its focus on contemporary music, SNO can also be classified as a contemporary classical ensemble. The orchestra's president is Dr. Janan Broadbent and Ben Goldberg is SNO's Composer-in-Residence. The orchestra's current concertmaster is Nikita Borisevich. Founder Jordan Randall Smith and co-founder Nicholas Bentz are current members of the collective.
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Medicine Hat News, Medicine Hat, Alberta, September 29, 2005 Violinist Albert Pratz was concertmaster of the orchestra from 1953–1961. The CBCSO played weekly broadcasts on CBC Radio and also made frequent appearances on CBC Television. The orchestra performed internationally, including a tour in London, England,"Murray Ginsberg's story". Toronto Star, Nov.
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Bach as the concertmaster probably led the performances as the first violinist, while the organ part was played by Bach's students such as Johann Martin Schubart and Johann Caspar Vogler. Even in settings like chamber music, Bach requested a strong continuo section with cello, bassoon and violone in addition to the keyboard instrument.
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The rise of Nazism in Europe forced many Jewish musicians to leave. Some of these musicians came to Israel. The immigration included some of the leading classical musicians of Europe, including Ödön Pártos, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Paul Ben-Haim, composer and opera conductor, and composer Alexander Boskovitz.Hirshberg (1995), pp 157–183.
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Fabio Machado was born in Funchal and started studying mandolin at the age of 9 years. He joined the Madeira Mandolin Orchestra (Recreio Musical União da Mocidade) and became its Concertmaster for several years, performing in several venues as a soloist.Salvador, José (9 October 2008). "Bandolinista madeirense brilha na Europa" Diário de Notícias.
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A film by Paul Smaczny about the orchestra, Knowledge is the Beginning, won the Emmy Award for best documentary related to arts of 2006. In 2007, the orchestra received the Praemium Imperiale Grant for Young Artists. It has recorded for the Teldec label. The current concertmaster is , the son of Daniel Barenboim.
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The current concertmaster Jennifer Cho, was appointed in August 2017. Also in 2017, the California Symphony released a public statement of its commitment to diversity. The orchestra achieved greater than 20% programming by women and people of color in 2019. Executive Director Aubrey Bergauer left the California Symphony on August 15, 2019.
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In 1994 she participated in establishing the Quartetto Stradivari. From 1992 bis 2003 she was concertmaster of the I Musici chamber orchestra. She was recently appointed principal guest director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Sîrbu plays a Stradivarius [violin (model “Conte di Fontana”, 1702), which had been played by Russian violinist David Oistrakh.
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He held that post until 1979, having already assumed the music directorship of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1976. Previn had a collegial working style with symphony musicians and even formed a chamber music trio with Herbert Greenberg, associate concertmaster, and principal cellist, Anne Martindale Williams around 1979.Brignano and McCullough 2011, 109.
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Terakado began to study the violin at age four. He won a second prize in the All Japan Youth Musical Competition aged fourteen, and studied at the Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku in Tokyo. In 1984 he became concertmaster of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. When he was nineteen, he got interested in the Baroque violin.
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Pietro Luigi Francesco de Baillou (Milan, 27 July 1736 – Milan, 14 March 1804), also known with the French form Louis de Baylou, was an Italian violinist and composer. Concertmaster and conductor at La Scala for 23 years, his musical production consisted mainly of ballets represented in Milan and in other major theatres.
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In that capacity, he played in the first performance of Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss, and in the first recording of Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Strauss, conducted by the composer in Berlin (see below). Academy of Music in Berlin in 1928, where Wolfsthal was a professor between 1926 and 1931 Wolfsthal then moved to Bremen, where he succeeded Georg Kulenkampff (1898–1948) as concertmaster. Later he moved to the Swedish capital Stockholm and then back to Berlin as concertmaster of one of the two outstanding orchestras in the German capital in the interwar period, the Berlin State Opera orchestra (the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra was the other), where he became a protégé of Richard Strauss, who often conducted this orchestra (see above).
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On New Year's Eve, 1956, Hidy and her husband, Anton (Antal) Dvorak fled Hungary to Austria, with their two children, eventually emigrating to Canada. The family settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1957 where Hidy worked as assistant concertmaster of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra, in addition to founding the Hidy String Quartet and the Hidy Trio. She made her Canadian concert debut in Toronto in 1962 and her trio, which included pianist Chester Duncan and cellist Klara Benjamin Belkin, recorded works by Dmitri Shostakovich at Expo 67's Canadian Pavilion. In 1965 Hidy was invited to McMaster University by Lee Hepner, then head of the McMaster Operatic Society, where she became a founding member of the University's music program.
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Blake Espy is a U.S violinist with a bachelors in music performance from Western Michigan University, a masters in music from Louisiana State University and an artist's diploma from SUNY Purchase. He regularly performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Opera Philadelphia, the Grand Rapids Symphony and the Princeton Symphony, as well as concertmaster with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra and the Western Piedmont Symphony . In 2007, Espy became a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach where he performs as concertmaster and chamber musician as well as teaches young musicians. That same year, he co-founded Project 440, a non- profit dedicated to training young classical musicians through community programs.
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Murphy has been guest leader with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra. He then spent eight years with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Principal Violinist and regular Guest Concertmaster, working with conductors such as Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Sir Charles Mackerras and Colin Davis. In 2002, Murphy was appointed as Concertmaster for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House under the baton of Simone Young. In 1993, he was a founding member of the 'Soloists of the Royal Opera House', and in 2002 he founded the 'Utzon Ensemble' that played at the inaugural concert in the newly refurbished Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House in addition to a series of chamber music concerts in Sydney from 2002–2008.
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Steinhardt attended Lawrence High School and was the concertmaster during his high school years. He has often said that joining a rock band caused him to develop poor playing habits, one of which is holding his violin to the side of his head to hear himself better through the guitar amps and PA system.
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The chamber orchestra Kammerorchester Basel (also: Kammerorchesterbasel) was founded in Basel, Switzerland, in 1984. In the tradition of Paul Sacher's Basler Kammerorchester, its focus is on both early music and contemporary classical music. Concertmaster is Julia Schröder. The Basel Chamber Orchestra is recognised as one of the leading chamber orchestras in the classical music scene.
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An unusual use of ossia is found in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto where several ossia parts are included for the solo violin. If the soloist chooses to play these, the concertmaster is required to play a different ossia (which takes part of the solo violin line that is lost in favor of the soloist's ossia).
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Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (born July 15, 1960) is an American violinist. Currently assistant professor of violin and viola at the University of Nevada, Reno, she served as concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony from 1994 until 2007, during which time she appeared annually as soloist with the orchestra. Her father is nationally acclaimed cellist John Sant'Ambrogio.
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Created in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris is composed of 43 permanent musicians. The Scottish conductor Douglas Boyd has been Music Director since 2015.Douglas Boyd at the Orchestre de chambre de Paris: l'engagement par la musique, France TV Info, 5 October 2015 Sir Roger Norrington is conductor. The Concertmaster is Deborah Nemtanu.
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Wu Ting-yu () is a Taiwanese violinist. He currently serves as the concertmaster in Taiwan's leading National Symphony Orchestra. Born in Kaohsiung, Wu began to study violin at age of 5 with his father, Wu Lian-jing, a prestigious painter and violinist. Since then, he had studied with some of Taiwan's most renowned violinists.
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In 1789, he was appointed concertmaster at the court of Heinrich of Prussia in Rheinsberg, replacing J. A. P. Schulz, who was called to Denmark as a choir director at the Royal Danish Orchestra (Danish: Det Kongelige Kapel). Du Puy worked in Rheinsberg for four years while studying harmonies under Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch.
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Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from business school, Bartoš left for France. He played as a concertmaster of the Messageries Maritimes naval company in Marseille. From 1929 to 1931 he travelled with that company to Africa, Asia and Madagascar.
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In 1937, general music director Karl Elmendorff appointed him concertmaster at the Mannheim National Theatre. As a soloist he played under renowned conductors such as Arthur Nikisch and Carl Schuricht. He performed among others at the Wiesbaden Festival and the Rheinische Musikfest. He has worked together with Wolfgang Ruoff and Georg Schumann in chamber music.
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Ignace Jang is concertmaster. Previous music directors included Fritz Hart (1937–49), George Barati (1950-1967), Robert La Marchina, Donald Johanos (1979–94) and JoAnn Falletta (artistic advisor). In 2014, the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra debuted its popular series musicthatPOPS, featuring Broadway music, Disney in Concert, Cirque de la Symphonie and Zelda in Concert, among others.
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Blasius joined the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique as a violinist in 1788, and became its concertmaster (and conductor) on 19 April 1790,Pougin (1891), pp. 34-5, 35n. a position he held up to 1801 and again from 1804 to 1816 (or 1818).Noiray, Michel. "Blasius [Blassius], (Matthieu-)Frédéric" in Sadie (1992) 1: 498.
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Rowman and Littlefield, London 2015 p. 150 A Dictionary for the Modern Composer – Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 and the Interlochen Center for the Arts on books.google.com Now known as the "Interlochen Theme", it is conducted by a student concertmaster after the featured conductor has left the stage. Traditionally, no applause follows its performance.
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Around his twenty-fourth birthday Prince Leopold hired a number of visiting musicians, including the singers Prese and , as concertmaster and Johann Gottfried Vogler who was engaged at the , the Collegium Musicum and the of Leipzig in the late 1710s.Geck, Martin, translated by John Hargraves (2006). Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Frederick Thorkildsen Wexschall (born 9 April 1798 in Copenhagen, died 25 October 1845) was a Danish classical composer, violinist, and concertmaster of the Copenhagen Royal Orchestra. A pupil of Bohemian composer František Martin Pecháček and German conductor Louis Spohr, Wexschall was married to the Danish stage actress and mezzo-soprano opera singer Anna Nielsen.
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Gruenberg was born in Vienna in 1924, the son of Kathrine and Herman Gruenberg. He studied in Vienna and at the Jerusalem Conservatory. He was concertmaster of the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra from 1938 to 1945. In 1946, he moved to London where he lived until his death, becoming a British subject in 1950.
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In 1843, Francilla married and not long after that retired from the stage. Pixis then turned his attention to the musical training of his nephew Theodor Pixis (1831-1856), who subsequently became concertmaster in Cologne and instructor in the Rheinische Musikschule but died suddenly.Lucian Schiwietz, Johann Peter Pixis, Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, 1994, p. 331.
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Leonard Sorkin (January 12, 1916 - June 7, 1985) was an American violinist. Sorkin was born in Chicago in 1916. He received violin training from Mischa Mischakoff. At the age of 18, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he remained until 1943. Sorkin served as concertmaster of the ABC Symphony from 1946 to 1954.
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The violin was not recovered until 2005. Borok served as Dallas Symphony concertmaster until his retirement in 2010. Borok taught at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. In 2013, he joined the violin faculty at the Meadows School of the Arts of Southern Methodist University as an artist-in- residence.
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Under Prof. Epstein, the orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall and made several LP recordings. David Epstein's tenure ended in the spring of 1998 upon his retirement from the Institute. The MITSO has also performed with artists such as Peter Schickele, when he performed works of P.D.Q. Bach as a dog chained to the concertmaster.
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Then in 1788, he was appointed concertmaster of the Opéra-Comique orchestra. Between 1788 and 1791, he conducted the orchestra of the Concert Spirituel. In 1791 Bertheaume left France and held several posts in northern Germany until 1801. Via Copenhagen and Stockholm he emigrated to Russia, where he became first violin in the tsar's court orchestra.
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Born in Bordeaux, Darrieux graduated from the Conservatoire de Bordeaux (1906) then from the Conservatoire de Paris (1912). Henri Berthelier and Lucien Capet were among his teachers. From 1921 he belonged to the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique. Simultaneously, in the early 1920s he was concertmaster of the Concerts Koussevitzky orchestra under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky.
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Since 2002 she has been sharing with Luc Héry the position of concertmaster of the Orchestre national de France with whom she also performs as soloist. This situation led her to be invited by famous conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Colin Davis and Riccardo Muti. In 2009, she performed Tchaikovsky's Violon Concerto in the film Le Concert.
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Andrew Hugh Michael Maguire (2 August 1926 – 14 June 2013) was an Irish violinist, leader, concertmaster and principal player of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1962–1967), leader of the Melos Ensemble and the Allegri Quartet, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and violin tutor to the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
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Each of the members required instruments. The Honcharenko brothers set up a workshop in the DP camp where they were made and taught some of the members to make banduras. The establishment of the Leontovych Capella was a very successful experiment. In the 1930s Nazarenko was the concertmaster of the Poltava and later Combined Bandurist Capella.
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He appeared as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony in 1956. In addition, he was first violinist of Ford Foundation Young Audiences String Quartet from 1960-1968. At the seminary, he conducted the Chapel Choir, the Schola Cantorum and the Seminary Chorus. He also held the position of concertmaster with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Civic Orchestras.
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The music director during the entire life of the Columbus Philharmonic was Izler Solomon. Solomon later became music director of the Indianapolis Symphony. Solomon wanted to hire African American musicians, and brought in Carolyn Utz, a bassist, around 1944 as the orchestra's first black musician. In 1951, the Philharmonic's former concertmaster, George Hardesty, started the Columbus Little Symphony.
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On 1. October 1875, aged twenty years, Sahla joined the court orchestra (Hofkapelle) of Schaumburg-Lippe as a first solo-violinist for eight months. After which he accepted the post of prime-concertmaster (Konzertmeister) in Gothenburg, Sweden. From 1878 to 1880 he was a member of the Orchestra of the Vienna Royal Opera where he was a celebrated soloist.
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Born in New York City, Winter became a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini at its inception in 1937 and was its youngest member. He was concertmaster of the NBC staff orchestra from 1954 to 1958. Beginning 1958, Winter devoted his career to recording sessions and television. He died in Forest Hills, Queens in 1992.
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He won the International Chamber Music Competition in Venice in 1962 and became concertmaster of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra the next year.This detail is from the article by Joseph Stevenson, in Allmusic. The Voss brothers are Rhinelanders. They studied with Sandor Végh, and Hermann continued as a pupil of Ulrich Koch, becoming solo violist of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
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Mayseder showed musical promise from an early age, and was a student of Joseph Suche (1797), Paul Wranitzky (1798) and Ignaz Schuppanzigh. By the age of eleven, he was performing in public concerts at the Augarten in Vienna. He received lessons in composition from Emanuel Aloys Förster. In 1810, he was appointed concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera.
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Jela Špiková in Japan After her studies, Špitková founded the Suchoň Quartet and the Slovakian Trio, gave televised concerts, and made many recordings. She performed with the Bratislava Women's Chamber Orchestra. From 1975 until 1980 Špitková gave more than 800 concerts in 60 countries. In 1979 she was appointed concertmaster of the Radio symphony orchestra of Copenhagen.
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Royal Academy of Music trained musician Carl Denton was a major force in helping the Portland Symphony Society enter a new era. The board of directors was elected and a manager hired. Orchestra members continued to elect their conductors for the 1911/1912 season. The order of conductor and concertmaster rotation was determined by drawing lots.
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While a student there she notably toured Western Canada with pianist Diedre Irons in 1966–1967 in concerts sponsored by the Jeunesses musicales of Canada and served as associate concertmaster of the Orchestra of the JM International Federation in Paris in 1967. She later studied music privately with Ivan Galamian and Jascha Heifetz in the United States.
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In 1982, Wu graduated with the highest honor from the National Academy of Arts (later renamed as National Taiwan University of Arts). He later served as the concertmaster of National Defense Symphony Orchestra and Taipei Symphony Orchestra. In 1988, he entered the Ville de Rueil-Malmaison Conservatoire in France under the guidance of Prof. Melle Brignon.
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Andrew Ling (凌顯祐) is a Hong Kong violist. , he is the principal violist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He has performed solo performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic to critical acclaim. In the past, he had assumed the role of concertmaster at the Indiana University (IU) Concert Orchestra and the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra .
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Franz Amon was the lead violinist and concertmaster of the dance orchestra of Johann Strauss I. As the elder Strauss was against a musical career for his sons, Amon was contracted secretly by Anna Strauss to teach her son Johann Strauss II, to play the violin. Johann paid for the lessons by giving piano lessons to other students.
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Norman Carol in concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing The Skrowaczewski Violin Concerto Norman Carol (born July 1, 1928) is an American violinist and former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 29 years with conductors Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Stanisław Skrowaczewski's Violin Concerto was dedicated to and premiered by Carol with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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At ages 13 and 14 Kim himself served as concertmaster of the World Youth Orchestra at Michigan's National Music Camp at Interlochen. Both summers Itzhak Perlman was soloist with the Orchestra. For five years he played across the lake from Plattsburgh in Burlington, with the Vermont Youth Orchestra. At the time it was conducted by Maestro David Dworkin.
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Mehta was born in Bombay, India to a Parsi family. His involvement in music stemmed from his birth. As a young violinist his main musical influence and inspiration was Jascha Heifetz. A pioneering figure in the Indian musical world, he founded the Bombay Symphony Orchestra in 1935, and was its Concertmaster (1935–1945) and conductor (1945–1955).
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Mela Tenenbaum, born in Ukraine, is a classical violinist and violist, also playing viola d'amore. She graduated from the Kiev Conservatory and performed the Kiev Philharmonic and other orchestras. She inspired composers such as Dmitri Klebanov to write pieces for her. She emigrated to the United States and was from the early 1990s concertmaster of the Philharmonia Virtuosi.
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Tenenbaum studied music at the Kiev Conservatory and obtained a master's degree. She performed with the Kiev Chamber Orchestra and the Kiev Philharmonic from 1979. She was also a soloist and concertmaster with the chamber orchestra Perpetuum Mobile, an ensemble supported by the Ukrainian Union of Composers. Several Russian and Ukrainian composers wrote works for her which she premiered.
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Despite the intercession of the principal conductor, the Polish violinist Szymon Goldberg, ostracized as a "Half-Jew", who was still on tour in the United Kingdom, lost his position as first concertmaster in the summer of 1934; See Szymon Goldberg on Universität Hamburg. Misha Aster: "Das Reichsorchester". Die Berliner Philharmoniker und der Nationalsozialismus. Siedler, Munich 2007, , .
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Benjamin Ziervogel, born on April 1983 in Klagenfurt, Austria, is an Austrian violinist. Since 2002, he is a concertmaster of RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra.RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra - Members He performs as concert soloist and a chamber musician as well. In 1992, he was accepted to the violin class of Brian Finlayson at the Carinthian State Conservatory.
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Franz Anton Xaverius Ries Franz Anton Xaverius Ries (November 10, 1755 - November 1, 1846) was a German violinist. His father Johann Ries (1723–1784) was court trumpeter to the Elector of Cologne in Bonn. Ries was born in Bonn, and studied under J.P. Salomon. He was a child prodigy, and was concertmaster of the Kurfürstlichen Hoforchester in Vienna.
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He moved to Lucerne, Switzerland to attend masterclasses with Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and subsequently became a member, then concertmaster, of the chamber orchestra Lucerne Festival Strings."New drama examines wild southwest Ontario family". Lethbridge Herald, via Newspaper Archives. 15 August 1979 – Page 32 He toured with the ensemble in Europe, South Africa and the Middle East.
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We did it." He goes on to say, "I did one tour as concertmaster and I got to know [Yanni] very, very well." "[Yanni] heavily relies on his instincts, and I am happy to say, they're usually good. Especially when it comes to people, when it comes to audiences, when it comes to music, and what's expected of him.
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In 1927, Alexander became leader (concertmaster) of an orchestra in Saarbrücken. It was at this point that he changed his name. The conductor wanted him as leader, but wanted a German-sounding name. Abram took Schneider as a surname because his brother Mischa had already chosen it, and Alexander appealed to him as a first name.
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He became assistant conductor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He returned to Australia in 1953 and played with the Queensland and Sydney symphony orchestras. In 1961 he became leader and later deputy conductor of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra. In 1965 he became concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), and later assistant conductor.
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Henri Temianka's students included Leo Berlin (who became concertmaster of the Stockholm Philharmonic), Nina Bodnar (who won the 1982 Thibaud International Competition in Paris), Amalia Castillo, Alison Dalton (subsequently in the first violin section of the Chicago Symphony), Marilyn Doty, Eugene Fodor, Michael Mann, Dolores Miller, Phyllis Moad, Karen Tuttle (who later became a violist) and Camilla Wicks.
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Hebel originated and helped create the violin and concertmaster role in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's 2005 Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza. Hebel began work on the show in 2002 in New York City and performed in productions in Seattle in 2003 and on Broadway in 2005. The show was awarded 6 Tony Awards in 2005.
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Christian Hebel (born December 29, 1975) is an American violinist, producer, songwriter and concertmaster. He has appeared on multi-Platinum, Gold, Emmy Award, Academy Awards, Tony Award, and Grammy Award winning recordings as well as film scores and Broadway theatre. An accomplished live and recorded musician, Christian is also Artistic Director for the National YoungArts Foundation.
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Julia Krasko was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Grigory Krasko, was a concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Her mother, Olga Kondratieva, is a pianist and a professor in Gnessin State Musical College. She graduated from Gnessin Music School, where she studied under Irina Svetlova, and from Moscow Conservatory, where her teacher was Maya Glezarova.
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Within a year of his arrival, Samuel was appointed concertmaster, first violinist and intermittent court composer in the Royal Court of Emperor Franz Josef. Once Sherman had secured a position in the orchestra, wife Lena and their children, Olga, Avrum (later "Al" or "Albert"), Edith and Regina arrived in Prague where they lived for about six years.
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He was involved with the ABC for much of his working life, leading the ABC String Quartet (1949–52), appearing as soloist or concertmaster in many ABC concerts and broadcasts, conducting the ABC School Orchestral concerts, as an adjudicator for the ABC Concerto and Vocal Competitions and as a member of the Canberra Advisory Committee of the ABC.
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Srauss has appeared as soloist with the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Academy Orchestra, and with orchestras in Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Seoul, Shanghai, Bucharest, and Cincinnati, among others. He has also appeared as guest concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Strauss performs on a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Turin 1845.
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He enjoyed a considerable solo career but was also engaged as concertmaster of several orchestras including those of Berlin, Boston, Glasgow and Winnipeg. He was also credited for the invention of the electric triangle. He died in San Sebastián in 1939. As a composer he is probably best known for his piano trio Tres Piezas Originales en Estilo Español.
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Barry Ulanov was born in Manhattan, New York.Barry Ulanov Article from Columbia University Archive Published 5 May 2000. Retrieved 4 June 2013. Ulanov received early instruction on the violin from his father Nathan who was concertmaster for Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra but Barry ceased playing the instrument after a car crash in which he broke both wrists.
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Ricardo Odnoposoff (February 24, 1914 – October 26, 2004) was a Jewish Argentine-Austrian-American violinist of the 20th century. He was a former concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic. He was dismissed on September 1, 1938 because he was unable to produce an Ariernachweis (Aryan certificate). He eventually became a citizen of the United States.
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Borok spent 11 years in his Boston posts. In 1985, he won the position of concertmaster in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and joined the Dallas Symphony that year. He initially performed on a Stradivarius violin dating from ca. 1727, owned by the Dallas Symphony, until its theft that year whilst he and the orchestra were on tour.
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He plays violin and had joined choir in school. He received a diploma from the Royal Academy of Music and joined the Hong Kong Youth Orchestra in 1964. He went on became the concertmaster of the Orchestra in 1966 and coach in 1968. Upon retirement, he co-founded the Music for Our Young Foundation and others.
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Ole Rødder (1743-1806) was Norwegian violinist. He became the first paid musician of Bergen's Musikselskabet Harmonien in 1783, serving as concertmaster of the orchestra, which later became the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Rødder was a stadsmusikant (town musician) in Bergen from 1789. He was a regular visitor to the Altona tavern, where the orchestra rehearsed in its early days.
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Johan Henrich Poulson was a Danish violinist. He was a student of Giovanni Battista Viotti. He relocated to Bergen, Norway in 1799, and stayed there until 1826. While in Bergen, he became Ole Bull's first teacher, was active as a recitalist, and also served as concertmaster for Musikselskabet Harmonien (which later became the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra).
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The huqin series of instruments in common usage consist of the erhu, zhonghu and gaohu. The gaohu (highest-pitched of the series) and zhonghu (lowest- pitched huqin) are proportionately fewer in numbers in the Chinese orchestra. The erhu forms the bulk of this section and is divided into distinct sections, known as erhu I and erhu II. These two sub-sections play either similar or vastly different melodies simultaneously, which is akin to the first and second violins in a Western orchestra. Occasionally, the concertmaster will play the banhu but it may not always be the concertmaster - an example is the piece Mang Chun (忙春), or jinghu, for instance in Zhao Ji Ping's Festival Overture (慶典序曲), if there is a solo part for it.
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Tomasz Tomaszewski, PM () is a Polish violinist and the first concertmaster in Deutsche Oper Berlin. Born in Czechowice, Poland. He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music, then the Leningrad Conservatory and later in Freiburg, he also attended master classes with Fyodor Druzhinin, Oleh Krysa, Pierre Fournier, Liebermann, Hiller and Szerny. He is a professor on Berlin University of the Arts.
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From 1929 to 1931 Blinder and his wife and daughter remained in New York while he taught at the Juilliard School. Around this time, Blinder's teenage daughter died of tuberculosis. In 1931, Issay Dobrowen offered Blinder the concertmaster position at the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He accepted and moved to San Francisco where he also played under Pierre Monteux and Enrique Jorda.
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Biographies, Quartet San Francisco. Accessed on February 12, 2010. A native of Maine, Matthew Szemela joined the quartet in 2012. He has toured and recorded with singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia, recorded with Sufjan Stevens, and in 2006 served as concertmaster of the Hustla Symphony Orchestra for Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt 10th Anniversary Concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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Community of Madrid Orchestra performing at Plaza Mayor, Madrid. The Community of Madrid Orchestra (), founded in 1987, is a symphony orchestra in Madrid, Spain. It is the resident orchestra at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and performs its concert programs at the Auditorio Nacional de Música. The current principal conductor is José Ramón Encinar and the first concertmaster is Víctor Arriola.
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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 Music where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling & Alexander Speyer Jr. Endowed Chair. He is also the current Artistic Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic.
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Siegl was born on December 28, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan to a Jewish-American family. His father, Henry Siegl, was a concert violinist who, starting in 1956, served as the concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for 26 years. His mother, Eleanor Shapiro Siegl, PhD, was an educator and founder of The Little School, now located on a campus in Kirkland, Washington.
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In 1968 Henryk immigrated to Holland by special invitation of the conductor Willem van Oterloo, to follow after Herman Krebbers the office of concertmaster of the Residentie Orchestra. With the orchestra he went on world tour several times. After a gastric illness he decided to change to the first violins in the same orchestra until his retirement, in addition he devoted the teaching.
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She was giving solo performances and was participating in concerts featuring music, poetry and drama by Yiddish actors Leah and Joseph Kolins. She made numerous recordings of contemporary Jewish songs. Her last two albums were recorded in collaboration with concertmaster/pianist David Ashkenazi (the father of the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazi) and the Soviet State Broadcast Pop Orchestra under direction of Vladimir Terletsky.
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The outbreak of the First World War brought him back to the Netherlands. Upon his return he was appointed concertmaster of the Residence Orchestra in Den Haag. During that time, Swaap was a member of two chamber ensembles: the Haagsche Strijkwartet and the Frenkel Trio. Swaap's friend, Charles van Isterdael, played cello in both ensembles and also in the Residence Orchestra.
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She was invited by Kira to conduct the orchestra at the Seiso Academy Festival and she was responsible for guiding Kahoko, the concertmaster for the festival. Mari is an alumna of Seiso and was a participant in the concours with Shinobu, of which she lost to him. She appears to care a lot about Shinobu, but the latter remains oblivious to this.
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Chen used her time spent laboring in the countryside to learn and appreciate Chinese folk culture. Her connection with Chinese music would prove a useful tool in finding her own voice for her musical compositions in later life. At age seventeen, she returned to Guangzhou and began working as concertmaster in the orchestra of the Beijing Opera Troupe in Guangzhou.
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In August 2008 Warren-Green appeared in the reality TV talent show-themed television series, Maestro on BBC Two, as a mentor to Jane Asher, one of the students. Warren-Green is married to Rosemary Furniss, a violinist, and artistic director and concertmaster of the LCO. They have three children and three stepchildren.Steven Brown, "Symphony's new director is booster, too".
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Martin Riseley (born 10 February 1969 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a violinist and Head of Strings (violin) at the New Zealand School of Music. Formerly, he was concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Riseley began violin studies at age 6, and gave his first solo concert at age 10. He studied with Carl Pini, Dorothy DeLay, and Felix Galimir.
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He conducted a small orchestra at the festivals organized by the French patron Alexandre Jean Joseph de la Riche. In all, he spent a decade and a half in France. In 1914, he returned to Cuba, where he became a teacher at the Conservatorio Falcón. He also served as concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of this institution, directed by the pianist Alberto Falcón.
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Klaus Maetzl (1941 – 4 May 2016) was an Austrian violinist, noted as a founder of the Alban Berg Quartet. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with , and studied further with Max Rostal. From 1967 to 1970, he was concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony."Alban Berg Quartet founding violinist Klaus Maetzl has died" The Strad, 11 May 2016.
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He remained a prisoner of war in Belgium until 1946. After stays in Hamburg and Leipzig he became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1948 and later its concertmaster. He was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet and founder of the Leipziger Kammerorchesters. He was also a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and Leipzig.
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In 1970 he became the concertmaster of Sir Roger Norrington's London Classical Players, and later Andrew Parrott's Taverner Consort and Players. Besides playing in numerous Baroque orchestras, he is a noted musicologist and lecturer. Holloway has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Schola Cantorum in Basel, and the Early Music Institute of Indiana University in Bloomington.
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Oscar Ravina (April 27, 1930 – February 25, 2010), born in Warsaw, Poland, was a violinist, violin teacher and concertmaster based in New York, who has had a prolific career as a performer as well as being a current professor emeritus at Montclair State University, where a talent grant in his name is regularly given to outstanding full-time freshmen studying string instruments.
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After the Second World War, Strub was temporarily accepted in Wels in Upper Austria by the composer friend Johann Nepomuk David. The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg then engaged him for three years as concertmaster. At the Salzburg Festival in 1946 he performed Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with the orchestra conducted by Joseph Messner.Suchanfrage nach Künstler „Max Strub“ im Archiv der Salzburger Festspiele, archive.salzburgerfestspiele.
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From 1962 to 1968 he was engaged as study director and concertmaster with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, whose principal conductors were Jean Martinon and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. From 1964 he played chamber music as successor of Oscar C. Yatco the 2nd violin in the famous Stross Quartet.Stegmüller states in his documentation from 1964 to 1966, vgl. Jürgen Stegmüller: Das Streichquartett.
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27, 2015, Cheng Wai and Jing Wang, Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, performed in the James Christie room at the Convention Centre for Christie's selling exhibition The Art of Music. In 2017, Cheng Wai launched her "Dessiner la MusiqueCheng Wai Piano Recital China Tour" (《詩琴畫意》2017中國巡演) with Beijing Poly Theatre Management Ltd..
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Among his students were Joseph Joachim, Leopold Auer, and his two sons. He was concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera from 1830 after the death of Ignaz Schuppanzigh and a member of the court orchestra (Hofmusikkapelle). He was Kapellmeister of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1842 until he became pensioner at 1867. He composed two violin concertos, string quartets, variations solo violin works.
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Hanke came from the Bohemian city of Levín in the then Austria-Hungary. He joined the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra in 1927 under the principal conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. In 1932/33 he was an active member of the orchestra, finally as second concertmaster. In 1931 he was also a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, which was conducted by Furtwängler at the time.
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Gérard Jarry (Châtellerault, 6 June 1936 – Saint-Eliph, 18 January 2004) was a French classical violinist. In June 1951, he won the "Premier Grand Prix" at the Concours-Long-Thibaud, at the age of 14. In 1959, he founded the String Trio French, alongside Serge Collot and Michel Tournus. In 1969, he joined Jean-François Paillard's Chamber Orchestra as concertmaster.
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Vinyl record album notes. Born in Chicago, he was the youngest of four children of Russian immigrants. He showed great talent as a violinist from an early age, appearing on national radio at the age of six. By the age of 22 Baker was concertmaster of Leopold Stokowski’s All-American Youth Orchestra. Later he was a member of Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Jukka-Pekka Saraste, chief conductor from 1987 to 2001, is now the orchestra's honorary conductor. Sakari Oramo was chief conductor from 2003 to 2012, having earlier been concertmaster of the orchestra. In December 2010, the orchestra announced the appointment of Hannu Lintu as its eighth chief conductor, as of the 2013-2014 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.
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The remaining were Metropolitan concerts. As third conductor and concertmaster in 1904-05, he was paid $4045. Beginning in 1908, he led open-air concerts in Central Park, and it was largely through his efforts to make good music popular by performing these al fresco concerts did NYC and the Metropolitan Opera begin the habit of performing free outdoor performances.
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While at Yale, he served as concertmaster for the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra and New Music Ensemble. He continued his education at the USC Thornton School of Music where he earned his graduate certificate degree and Doctorate studying under Midori. Aside from majors, Simeonov holds minors in Schenkerian analysis, viola performance, Japanese language, and explored the interpretation of the Balkan folk music.
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Mann was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His father worked as a tailor and a grocer. Mann began his study of the violin at age nine; at 13, he was accepted into the class of Edouard Hurlimann, concertmaster of the Portland Symphony. He attended the Portland Youth Philharmonic, but had planned to become a forest ranger in his youth.
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Echoes from Ugarit includes original music compositions for piano and orchestra recorded with The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra with Seregey Kondrashev as a conductor, and Andrey Kudryavtsev concertmaster. This is the first arrangement of the oldest music notation in the world. The release of “Echoes from Ugarit” was accompanied by a hugely successful tour of the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
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Koert was born in Rotterdam, where he studied the violin. There, in the beginning of the 1880s, he joined the Bilse Orchestra of Ostend as second concertmaster. After moving to Paris, he briefly joined the Anton Rubinstein Quintet with which he toured Europe. In June 1889, he moved to the United States where he played with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra of Chicago.
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In 2003, she recorded, with SFS Assistant Concertmaster Mark Volkert and cellist Jan Volkert, a disc of Mr. Volkert's transcriptions for string trio entitled Delectable Pieces. In 2013, she released a cd of the music of Johannes Brahms, which includes the two viola sonata (F minor and E-flat major) and the Trio in A minor for Viola, Violoncello and Piano.
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Dene Maxwell Olding (born 11 October 1956) is an Australian violinist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, performing over forty concertos in recent years, including many world premieres. He is the Concertmaster Emeritus of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, first violinist in the Goldner String Quartet, and a member of the Australia Ensemble.
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Violins: Bruce Dukov (concertmaster), Charles Bisharat, Darius Campo, Roberto Cani, Ron Clark, Kevin Connolly, Joel Derouin, Nina Evtuhov, Neel Hammond, Natalie Leggett, Robin Olson, Joel Parcman, Sara Parkins, Katia Popov, Neil Samples, Ina Veli. Violas: Brian Dembrow (principal), Robert Brophy, Andrew Duckles, Alma Fernandez, Harry Shirinian, David Walther. Celli: Armen Ksajikian (principal), Alisha Bauer, Tina Soule, John Walz. Flute: Steve Kujala.
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Greg Bartheld, production assistant to Mr. Calandrelli. Sonya Belousova, assistant to Mr. Calandrelli. Orchestra: arranged and conducted by Nan Schwartz (tracks 11 & 14). Violins: Bruce Dukov (concertmaster), Maiani da Silva, Mario Deleon, Lisa Dondlinger, Neel Hammond, Elizabeth Hedman, Johana Krejci, Marissa Kuney, Lorand Lokuszta, Cindy Moussas, Reiko Nakano, Radu Pieptea, Mark Robertson, Julie Rogers, Neil Samples, Jenny Takamatsu, Irina Voloshina, Adriana Zoppo.
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After graduating in 1935 he was hired by the Kyiv Bandurist Capella. In 1937 he became concertmaster and in 1939 the assistant conductor. During this time Kytasty's first arrangements and compositions began to be played and recorded by the Capella. With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Kiev State Bandurist Capella was disbanded and its members were mobilized to the front.
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Mikhail Kopelman is a Russian-American violinist. He was born in 1947 in the Transkarpathian city of 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 Competition. He was a member of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, and was a concertmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
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William Barbini is an American violin player. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 1970. He began his career as a member of the New York Philharmonic orchestra and served as concertmaster for the Joffrey Ballet. During his time in New York he could often be heard in chamber music ensembles, and giving recitals as a soloist with the Norwalk Festival Orchestra.
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Biographical information on Baillou is fragmentary. Born in Milan from Francesco Baillou, he probably studied violin under the guidance of Nicolas Capron in Paris. From 1762 he lived in Stuttgart, where he worked in the court orchestra of the Duke of Württemberg, of which he became concertmaster in 1771. Dismissed in 1774, he moved to Milan, where he dwelled till his death.
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Hebel worked with Rufus Wainwright in 2006 serving as Concertmaster for his sold-out tribute concerts at Carnegie Hall to American actress and singer Judy Garland, titled Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. The live concert recording was released as a two disc set through Geffen Records in December 2007 and earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
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His name appears on many recordings. From 1976 to 1988 he was concertmaster of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam. Kooper held university positions, lectured, and published articles on music. Kooper gave hundreds of concerts in America, Europe, Russia and the Far East. He performed at New York’s Carnegie, Steinway, Merkin and Town Halls, the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick Gallery and other venues.
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Aleknaitė-Abramikienė was born to a family of civil servants in Lyduvėnai, Raseiniai district, Lithuania on 4 May 1957. In 1975 Aleknaitė-Abramikienė graduated from M.K. Čiurlionis art school, in 1980 - from the Lithuanian Conservatory, as a pianist and musicologist. From 1980 she worked at the conservatory as a concertmaster and instructor. Aleknaitė-Abramikienė joined the activities of Sąjūdis in 1988.
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Stephen Clapp, violin, with student at East Carolina University, Dec. 2, 2005 As a member of the Beaux-Arts String Quartet, Clapp won the first Naumburg Chamber Music Award. He won the Josef Gingold Prize of the Cleveland Society for Strings while a student at the Oberlin Conservatory. Clapp was concertmaster of the Aspen Chamber Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
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After graduating W.C. Miller Collegiate, she attended the University of British Columbia where she completed her undergrad in violin performance under Andrew Dawes. She then attended Florida International University for one year studying under Robert Davidovici, and then transferred to the University of Miami Frost School of Music on full scholarship for her master's degree in violin performance where she studied with Robert Rozek.Pembina Valley Online, Sunday, February 5, 2012 – Violinist Rosemary Siemens Makes It To Top 20 Of Talent Search While studying in Miami, she was concertmaster for the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, guest conductor for the Florida Youth Symphony, and was a member of Ibis Trio that performed across the US, Belgrade, Macedonia, Switzerland, and Italy. She also performed with the Miami Bach Society Chamber Orchestra as concertmaster on a tour of France.
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He also served as concertmaster for the recent and upcoming films The Hunt, Shaft, The Biggest Little Farm, The House with A Clock in Its Walls, Triple Frontier, The Nun, and Under the Silver Lake, in addition to previous films including Baywatch, Pitch Perfect 3, Contagion, Much Ado About Nothing, Ride Along 1 & 2, Premium Rush, Blackfish, Merchants of Doubt, and Horrible Bosses 1 & 2\. He has conducted ensembles at the Aspen Music Festival, the Coachella Music Festival (Wu-Tang Clan), and for Access Hollywood (Carly Rae Jepsen). On the pop music side of things, Mark has worked with Logic, A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera, Billy Childs, Daughtry, OneRepublic, the Fray, and Kelly Clarkson, among others. He recently served as concertmaster for Il Volo's performance at the Dolby Theater (Hollywood), and for Idina Menzel’s performance at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Several BandArt interpretation had been recorded: Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck had been performed by BandArt and La Fura dels Baus at Castell de Peralada’s Festival in 2011. It was recorded by Unitel Classical, available in DVD and also in YouTube. Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concert No. 4 in G major, BandArt Orchestra with Javier Perianes, piano; Gordan Nikolic, concertmaster; were recorded at the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid for Los clásicos the TV program of classical music on RTVE in 2008. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92), BandArt Orchestra; Gordan Nikolic, concertmaster; were recorded at the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid for Los clásicos the TV program of classical music on RTVE in February 2008. The documentary “BandArt” by Iván Valdés shows how the orchestra works.
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When he was but four years of age, he could perform pieces of moderate difficulty upon the piano, and began the study of the violin. At the early age of fifteen he appeared before the public with several concertos for the violin, which were received with general applause, and resulted in his being appointed leading violinist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. This position he occupied till 1806, when he became concertmaster to the duke Peter I of Oldenburg. In 1808 he was appointed solo- violinist by King Jerome of Westphalia at state theater of Cassel, and there he remained till the end of the French occupation (1814), when he went to Vienna (where a possible meeting between him and Beethoven occurred) , and soon afterwards to Karlsruhe, having been appointed concertmaster to the grand duke of Baden.
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She is currently Concertmaster of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center during the summer and Co- Concertmaster of the Orchestra of St. Luke's year-round at Carnegie Hall and throughout the summer at the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, New York. Ms. Feeney has performed as a soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the St. Louis Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York String Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Brandenburg Ensemble and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a member of the Loma Mar quartet, she recorded new quartet compositions by Paul McCartney for his 1999 CD entitled Working Classical (EMI Records). She was a student of Isadore Tinkelman and Stuart Canin's at the San Francisco Conservatory, and later studied with Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimer at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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When César was 18, he was a symphonic violin soloist. He attended the University of Havana, earning a doctorate in music, and stood as the Havana Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster at age 21. He married and fathered a son, César Gonzalez, Jr., who would eventually join the United States Department of State as a career diplomat. That son had no connection to the family restaurant business.
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SSO's principal conductor is Byeong-Hwa Kim since 1969. The orchestra also plays under Jeong-Gyun Kim (associate principal conductor), Ho-Yun Kim (associate principal conductor), Gwang-Seong Choi (associate conductor), Mun-Yeong Heo (associate conductor) and other guest conductors include Il-Jin Kim, Yeong-Sang Han, Jeong-Rim Jo, Jun-Mu Lee, Hong-Jae Kim and Francis Travis. SSO's concertmaster is Gi-Hyeok Choi.
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He later played in various symphony orchestras as concertmaster, then as a tenured member of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France from 2000 to 2003. In 2004, he founded the now composed of the pianist Romain Descharmes and the cellist Éric-Maria Couturier. The Trio marked an important turning point in his musical life. Supported by Martha Argerich, they were invited to festivals in Europe and Asia.
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Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Belasco attended St. Joseph College in Yokohama, Japan, and trained as a musician in Japan and Manchuria. He was briefly the concertmaster of the Japanese-Russian Symphony Orchestra, a predecessor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. When his family moved to California, Belasco found occasional work in Hollywood. He made his film debut in 1926 in the silent film The Best People.
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Piérot studied music at the Conservatoire de Lyon. In 1988, she turned to baroque music and became concertmaster of Marc Minkowski's orchestra, Les Musiciens du LouvreBiographie on amarillis.fr and recorded operas by Rameau, Mondonville and Marais... (issued by Erato). She also makes recordings with Jean-Patrice Brosse's ensemble Concerto Rococo, for the Pierre Verany label (Schobert) and Florence Malgoire's Les Nièces de Rameau (CPE Bach, Rameau, Purcell).
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Born in Yekaterinburg, Nesterova studied music composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Boris Tishchenko from 1995 to 2000. She continued on at the Conservatory to pursue further post-graduate studies which she completed in 2002. During this time she performed as part of a student delegation in concerts in Moscow and Boston, Massachusetts. She also served as the concertmaster at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
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Albert Pratz (13 May 1914 - 28 March 1995) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967. His compositional output was modest and consists of only instrumental works. Some of his compositions, such as Melanie Waltz (1956) and A Tango (1957), were recorded by the CBC Symphony Orchestra; of which he was concertmaster from 1953-1961.
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Originally called The David Mannes Music School, it was founded in 1916 by David Mannes, concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Clara Damrosch. In 1938, the school was renamed the Mannes Music School. In 1953 the school began offering degrees and changed its name to the Mannes College of Music. In 1960 it merged with the Chatham Square Music School.
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She began her career as a concertmaster on guitar and later on lute and played incidental music in the pit of The Old Vic Theatre of London. She decided to leave England and settle in France. She asked the director of the Old Vic for recommendations to French directors. The latter sent him to Jean Vilar and Jean-Louis Barrault, who both hired her.
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The orchestra received financial support from the Massey family. At that time the orchestra was renamed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Welsman continued in his roles as conductor and artistic director and many of the conservatory's faculty members continued to play with the orchestra. Frank Blachford was appointed the new concertmaster and other professionals were hired at this time to raise the overall playing talent of the orchestra.
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Rosé stood up and gave a confident lead, bringing the orchestra back together and in tempo. Mahler, who was in the audience, is said to have exclaimed: “Now there IS a concertmaster!” Both Arnold and his brother Eduard, the cellist, were to marry sisters of Mahler (see below). Mahler moved from Hamburg to Vienna in 1897 to become director of the Vienna Hofoper (later Staatsoper).
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In 1903, William Preston, who was also involved with the Saskatoon Oratorio Society, began an amateur orchestra in Saskatoon. Fredrick William Musselwhite conducted the Saskatoon orchestra as early as 1905 with John Jackson as concertmaster. In 1913, John Jackson began a Saskatoon orchestra, followed by a temporary orchestra established in 1924 by Allan Clifton. In 1931 the current orchestra was established, under the direction of Arthur Collingwood.
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Afanasyev was born in Tobolsk in 1821. He obtained his musical education from his father, the violinist Yakov Ivanovich Afanasyev, an illegitimate son of Prince Ivan Dolgorukov. In 1838, two years after his debut as a violinist in Moscow, he was appointed concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. However, he resigned in 1841 to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near Saint Petersburg.
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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 with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, but has since focused on his career as a soloist with orchestras around the world.
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Kang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 6, 1975. Her parents (her father was an urban planner; her mother, a piano teacher) had immigrated to Canada from Korea. She was a child prodigy, beginning violin lessons at age four in a Suzuki class and soon starting lessons with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra concertmaster James Keene. She made her concerto debut in Montreal at age seven.
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It was there that he established a reputation as a pioneer in the performance of early choral music. While in New Haven he also served as conductor of the Yale University Orchestra from 1952 to 1960, and he was the concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1950 until 1962. The music school at Syracuse University; Howard Boatwright helped transform the school while he was dean.
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Previously as a violinist, Eivind Aadland was concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic (1981–1989) and Music Director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra during 1987–1997, with whom he directed concerts at concert halls and festivals throughout Europe, and made a number of recordings. Mr Aadland studied with Yehudi Menuhin and together they performed chamber concerts in Paris and London as well as in Switzerland.
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Richard Burgin (born June 30, 1947), grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father (also named Richard Burgin), was the Concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and his mother, Ruth Posselt, was a concert violinist- the first American born woman violinist to extensively tour Russia. Both his parents were child prodigies. His sister Diana is a professor, translator, and critic of Russian literature.
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After the division of the two roles in 1859, he remained director of the Conservatory, while Johann Herbeck became conductor of the concerts. He was professor until 1877, but continued on as director until his death in Vienna. In 1860 he became concertmaster of the Court Opera orchestra and took on various other positions in Vienna's music life. Hellmesberger founded the Hellmesberger Quartet in 1849.
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Erin Aldridge has been DSSO's Concertmaster since 2005. She also maintains an active performance schedule as a soloist and a chamber musician. Aldridge attended Indiana University, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning her Bachelor's degree in Violin Performance, Master's degree and Performer's Certificate in Chamber Music Performance, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance.Brissett, Jane (7 December 2009).
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In 2012 he wrote and performed his one-man show, 'Le Corbusier's Women', which premiered at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, and subsequently performed it at Chelsea Arts Club, London, and Bowery Poetry Club, New York (2013). It is currently in development as a musical with Peter Manning, Concertmaster at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and will be premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe (2014).
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In 1932 he became a member of the Montreal Orchestra. He joined the newly formed Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1934, serving as the orchestra's concertmaster (1934–1939) and then assistant conductor (1939–1948). Chamberland worked as a music producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1937-1952. Some of the programs he was responsible for producing were CBC Radio's The Little Symphonies and Récital.
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A recording was released in 2002. It is Michael Nyman's 44th album. Alexander Balanescu left the band during the recording of this album, and his concertmaster seat awarded to Gabrielle Lester, who previously recorded with the band on La Sept (1989). Nyman's own label, MN Music, reissued the opera with a cover featuring his own photograph of a mass of dolls wrapped in plastic, in 2011.
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As of 2019, the opera's conductor and artistic director is Ryan Brown, Diana Hossack is the executive director, and Nizam Kettaneh and Dorsey C. Dunn are the co-chairs of the company's board of directors. The concertmaster of Opera Lafayette's orchestra is Claire Jolivet. The company performs a split season with performances in Washington at the Kennedy Center, and in New York at Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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Jonathan Crow is the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster and a violinist in the New Orford String Quartet. In 2005 Jonathan Crow joined the Schulich School of Music at McGill University as Assistant Professor of Violin and was appointed Associate Professor of Violin in 2010. He is currently Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. Crow was born in Prince George, British Columbia.
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At that time, McNally was appointed Concertmaster of the Tulsa Philharmonic, and Ron Wheeler became Youth Symphony Conductor in the 1972-73 season. Wheeler had been the assistant conductor of the Youth Symphony since 1970. He was also a violinist in the Tulsa Philharmonic, and Production Manager of the Philharmonic. Ron Wheeler has been conductor and executive director of the Tulsa Youth Symphony Orchestra since 1972.
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Busch described him as a "first-rate violinist" and predicted a steep career for him. His contract obliged him to perform opera and symphony concerts, i.e. 10 performances plus rehearsals each, whereby he was released from rehearsals and from the operetta service. At the events in the opera, the concertmaster Reinhold Rohlfs-Zoll, who had been Wendling's representative for a time, was treated as an equal.
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David Nadien (March 12, 1926 – May 28, 2014) was an American virtuoso violinist and violin teacher. He was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic from 1966 to 1970. His playing style; characterized by fast vibrato, audible shifting noises, and superb bow control; has been compared to that of Jascha Heifetz, who is considered by many to be the greatest violinist of all time.Gary Lemco (18 November 2008).
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Al Sherman was born into a musical Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine, in what was then the Russian Empire. His father, violinist Samuel Sherman, fled a Cossack pogrom in 1903. Samuel settled in Prague which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He eventually found success working as a concertmaster, first violinist and intermittent court composer in the Royal Court of Emperor Franz Josef.
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Oramo was born in Helsinki, and started his career as a violinist and concertmaster of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1989, he enrolled in Jorma Panula's conducting class at the Sibelius Academy. In 1993, just one year after completing the course, he stood in for a sick conductor with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. This led to his appointment as Co-Principal Conductor.
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The Gramophone article, see sources. Humphreys, a Canadian violinist, studied in Vancouver and Toronto and in Europe trained with Frederick Grinke and George Enescu. He was leader of the Aeolian Quartet from 1952–1970. He was eminent both as a concertmaster and as a chamber player, notably in the St Cecilia Trio 1954-1965 and as first violin in the Purcell String Quartet 1979–1987.
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The orchestra has played the premieres of several operas. Richard Strauss' large- scale tone-poems Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra were both premiered by the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester. Many leading soloists have appeared with the orchestra, beginning with Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann in the 19th century. From 1915 to 1923, distinguished composer- violist Paul Hindemith served as concertmaster of the Opern- and Museumsorchester.
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Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur was born in Bamberg and received his musical education from the organ builder of the Würzburg court Johann Philipp Seuffert. He was also a pupil of Niccolò Jommelli, probably in Bologna. Around 1750 he was employed in the court of Rastatt, where he became concertmaster in 1759 and Kapellmeister in 1766. During this time he set German and Italian works for the stage.
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In 2001, Fritzsch first guest-conducted the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO). In April 2017, the TSO announced the appointment of Fritzsch as its first-ever principal guest conductor, effective January 2018, with an initial contract of three years. Fritzsch has recorded commercially with the TSO for Hyperion Records. In 1999, Fritzsch married Susan Collins, then the deputy concertmaster of the Sydney Opera House orchestra.
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Already during his studies he was engaged as a substitute with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 1943 he was appointed to the Reichs- Bruckner-Orchester in Linz and played under conductors like Karl Böhm, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Carl Schuricht, Herbert von Karajan, Oswald Kabasta and Joseph Keilberth. He also studied singing at the Linz Conservatory. From 1948 to 1951 he was concertmaster of the Small Radio Orchestra Weimar.
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He joined the Australia Ensemble in 1982, and was also at that time leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. In 1985, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to further his musical studies. During that year, he won a Bronze medal at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium. He was concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1987 to 1994, and again from 2002 to 2016.
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Several composers wrote works for Quiesser, including Ferdinand David (Mendelssohn's concertmaster) who wrote in 1837 the Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra, Ernst Sachse and Friedrich August Belcke, whose solo works remain popular in Germany. Queisser helped reestablish the reputation of the trombone in Germany. He championed and popularized Christian Friedrich Sattler's tenorbass trombone during the 1840s, leading to its widespread use in orchestras throughout Germany and Austria.
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Sergey Teslya is a Russian violinist, born in Novosibirsk. A former member of Vladimir Spivakov's chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi, Teslya settled in Spain in 1990. He has held the concertmaster chair at the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla (1994–2002) -for which he created a chamber orchestra- and the Orquesta Nacional de España (2002– ), and has performed as a soloist in several Spanish concert halls.
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His choice was John Pennington, who had been first violin of the London String Quartet from 1927 to 1934, and had then had a career in the US as concertmaster, successively, of the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Paramount Pictures orchestras.Jenkins (2005), pp. 99–100Lucas, p. 317 Beecham rehearsing in 1948 On 11 September 1946, the Royal Philharmonic assembled for its first rehearsal.
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Concertmaster: Jaap Schröder, Continuo: Christopher Hogwood. Decca Record, London 1988. Alfred Einstein suggested in his edition of the Köchel catalogue that the symphony was composed in 1765 in London, based on the incipit and Mozart's first surviving symphony, K. 16. He gave the work the Köchel number 16a and stated that the early time of composition is obviously recognisable even from the few surviving bars.
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In 1914, she began teaching in Berlin at the Ochs-Eichelberg Conservatory. In 1916, she moved to Munich, then from 1923 to 1925, she worked again in Linz as professor of music school and concertmaster of the local orchestra. In 1925, she returned to Munich. She performed as a soloist with a repertoire ranging from J. S. Bach and J. von Bieber to Joseph Joachim.
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Born in Vienna, he was the son of Georg Hellmesberger Sr. and the brother of Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. He studied violin with his father and composition with Ludwig Rotter (1810–1895). In 1847 made a concert tour through Germany and England. In 1850, he became court concertmaster and director of vaudeville and ballet music in Hanover. Shortly before his premature death in Hanover, he became Kapellmeister.
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Dr. Russell Ames Cook was the first out-of-state conductor. An outgoing man, he befriended the "leading families" of the orchestra, and they helped him get support. During his tenure, 1938–1951, there was an increase in donations, supporters, and volunteers which were all essential to its success. In 1952, the concertmaster and associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Richard Burgin, became the PSO's conductor.
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His father was a theatre mechanic and his uncle was a concertmaster. All of his siblings became involved in the theatre in some creative capacity. At the age of five, his family moved to Vienna , where he later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Before and during that time, he also studied the construction of theatrical machinery with his father, and set painting with ; among others.
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Wiese was a soloist at the celebration of Edvard Grieg's 25th anniversary as a pianist and composer in Kristiania with two concerts on November 14 and 21, 1891. Other performers at the concert were Ellen Gulbranson, Thorvald Lammers, the choir of the Oslo Music Society, the Choir Society, the Christiania Theatre Orchestra, the Tivoli Orchestra, and Johan Hennum as concertmaster. Edvard Grieg conducted the concerts himself.
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With the support of the local nobility, Mozart was offered a post as court organist and concertmaster. The annual salary was 450 florins, but he was reluctant to accept. By that time, relations between Grimm and Mozart had cooled, and Mozart moved out. After leaving Paris in September 1778 for Strasbourg, he lingered in Mannheim and Munich, still hoping to obtain an appointment outside Salzburg.
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Braunstein developed a solo and chamber music career. He performed as a soloist with leading orchestras around the world and played in many chamber music groups such as the Huberman Quartet. In 2000 Braunstein was appointed as the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Before receiving this position Braunstein played only as a soloist and as a chamber music violinist, and never played in an orchestra.
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Seah (center) with fans after a concert, January 2006. Other than being a soloist or a concertmaster, Seah is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the "Violin Loan Scheme", a scheme by the Singapore National Arts Council. Seah has a great passion in music education. She has shared her experience generously with young talents by giving masterclasses in conservatories or music institutions regularly.
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The repertoire is classical music ranging from baroque to modern. For the 2010–2011 season, the conductor is Dr. Arthur P. Barnes, a professor emeritus at Stanford University who has conducted the orchestra since 1964 when he was a doctoral student at Stanford. The concertmaster is Kristina Anderson. Dr. Barnes, Ms. Anderson, and the principal cello are the only paid regular players; the rest are volunteers.
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In 1963, at the age of 23, he became the concertmaster of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. He established a standing quartet with the brothers Gerhard and Hermann Voss, as well as cellist Peter Buck. The quartet was based in Stuttgart, and remained together until Melcher's unexpected death on the eve of a planned farewell tour. Wilhelm Melcher played a violin by Domenico Montagnana (1731).
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The Italian- American Corigliano was born in New York City to a musical family. His father, John Paul Corigliano Sr., was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years, and his mother, Rose Buzen, is an accomplished educator and pianist. Corigliano attended P.S. 241 and Midwood High School in Brooklyn. He studied composition at Columbia University (BA 1959) and at the Manhattan School of Music.
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The Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, K. Anh. 56/315f by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an unfinished work that was written in Mannheim in 1778. It was written for an Academie des Amateurs that was to take place in Mannheim. Mozart himself was to play the piano part and Ignaz Fränzl, the concertmaster of the Mannheim orchestra, was to play the solo violin part.
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Koycheva graduated from the National Music Academy of Bulgaria in Sofia. She competed in music competitions including the Setoslav Obretenov, Music and Earth, Pancho Vladigerov, Dobrin Petkov, and Musicians of the New Мillennium competition. In 2004, she was concertmaster of the Philharmonie Junge Donau. Koycheva has performed with the Varna Philharmonic and Shumen Philharmonic orchestras, and has recorded for Bulgarian National Radio and Bulgarian National Television.
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In the early 1900's, it was under the direction of Carlo Curti, who spent his career between the United States and Mexico. Later he was replaced by Joseph Knecht, who was formerly assistant concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera House. Consisting of fifty musicians, it was maintained by Boldt at an annual expense of $100,000. The orchestra performed regular Sunday night concerts in the grand ballroom.
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Barth was born in Saxony and from 1863 to 1867 studied with the renowned violinist Joseph Joachim. Barth used his left hand for bowing and his right hand for fingering and so played the violin "in reverse." Nonetheless, he was successful as a violinist and served as concertmaster of orchestras in Munster, Krefeld and Marburg and headed a string quartet. He was also a successful music teacher.
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In addition, the orchestra takes one or two concerts each year "on the road" to Victoria country locations that have included Daylesford, Drouin, Wendouree (Ballarat) and Yea. The orchestra celebrated its 80th Anniversary in 2013–2014 with two performances to capacity audiences of Mahler's epic Eighth Symphony - the "Symphony of a Thousand" - at the Melbourne Town Hall. In what was believed to be "a first" for an Australian Community Orchestra, the performances involved over 580 performers including an augmented Zelman Symphony of some 125 players led by Guest Concertmaster, Wilma Smith, Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), and featuring many guest principal players from the MSO and other top orchestras and music institutions. David Macfarlane played the magnificent organ, a 370 voice choir was formed from nine community choirs, and an 80 voice children's choir involved students from Southern Voices and St Catherine’s School, Toorak.
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All the known facts of his life and activity are from the Musikalischen Lexikon by Johann Gottfried Walther (Johann Sebastian Bach's cousin), a dictionary which first appeared in 1732. J.J. Walther was born in Witterda bei Erfurt. Between 1670 and 1674 he is said to have remained a violinist in the orchestra of Cosimo III of the Medicis in Florence. From 1674 he was concertmaster at the court of Dresden.
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Edit Makedonska (Cyrillic: Едит Македòнска) is a Bulgarian-Serbian violinist and principal concertmaster of the National Theatre in Belgrade.Biography at the website of the National Theatre in Belgrade Edit Makedonska was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 12 March 1961. She comes from a musical family, and began to study violin with her mother Diana Rapondzhijeva-Stojanović, and finished the Faculty of Music in Belgrade where she studied with prof. Fern Rašković.
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He was married to the violinist (concertmaster of the Finnish RSO), with whom he had two children, Jan and Pia. Pia is a professional cellist; Jan is a businessman. After Segerstam's divorce from Hannele, he married the Helsinki Philharmonic harpist Minnaleena Jankko in 2002, with whom he had three children: Violaelina (born 1997), Selimoskar (born 1998) and Iirisilona (born 1999). In 2009, it was announced that their marriage would end.
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Victoria Tarquini, called La Bombace, the wife of the concertmaster Jean-Baptiste Farinel became the mistress of Ferdinando. (She may have been a daughter of Robert Cambert and had an affair with Handel.Harris, E.T. (2001) Handel as Orpheus: voice and desire in the chamber cantatas, p. 180.) By 1710 his health had begun to fail, and the annual operatic productions at Pratolino under his aegis (see below) ceased.
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Eugen Huber was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary. He adopted the Hungarian version of his name, Jenő Hubay, in his twenties, while living in the French- speaking world. Hubay was trained in violin and music by his father, (Károly Huber, later ') from Varjas (), concertmaster of the Hungarian National Opera House and a teacher at the Budapest College of Music. His mother was of Italian descent.
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The Qingdao Symphony Orchestra (; commonly abbreviated QSO) is an orchestra re-established in April 2005. The orchestra's artistic directors and principal conductors are Zhang Guoyong (张国勇) and Zhu Hui (朱晖), and its concertmaster and Deputy Executive Director is Liu Yuxia (刘玉霞). The Executive Director is Lian Xinguo (连新国). The principal performance venue of QSO is at the People's Hall of Qingdao.
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He became deputy leader of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra in 1914, and was promoted to concertmaster in 1916. He played second violin in the Rebner String Quartet from 1914. Hindemith was conscripted into the Imperial German Army in September 1917 and sent to join his regiment in Alsace in January 1918. There he was assigned to play bass drum in the regiment band, and also formed a string quartet.
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He has also attended masterclasses taught by Igor Ozim in Switzerland. Thouin is the former concertmaster of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra with whom he toured Asia, Europe and Israel. For his work with that ensemble he received the Cécile-Mesnard- Pomerleau Prize. In 1998 he won the Jules C. Reiner Violin Award at the Tanglewood Music Festival and in 2002 he received the Young Canadian Musicians’ Award.
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From 2005 to 2008 he was concertmaster of Concerto Köln. In 1997 he made his conducting début with the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle, since 1999 he has been artistic director of this ensemble. His repertoire ranges from early Baroque to the sonatas and violin concertos of Louis Spohr. The recording of the Sonatas KV 55-60 by Mozart and sonatas by Johann Georg Pisendel been awarded several international record prizes.
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In April 2015 he was named the new music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, effective in 2016. On 16 March 2018, at the conclusion of a joint performance by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and New Century Chamber Orchestra at which he served as concertmaster, Hope was announced as the latter ensemble's new music and artistic director. Hope plays the 1737Hope calls it "1742". Guarneri "ex-Lipinski" violin.
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The Xenakis Ensemble (Ensemble Xenakis in French) is a Dutch ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. Based in Middelburg, it is known as one of the few ensembles specializing in the works of the composer Iannis Xenakis. It is frequently conducted by Diego Masson, who conducted the performances of many of Xenakis's works, as well as other guest conductors including Huub Kerstens. Its concertmaster is Mifune Tsuji.
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Another leadership model that several conductorless groups utilize is that of a dual Artistic Director/Concertmaster role. The Australian Chamber Orchestra and New Century Chamber Orchestra embrace this model and the artistic direction and leadership are generally organized by the lead violin. Note that some orchestras, such as Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston and the London Philharmonic Orchestra have conductors but are cooperatively run by the musicians.
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Justin Kauflin and Thomas Fonnesbæk in Denmark 2016 Justin Kauflin was born in Silver Spring, Maryland before moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia with his family. As a child he learned classical music on violin and piano. Starting at the age of six, he was performing in concerts, nursing homes, and weddings, eventually becoming concertmaster for several orchestras. When Kauflin was eleven, he lost his eyesight due to proliferative exudative retinopathy.
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Justin Kauflin and Thomas Fonnesbæk in Denmark 2016 Justin Kauflin was born in Silver Spring, Maryland before moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia with his family. As a child he learned classical music on violin and piano. Starting at the age of six, he was performing in concerts, nursing homes, and weddings, eventually becoming concertmaster for several orchestras. When Kauflin was eleven, he lost his eyesight due to proliferative exudative retinopathy.
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Jancsin started his career as the member of the Hungarian State Opera's orchestra in 1933. He became its first concertmaster of it in 1936, and held the post until 1971. Before World War II, he gave solo concerts Hungary and in Sweden, Austria, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. After the war, he stayed in Hungary, where he founded his chamber group in 1947, the Jancsin quartet, which and led it until 1968.
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Howard was born in Los Angeles. He is from a musical family; his grandmother was the Pittsburgh Symphony's concertmaster and violinist during the 1930s and '40s. Howard began studying music as a child, taking classical piano lessons at the age of four. He went on to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, California and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California with Reginald Stewart and Leon Fleischer.
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Andreas Randel (6 October 1806 – 27 October 1864) was a Swedish composer and violinist. The overture to his The People from Vårmland was recorded by Kungl, Hovkapellet, Stig Westerburg. Randel got his last name after the Ramdala parish and he was originally called Pettersson. Randel worked as a concertmaster at the Opera, regiment musician and was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music when he passed away.
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The Italian Army Music Band () is an Italian military band based in Rome which represents the Italian Army. It is currently the senior most military band in the Italian Armed Forces. It is subordinate to the Capital Military Command. The band is composed of 102 non-commissioned officers and officers, under a senior training officer and master conductor/concertmaster which directs the band and leads it during parades.
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From the 1950s through the 1990s, Richards spent most of his career working in Toronto recording studios as a contractor and/or concertmaster for radio and television programs and various orchestras. For the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation he worked for a number of radio programs,Ross Brethour. "The West, a nest, and you, dear": a bio- discography of Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen. Nomadic Records; 1988. p. 85.
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Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) and then in the Conservatory of Berlin (1884-1886) with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka. From 1889 to 1892 Aulin served as concertmaster of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He went on to conduct the principal symphony orchestras of Stockholm and Gothenburg. In 1887 he formed the Aulin Quartet, the first full-time professional quartet in Sweden.
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A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2) (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 2002): pp. 265–70, . For the final eight bars of the Trio of the minuet, Haydn instructs the concertmaster ("Salomon Solo" in the score) to play an octave above the rest of the first violins. Indeed, this minuet is extraordinary in Haydn's output: all of its repeats are written out because the scoring changes with each repeat.
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In the beginning, Du Puy made his living by tutoring in music, and gave a concert at the Royal Danish Theatre on March 29, 1800, playing among other things a concerto for violin that he himself had composed. After this, he was quickly made concertmaster at the royal chapel, and in 1802, opera singer. Du Puy was a very successful opera singer, e.g. starring as Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera.
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Since 2010 Bezuglov is living in US, where he has been studying with professor Dmitri Berlinsky at MSU College of Music. Since 2012, he was professor Berlinsky's teaching assistant. Bezuglov was the principal violinist with the International Chamber Soloists strings orchestra, and the Concertmaster of the Ad Libitum chamber orchestra. He is also the member of the ION Piano Trio, Michigan State String Quartet, and OctoOpus+ String Nonet.
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Retrieved 18 July 2020."Cancer claims Hollywood concertmaster at 50". The Strad, 25 May 2018."Katia Popov" California Philharmonic. Retrieved 18 July 2020. Katia Popov was a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and was a founder and first violinist of the California String Quartet, formed in 2002 with other members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra."California String Quartet" Los Angeles Musica Salon. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
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In June 1839 he received a double appointment in Dresden, as concertmaster of the Royal Oratory and kapellmeister at the court chapel.A letter to his wife of 2 July 1839 (Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek) . With his Dresden duties, he ceased touring as a virtuoso, but concentrated on chamber music, with a special devotion to the string quartets of Beethoven. Here he also gave a joint recital with Liszt, performing Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.
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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 Valery Gergiev to the position of Music Director of the newly formed Mariinsky Stradivary Orchestra. He currently also is Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Cenek J. Vrba (born 11 April 1947 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a violinist and concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra between 1975 and 2011. He is one of Canada's foremost violinists, being described as a "True inheritor of the Czech string tradition…violinist of a rare distinction". (Tokyo – Japan). He began music training at the age of eight and six years later, he joined the state music conservatory.
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Nikki Chooi (born January 31, 1989) is a Canadian classical violinist. He is the winner of the 2013 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. and Laureate of the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Nikki was a member of the cross-over ensemble, Time for Three, during the 2015/2016 season and subsequently served as Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York for the 2016/2017 season.
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Bristow was born into a musical family in Brooklyn, New York. His father, William, a well-respected conductor, pianist, and clarinetist, gave his son lessons in piano, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and violin. George joined the first violin section of the New York Philharmonic Society Orchestra in 1843 at the age of seventeen, and remained there until 1879. The New York Philharmonic's records indicate that he was concertmaster between 1850 and 1853.
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Matthaei was born in Dresden in 1781. Little is known of his early life; it is thought he was largely self-taught as a violinist. In 1803 he arrived in Leipzig, and was appointed as a soloist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, of which the concertmaster was Bartolomeo Campagnoli. Through patrons and friends he had the opportunity to study in Paris, where from 1804 he was a student of Rodolphe Kreutzer.
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He is something of a primadonna whose violin technique is seen by himself to be deeply personal but by others to be simply sloppy. He sees Chiaki as a rival for attention and tries hard to compete with his "Princely" image of him. He likes Nodame for her free-spirited ways. He is the concertmaster of the S Orchestra conducted by Chiaki, and a violinist in the R☆S Orchestra.
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Willi Boskovsky was born in Vienna, and joined the Vienna Academy of music at the age of nine. He was the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1936 to 1979. He was also, from 1955, the conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert, which is mostly devoted to the music of Johann Strauss II and his contemporaries."Willi Boskovsky, 81, Waltz Violinist, Dies", New York Times, April 24, 1991.
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In 1937 he became concertmaster of the Boyd Neel Orchestra. His first performance with them was Salzburg Festival in 1937, giving the premiere of Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge By Benjamin Britten. He began teaching as Professor at the Royal Academy in 1939. Included among his pupils, were many who went on to become leading British artists (including Sydney Humphreys (of the Aeolian Quartet), Clarence Myerscough and Rosemary Rapaport).
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In 1833 his family moved to Pest, which in 1873 was united with Buda and Óbuda to form Budapest. There from 1836 (age 5) he studied violin with the Polish violinist Stanisław Serwaczyński, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest, said to be the best violinist in Pest. Although Joachim's parents were "not particularly well off", they had been well advised to choose not just an "ordinary" violin teacher.Moser, 1901, p.
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Anassian was hired by Yanni as a Concertmaster for the 1994 tour, as well as serving as a violin soloist. He appears on the live concert videos, Yanni Live at Royal Albert Hall and Tribute. According to Armen, Yanni hired him as a conductor "on faith" - as he had never watched him conduct an orchestra. "That's how Yanni does many things," Anassian said in a 1998 interview with the Toledo Blade.
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From 1921 he was working with the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra, initially as the Concertmaster ("leader") and the between 1923 and 1927 as a solo viola player. During the 1920s Gerster also joined up with the labour movement and organised Workers' Choral Groups. In addition, from 1927 till 1947 he taught at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, specialising in violin, viola, chamber music, music theory and composition.
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The concert life of the city of Gera is based on the tradition of the orchestra of the House of Reuss, which can be traced back to the year 1696. Concertmaster Herbert Voigt of the Philharmonic Orchestra founded the „Kammerorchester der Bühnen der Stadt Gera“ in the 1960/61 orchestra season. In 1987 it was awarded the title "Philharmonic Orchestra". In 2000 it was merged with the traditional Landeskapelle Altenburg.
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He was a collector and amateur violinist who lived in Birmingham, England. The Muntz, among the last of the instruments made by Stradivari, is currently owned by the Nippon Music Foundation. Since 2007, the Muntz Stradivarius has been leased to Yuki Manuela Janke, concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden. It was confiscated at Frankfurt Airport in 2012 when Janke returned from a performance in Tokyo, but was later returned.
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When she was 15, Seah was appointed as Associate Concertmaster of the Bishop Symphony Orchestra at the International Music Camp in Adelaide, Australia. That same year she represented Singapore in the Southeast Asian Violin Competition, and won a scholarship to study at the Hannover Hochschule for Music in Germany. Renowned violin teachers she had worked with included David Mankowitz of Toronto, Prof. Friedrich von Hausegger of Hannover, Prof.
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In 1963, Fürst founded the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and developed his conducting career from that point. On the formation of the Ulster Orchestra in 1966, Fürst became its concertmaster, and later its assistant conductor in 1971. He held positions as Chief Conductor and Music Director with orchestras in Malmö (1974–77), Aalborg (1980–83), Dublin, Winterthur (1990–94) and was Chief Guest Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Born in Parma, Bolzoni studied at the Parma Conservatory. After graduating in 1859, he was violinist and part-time conductor with Teatro Comunale di Reggio Emilia and Comunale di Cremona, eventually taking a position in Savona where he also taught violin. After six years he became its concertmaster and conductor. This was followed in 1874 by three years in Perugia as orchestral conductor and theatre director at the Istituto Morlacchi.
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He is the concertmaster of the American Ballet Theatre orchestra (as of October 2014), and is an ensemble member of Orchestra of St. Luke's. Bowman's performances have been recorded for radio broadcast in Canada with the CBC, in the USA, the UK, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Korea. His discography includes recent solo and chamber-music releases on the RCA Red Seal, ATMA Classique, and Innova labels.
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Nicky Sanders (born August 16, 1979) is a Grammy Award-winning, American fiddle player specializing in Bluegrass music. He is best known for his work with the band Steep Canyon Rangers along with banjo player and comedian Steve Martin. Raised in San Francisco, he began studying classical violin at age of five. In his youth, he acted as concertmaster of the Young People's Symphony Orchestra in Berkeley, California.
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He became the concertmaster (leader of the first-violin section) of the new Orquesta Sinfónica de la Habana in 1922. In the mid-1920s he was appointed concertmaster of the Orquesta Filarmónica of Havana (he would assume the position of conductor in 1932) and founded the Havana String Quartet. During this period, Roldán, one of the leaders of the Afrocubanismo movement, wrote the first symphonic pieces to incorporate Afro-Cuban percussion instruments. Roldán's best-known composition is the 1928 ballet La Rebambaramba, described by a critic of the era as "a multicolored musicorama ... depicting an Afro- Cuban fiesta in a gorgeous display of Caribbean melorhythms, with the participation of a multifarious fauna of native percussion effects, including a polydental glissando on the jawbone of an ass." Roldán's compositions included Overture on Cuban Themes (1925), three little poems: (Oriente, Pregón, Fiesta negra: 1926), and two ballets: La Rebambaramba (a ballet colonial in two parts: 1928) and El milagro de Anaquille (1929).
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In 1878 Venth was appointed concertmaster of the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra and of the Flemish Opera in Brussels; in 1879 he assumed the same post with the Offenbach Comic Opera of Paris. He made his solo debut in 1878 with the Utrecht Symphony, followed by a concert tour of the Netherlands in 1879 (together with Alfred Patzig and Luise Wandersleb- Patzig, 16 concerts in 12 cities) and of the United States in 1880. In 1880, he moved to the United States whereupon he concertized as a violin soloist for four years before accepting a position in the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He lived in New York until 1908. During that time, he founded the Venth College of Music in Brooklyn (1889), founded and conducted the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (1890), founded and led the Venth String Quartet (1891), and served as conductor or concertmaster with the Euterpe Orchestral Society of New York and the St. Paul Symphony.
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David Nadien was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 12, 1926, the son of Armenian- American George and Bertha Nadien. His father was a local boxer who went by the last name "Vanderbilt." He started learning violin with his father, then entered the Mannes School of Music; he also studied at the Juilliard School. His teachers included Adolfo Betti, Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Adolf Busch and Ivan Galamian. When he was 18 he was drafted into the US Army, and played with the Army Service Forces Orchestra upon the recommendation of Philadelphia Orchestra principal bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, who recognized his talents.Vivien Schweitzer (8 June 2014). David Nadien, Philharmonic Concertmaster, Is Dead at 88, The New York Times. Accessed June 2014. He made his first concert appearance with the New York Philharmonic at the age of 14,[s.n.] (29 May 2014). Former New York Philharmonic concertmaster David Nadien has died aged 88 . The Strad. Accessed June 2014.
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Campbell (1989), p. 231 In 1951 he moved to Las Vegas, where he lived for the remainder of his life, and founded and conducted a symphony orchestra there (unrelated to the current Las Vegas Philharmonic). He disliked musical recordings, and refused to allow his performances of major cello works such as the Bach Suites to be recorded. The few professional recordings in existence are limited to musical vignettes and his own short compositions.Campbell (1989), p. 233 One assemblage of amateur recordings, including most of the first Bach Suite, Kol Nidrei, and the Prize song from Die Meistersinger, taped surreptitiously by Bolognini's longtime accompanist Donald Kemp during concerts and rehearsals, was released as a CD in 1994.100 Years of the Incomparable Cellist Ennio Bolognini. ASIN: B000EQ296I. Bolognini's brother Remo was a violinist with the Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, assistant concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony, and concertmaster of the NBC Symphony under Toscanini.
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Max Kästl (or in English Max Kaestl) was born into a musical family and became a music child prodigy. He studied violin first at the conservatory in Munich, later in Leipzig. His first position was the music director at the Kurkapelle in Bad Kissingen and later at the orchestra in the Royal Theatre in Munich. Around 1885 Max Kästl became concertmaster at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and later at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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In 1927 Heins left Ottawa for Toronto, where he lived for the rest of his life. He taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music from 1927-1948, where he notably conducted the school's symphony orchestra from 1930-1934. He also was the violist in the Conservatory String Quartet from 1929-1934. He served as concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) from 1927–1931, and was then the TSO's principal violist from 1931-1938.
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Five months after the presentation of the "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn" poem and its setting to Duke Wilhelm Ernst, he promoted Bach to concertmaster (), and commissioned him to compose, once a month, a new piece of church music. According to Maul, Bach being promoted to compose church music was likely, at least in part, due to his setting of Mylius's ode. Possibly the aria was performed again in 1715 in Pforta.
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Local sport associations include the soccer club SC Rattersdorf-Liebing, affiliated since its founding in 1967 with the Burgenländischer Fußballverband and the Austrian Sports Federation (ASVÖ)SC Rattersdorf-Liebing website, retrieved 6 July 2009. and the Burschenschaft Rattersdorf-Liebing tennis club, affiliated with the Austrian Sport and Physical Culture Union (ASKÖ). The "Musikverein Grenzland", also founded in 1967, is a group of 40 musicians led by Concertmaster Helmut Draskovits.Musikverein Grenzland website, retrieved 6 July 2009.
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It was at the Capitol that Rapée made his most famous classical arrangement of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 13. While at the Capitol, he pioneered orchestral radio broadcasts over station WEAF as part of the Roxy's Gang programs. He also engaged Eugene Ormandy as the Capitol's concertmaster and assistant conductor. The Capitol orchestra made a number of commercial recordings under Rapée's direction in 1923-24 for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company.
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In the fall of 1887, Toscanini was to conduct Giuseppe Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata and requested Polo to play the lengthy violin solo at the end of Act III.Giuseppe Verdi website Retrieved 18 February 2012. In 1893, with the financial support of Count Stefano Sanvitale, Polo went to Berlin to study with Joseph Joachim. He returned to Italy in 1895 and was appointed Toscanini's concertmaster at Teatro Regio in Turin.
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He also working as an occasional guest conductor for the CBCSO radio broadcasts, including conducting all of their performances on the CBC Radio series Let's Make Music and The Music Box. He later played with the CBC Festival Orchestra in the Canadian premiere of Berio's Concertino 1951 in 1973. From 1955-1960 Pratz served as the concertmaster of the Hart House Orchestra with whom he also was heard frequently as a soloist.
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Steck began studying the modern violin with Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn in Karlsruhe and the baroque violin with Reinhard Goebel in Cologne. After his studies he served as concertmaster for Musica Antiqua Köln and the French ensemble Les Musicians du Louvre under Marc Minkowski. With these ensembles he gave concerts worldwide and has participated in more than thirty CD recordings. In 1996 he co-founded the Schuppanzigh Quartet, where he is first violin.
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Tchaikovsky Research: Sérénade mélancoliqueTchaikovsky Research: Violin Concerto In 1885, he became the concertmaster and second conductor of the Warsaw Opera. He occasionally conducted operas there, and he also conducted the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1886, he was appointed violin and viola professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, and was the institution's Director from 1910 to 1918, succeeding Emil Młynarski. Among his pupils in Warsaw can be mentioned Mieczysław Karłowicz,Polish Music: Karłowicz Grzegorz Fitelberg,Culture.
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He graduated from the Juilliard School in 1996 with a Doctorate of Musical Arts. In August 1994, Riseley was appointed concertmaster of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until August 2010. He has performed the North American premieres of the violin concerto The Bulls of Bashan by Gavin Bryars, and the Violin Concerto (2002) by Allan Gilliland. He performed regularly as soloist with the ESO, in a variety of major concerti.
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The Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra during the inaugural concert, Warsaw 1996 The Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra, 1998 The Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra, 2010 The Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra – Polish string orchestra founded in 1996The Orchestra's Homepage by the outstanding virtuoso violinist Jan Stanienda who is the orchestra's concertmaster, as well as its conductor. Wratislavia plays music ranging from baroque to contemporary, and uses the classic framework of a Mozartian orchestra, increasing the ensemble as the repertoire requires.
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Adrian Adlam (born 24 December 1963) is a British violinist, conductor and music educator. He was educated at Westminster Abbey, Winchester College, Conservatoire Royale de Musique of Brussels and the Hochschule fur Musik, Hanover. Adlam has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. He has appeared as concertmaster with several European orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra,London Symphony Orchestra, Complete Discography. Retrieved 20 December 2008.
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Since that time she has played numerous engagements, ranging from musical theatre to her well-received performance of Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto with the Philharmonic. Her work with the Upton Trio, as both composer and violinist, has been featured on NPR's Theme and Variations. She appears frequently with the Sterling Chamber Players and also serves as the assistant concertmaster of the Greenville Symphony. She lives in Columbia, SC with her daughters Catherine, Jessica, and Cristina.
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During his teaching career he has served on faculties of Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatory, Flint Institute of Music, Blue Lake fine arts camp, and Michigan State University College of Music. Bezuglov is also a tenured member of six professional symphony orchestras in the United States: Associate Concertmaster of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra; Assistant Principal Second of the Midland Symphony Orchestra, First Violin of Kalamazoo Symphony, West Michigan Symphony, Flint Symphony, and Traverse Symphony orchestras.
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In 1880 he joined the chapel where he from 1900 - 1917 he was concertmaster. He was for many years Vice-President of the Copenhagen Chamber Music Society and for many years the artistic director of the People's Concerts. From 1911 to its end in 1920, he was head of the CFE Horneman conservatory, on whose board he sat beginning in 1906. From 1922 until his death he was a teacher at the Royal Conservatoire.
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In 1979 he played for Boston Symphony concertmaster Joseph Silverstein who recommended him to the Curtis Institute of Music where he was admitted without a live audition. He studied with Ivan Galamian, graduated in 1984, and continued graduate studies at the Juilliard School of Music, studying with the legendary Dorothy DeLay. He became known for making audition tapes for students. “People knew I was always tinkering with recordings – it came naturally,” he said.
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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 Rostal in Cologne and Nathan Milstein in London. From 1982 to 1988 she was concertmaster of the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne. Bieler has been a member of the Melos Quartet. In 2001 she helped create the Xyrion Trio with Maria Kliegel and Nina Tichman and in 2003 the Heine Quartet.
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Cooper was born in New York City. Her father, Rex Cooper, is an American pianist and former professor at the University of the Pacific and her mother, Mutsuko Tatman, is a violinist of Japanese descent and concertmaster of the American Symphony. Cooper is the granddaughter of the Japanese composer Tomojiro Ikenouchi and the great granddaughter of haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi. She began her musical studies on the piano before transitioning to the cello.
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Duo46 resides in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. There Matt serves is director of guitar studies at Cambrian College, is a member of the Sudbury Guitar Trio and artistic director the Sudbury Guitar Society; Beth is concertmaster of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Sudbury Symphony Conservatory. Both Matt and Beth are formerly faculty of Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Paradise Valley Community College and Matt at Arizona State University.
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Wollgandt, Edgar on Deutsche Biographie From 1900 to 1903 he was engaged at the Hannoversche Hofkapelle and in 1901 became principal violinist and deputy concertmaster there. In the same year he was appointed Royal chamber musician. In 1901 and in 1902 he was a member of the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. In 1903 he became First concert master of the Gewandhausorchester and primarius of the Gewandhaus Quartet, a position he held until 1941.
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He declined calls to Aachen, Bremen and Stuttgart (successor to Karl Wendling). In 1925/26 he became the first concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden as successor to Max Strub (of the Semperoper) under Fritz Busch.Ortrun Landmann: Namenverzeichnisse der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden: eigene Benennungen, Namen der Administratoren, der musikalischen Leiter und der ehemaligen Mitglieder von 1548 bis 2013, in systematisch-chronologischer Folge. Published in 2013, since then updated and corrected annually (status: August 2017), (PDF).
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Violinist Stefan Jackiw performs exclusively on a violin by Vincenzo dated 1704. "Le Brun" violin by Vincenzo made in 1705 was formerly owned by Charles Lebrun and was formerly in the collection of the Royal Academy of Music. Yoonshin Song, Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, plays a 1707 violin by Vincenzo Rugeri on loan to her from a sponsor. A violin by Vincenzo Rugeri was lost when the SS Flying Enterprise sunk in 1952.
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Antonio Vandini (1691 – 1778), a close friend of Giuseppe Tartini, was a cellist and composer. He was one of the foremost virtuoso performers of his era and spent the vast majority of his career as the first violoncellist of the ″Veneranda Arca″ at the Basilica del Santo in Padua, where Tartini was first violinist and concertmaster. Upon the death of Tartini, he returned to Bologna, the city of his birth, where he died in 1778.
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Cushman has appeared with a variety of orchestras, including as a guest soloist with the New York Riverside Orchestra, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, the Queensborough Orchestra, the Great Neck Philharmonic, and as a repeat guest soloist with the Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra. He also toured London and Scotland as concertmaster and soloist of the Children's Orchestra Society's Young Symphonic Ensemble. In April 2006, Cushman won the American Fine Arts Festival young performers competition.
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Sitt is responsible for the best-known orchestration of Edvard Grieg's Norwegian Dances, Op.35, an 1881 work for piano duet. His most prominent students include the composers Franco Alfano, Pablo Sorozábal and Frederick Delius, and the conductor Václav Talich. Hans Sitt's elder brother Anton Sitt the Younger (1847-1929) was also a noted professional violinist, and the concertmaster of the Helsinki Orchestral Society, who premiered most of the major orchestral works of Jean Sibelius.
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Five years later his father died, so that he had to find his own livelihood. He received a state exemption at the newly founded Hochschule für Musik Köln. Already in 1928 he won the renowned Mendelssohn Prize at the age of 22. In 1930 he passed his final examination with distinction In the same year he went to Berlin, where he was concertmaster of Edwin Fischer's chamber orchestra and continued his studies with Carl Flesch.
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Afterwards he became solo cellist and concertmaster at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. He also taught at the conservatory there. In the 1920s he declined offers for the Staatskapelle Dresden. In 1924 he changed to the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig as principal cellist. From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet. In 1926 he replaced Julius Klengel in the Leipzig Trio, where he played with Edgar Wollgandt (violin) and Otto Weinreich (piano).
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Often invited as guest concertmaster, Johannes Pramsohler led orchestras such as The King's Consort, Le Concert d'Astrée, Concerto Köln, Arte dei Suonatori, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. He is founding member and artistic director of the London-based International Baroque Players. 2014 saw his soloist debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He regularly performs as a guest of the Berlin Philharmonic with their Early Music ensemble Concerto Melante.
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As Concertmaster, he regularly leads orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Singapore Symphony, under conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Tugan Sokhiev, Günther Herbig and Lorin Maazel. He currently holds the position of Artistic Director of the Laurentians Classical Festival of Canada and Artistic Director at Acacia Classics Productions. Alexandre Da Costa plays the "Deveault" Stradivarius of 1701 loaned by his friends Guy and Maryse Deveault.
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As a boy, he studied violin with Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), composer, violinist, concertmaster and leader of the Mannheim court orchestra. He joined the violin section of the orchestra as a scholar (i.e. aspirant) at age twelve (1744), becoming a full member two years later. In the year 1748 he is listed in the annual court and state calendar (Churpfälzischer Hof- und Staatskalender) as a violinist living together with his father in Moritz Lane.
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Wilma Smith became Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in 2003. The MSO's Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has stated that, of all the performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending he has conducted, Wilma Smith's was "unquestionably the most beautiful". He describes her as "an exceptional musician with whom [he] felt an immediate rapport". In June 2013 she announced her retirement from the MSO from the end of the 2014 season.
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Among his recordings is the first performance of Elliott Carter's Violin Concerto, which won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Among composers who have dedicated their works to Bøhn are Elliott Carter, Johan Kvandal, Niels Viggo Bentzon and Noël Lee. Ole Bøhn was concertmaster of the Norwegian Opera from 1978 to 2012 and is professor at Sydney Conservatorium of Music since 2009. He is awarded King Harald's medal of merit in gold.
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In 1732, he entered the service of Frederick the Great, then crown prince of Prussia, with whom he remained the rest of his life. He was a member of the crown prince's orchestra, and later became concertmaster to the king. He played about 50,000 concertos over a period of forty years. At Benda's request, Frederick allowed his parents and siblings to move to Potsdam when, as Protestants, they suffered religious persecution in Bohemia.
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Like many of the classical musicians of pre-World War II era, Levin played at restaurants to support himself. He rose through the unofficial ranks as a teenager, overcoming strong antisemitic barriers. He took private lessons with concertmaster Gustav Fredrik Lange (1861–1939) and notably composer Fartein Valen (1887–1952), being exposed to a wide range of musical traditions and innovations. Levin was the last living silent movie veteran when he died in 1996.
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Daniel Garlitsky is descendant of a lineage of famous Russian violinists and pedagogues. His grandfather, Mikhail Garlitsky, was the founder of the "Step by step" violin method. His father, Boris, winner of the Paganini competition, served as concertmaster of the Moscow Virtuosi orchestra and later of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Daniel Garlitsky began his musical studies (violin and piano) at the "Specialised Gnessin School of Music" at the age of 6.
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In 1883 he received his first position as concertmaster at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, but had to give it up after a few months for health reasons. He worked first as a private violin teacher and from 1888 as a lecturer at the Berlin Musikhochschule. In 1900 he was appointed full professor for violin there. Among his students were Pálma von Pászthory, Josef Wolfsthal, Robert Imandt, Richard Czerwonky, Hans Bassermann and Julius Ruthström.
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BandArt, born in 2005 within Spanish festival of Lucena Cordoba. It is an independent orchestra formed by musicians of whom many are members of some of the most prestigious orchestras in Europe. The Serbian Gordan Nikolić, soloist and concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, is the art director and soul of BandArt. The name “BandArt” was chosen because it captures perfectly the orchestra’s talent and aspirations.
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He has over 2,800 motion pictures and thousands television shows to his credit. Granat has toured and recorded with numerous artists, including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Barbra Streisand, Yanni, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, and Ricky Martin. He was concertmaster for many recording studios that made soundtracks for films, including Legally Blonde (2001), Dreamcatcher (2003), The Bourne Identity (2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) and The Simpsons Movie (2007).
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With Barbini as principal, the Gramercy was commissioned by Pierre Boulez for a number of pre-concert performances at Avery Fisher Hall. While in New York, Barbini also served as concertmaster for the Joffrey Ballet and soloist with the Festival Orchestra at the Norwalk Performing Arts Festival. Chamber music has been a focus of Barbini's career. He has performed with the Philharmonia Quartet, Balihry Piano Trio, San Francisco Contemporary Players and Music Now.
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Between 1783 and 1788 he wrote seven ballets for La Scala, and in the same period he was also concertmaster at the Pio Istituto de' Professori di Musica. In 1797, under the French occupation, he wrote a ballet of republican inspiration. In 1802 he was arbiter in a controversy between the theatre management and the orchestra. In 1803 he left his position at La Scala, where he was replaced by Alessandro Rolla.
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From 1797 he worked as a violinist at the Vincenzkirche in Breslau, now in Poland, and later as an organist at St. Klara. In 1798 he became a violinist and concertmaster in Breslau's theatre orchestra. On April 1, 1805 he was its Director of Music. In 1812 he became the Director of Music at the university, also teaching at the Catholic seminary and was also director of the Royal Institute of Sacred Music.
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Grgić has collaborated with musicians, such as JACK Quartet, Martin Chalifour (Concertmaster, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), Clive Greensmith (Tokyo String Quartet), and the Assad Brothers guitar duo. He is a founding and active member of Duo Deloro with Adam Del Monte and FretX Duo with Daniel Lippel, guitarist of ICE Ensemble. In September 2018 he toured with Grammy Award-winning singer KD Lang as the opening act on her anniversary Ingenue Tour.
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During the summer months, Hardy attended The Elisabeth Morrow School of Music, Manhattan School of Music Summer Camp, Kinhaven Music School and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. In 2012, Hardy also performed in special masterclass by Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet. Hardy then attended Talent Unlimited High School where he played both violin and viola in orchestra and jazz band. He switched between concertmaster and principal violist in the orchestra.
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He had reserved the European rights to the score for Sergei Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes production, choreographed by the 24-year-old Balanchine, opened at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on 12 June 1928. Stravinsky conducted the performance. The concertmaster was Marcel Darrieux. In accordance with Stravinsky's wishes, the style of dancing was essentially classical, and Stravinsky thought of "Apollon musagète" as a ballet blanc, that is, costumed in traditional minimal white.
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Zorian then studied violin with Georges Enescu in Paris and with Szymon Goldberg in Amsterdam. In 1938, she was leader (concertmaster) of an orchestra assembled by Rudolph Dolmetsch. She performed five times as soloist at The Proms, in London, 194047, at the invitation of Sir Henry Wood. In one of those performances, in 1943, she gave the first performance in England of Saudade for violin and orchestra by South African composer Arnold van Wyk (191683).
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Moving to Berlin, in 1692 he gained a position as a violinist in the court orchestra of the Electorate of Brandenburg. He quickly gained promotion through the ranks, emerging as the court concertmaster ("Maitre de Concert"), taking care of ballet and dance. He composed arias and dance music for the marriage, in 1706, of the crown prince. Although his responsibilities included the regular composition of dance music, none of his compositions from the period survive.
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In 1708, following a dispute, he was relieved of all his duties at the Berlin court. In 1709 he was taken on as concertmaster ("Maitre de Concert") at the rival court of Dresden: the appointment came with a generous annual salary of 1,200 Thalers. Applying the French style he made the Dresden orchestra one of the best in Europe. Under his directorship musicians such as Veracini and Pisendel joined the court orchestra.
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The orchestra's most ambitious effort to date was a 1994 performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, involving 85 instrumentalists and more than 200 singers. The MSO has a full-time director, Thomas Hinds, as well as two artists in residence who serve as concertmaster and principal cellist, respectively. The two two-year fellowships begin in alternating years. In 2013 the fellowships were held by a married couple, violinist Mr. Robin Scott (2012-2013) and cellist Ms. Ahrim Kim (2013-2014).
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Fried was married to Gladys Wallace, who was herself a highly regarded professional violinist and teacher. Gladys Wallace Fried played violin in the Dallas Symphony, and also served as concertmaster during her husband's final six seasons as music director (1918-1924), and upon Walter's death she took over his position as professor of violin at Southern Methodist University. She was one of Dallas's most esteemed music teachers, and many of her students went on to professional careers in music.
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He became good friends with Johann Georg Pisendel, concertmaster of the Royal Orchestra, who greatly influenced his style. Between 1724 and 1727 Quantz completed his education by doing a "Grand Tour" of Europe as a flutist. He studied counterpoint with Francesco Gasparini in Rome, met Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples, befriended the flutist Michel Blavet in Paris, and in London was encouraged by Handel to remain there. In 1728 Quantz accompanied August II on a state visit to Berlin.
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After moving to Sydney from Newcastle in 1966, Peter Deriashnyj contacted Hryhory Bazhul in July 1967 to pursue studies with the bandura, specifically the Kharkiv style of bandura. The Hnat Khotkevych bandurist ensemble under the direction of P. Deriashnyj - Melbourne, 1971. Deriashnyj joined Bazhul's small group of 5 bandurists in November 1967 and encouraged the existing members to include vocal study into the weekly practice routine. H. Bazhul supported this proposal and elevated him to concertmaster.
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The founding string quartet consisted of members of the Teatro Real, principal violist Tomás Lestán and the concertmaster Rafael Pérez as second violin. The cellist was Ramón Rodríguez Castellano, who was later replaced by the Franco- Polish cellist Víctor Mirecki. Other performers included pianists Mariano Vázquez Gómez (1863) Adolfo de Quesada (1868), the violist and composer Miguel Carreras (1869), clarinetist Antonio Romero (1875), cellist Agustín Rubio (1881), violinist Enrique Arbós (1882), and several collaborations with faculty from the Conservatory.
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Skya was born on August 12, 1987, in St. Petersburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Her grandmother, Emma Shchetinina, was a famous harpist and teacher, while her grandfather, Mark Fliderman, was a concertmaster of The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Skya began attending dance classes at a young age, and when she turned nine, she enrolled at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. At the age of twelve she moved to Ufa for further training in ballet.
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1782), Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer (a family friend, who provided keyboard tuition), Franz Rovantini (a relative, who instructed him in playing the violin and viola), and court concertmaster Franz Anton Ries for the violin. His tuition began in his fifth year. The regime was harsh and intensive, often reducing him to tears. With the involvement of the insomniac Pfeiffer, there were irregular late-night sessions, with the young Beethoven being dragged from his bed to the keyboard.
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Blinder was a noted violin teacher as well. His most prominent student was one of the most critically acclaimed violinists of the twentieth century, Isaac Stern. At one point, his students included 17 members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and the whole first violin section of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra. Other students of Blinder have had distinguished careers including David Abel, Austin Reller, and Glenn Dicterow, who was the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.
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Sachs was born in Lišov, District of Bohemia, to a Jewish family. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory, graduating in 1905, when he joined the Czech Philharmonic. From 1907-10 he was concertmaster of a theatre orchestra in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, and from 1910-11 a music teacher in Novi Sad. (Croatian) In 1911 he began to conduct opera in Zagreb, Croatia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; later part of Yugoslavia).
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The other members were Hummer (2nd violin), Sigismund Bachrich (viola) and Lohse (cello). thumb From 1893 to 1901 Rosé taught at the Vienna conservatory; he rejoined the faculty in 1908 and stayed until 1924. In 1888 Rosé made successful tours through Romania and Germany, and in 1889 was appointed concertmaster at the Bayreuth Festivals. The story is told that during a performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre the orchestra was losing its way and on the verge of breaking down.
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In 1920, Indig resigned in the hope of advancement; he was replaced by Imre Pogany, a native of Budapest who had studied under Hubay and Zoltán Kodály. After resigning, Indig became a soloist with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra; and 1931 he became concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. When the Nazis came to power, Indig fled to Paris where he led another quartet for a while. He then relocated to Amsterdam until 1951, and thereafter returned to Paris.
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William Bell was the third musician selected by Toscanini, after his concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff and principal oboe Philip Ghignatti. In 1943 he became principal tubist for the New York Philharmonic. Leopold Stokowski invited Bell to perform and narrate George Kleinsinger's 'Tubby the Tuba', and to perform and sing a special arrangement of 'When Yuba Plays The Rhumba on the Tuba'. In 1955 Bell performed the American premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra".
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In 1971 while still a student, he won the First Prize at the 40th Music Competition of Japan. In 1977, he joined the Berlin Philharmonic, and in 1983, he was appointed by Herbert von Karajan to be first concertmaster of the orchestra. In 2009, Yasunaga retired from the Berlin Philharmonic. Bundesverdienstkreuz für Toru Yasunaga That same year, he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) for his contributions to music and culture.
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The Advent Chamber Orchestra started in 2003 when Roxana Pavel and Elias Goldstein worked together in chamber music ensembles. The ensemble functioned primarily as a chamber music collaborative until 2005 performed their first concert as the Advent Chamber Orchestra. The ensemble is generally led by concertmaster and music director Roxana Pavel Goldstein, but artistic decisions are achieved democratically. A Far Cry, formed in early 2007, is a Boston based chamber orchestra made up of 18 string players.
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Stieber attended the . As a pupil he was enthusiastic about puppetry, and at the same time he received piano lessons from his father who was interested in music. His musical interest culminated in 1904 in the recording of a study of music at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He studied violin with the former concertmaster of the Gewandhausorchester Arno Hilf and conducting with the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Arthur Nikisch, Stephan Krehl (music theory) and Heinrich Zöllner (musical composition).
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In 1986, Duroy was appointed soloist of the Opéra national de Lyon under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner and Kent Nagano. From 1989 to 1991, he was concertmaster of the Orchestre national de Lyon, Emmanuel Krivine conducting. Since 1992, Duroy had a career as a concert performer that took him to all continents. In 2005, he made an important tour that took him to the biggest venues in Japan and opened the doors to Asia.
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Eddie Wittstein (February 22, 1885-December 22, 1975) was an American bandleader popular in New Haven, Connecticut and Yale University in the first half of the 20th century. Wittstein grew up in New Haven, and was performing professionally in a band by the time he was 14. He was awarded a music scholarship to Yale in 1904, and was concertmaster for the Yale Symphony Orchestra. He started an orchestra that played for silent films after graduation.
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10 Milton is known for his work as chief conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and Willoughby Symphony in Australia, and the Orchestra of the State Theater of Saarland (Saarländischen Staatstheater) in Germany. He is Permanent Guest Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and is principal conductor of the Croatian Chamber Orchestra. Prior to his career as a conductor, Milton was concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and violinist for the Macquarie Trio, performing with pianist Kathryn Selby.
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In addition to his solo concert work, he was also first violin in the Quartet of San Remo and concertmaster at the Symphonic Orchestra of San Remo, as well at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. As teacher, he held the violin class at Music Conservatory "N.Piccinni" in Bari from October 1967 till 1973, when Nino Rota was the director. Among his pupils we can remember Uto Ughi that studied with him privately in Naples for 7 years.
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Cadman's musical education, unlike that of most of his American contemporaries, was completely American. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he began piano lessons at 13. Eventually, he went to nearby Pittsburgh where he studied harmony, theory, and orchestration with Luigi von Kunits and Emil Paur, then concertmaster and conductor, respectively, of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This was the sum of his formal training, although he has been said to have been a pupil of Anna Priscilla Risher as well.
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Soon, Kim asked for violin lessons, as had his friend Jennifer Koh and a number of his other friends around the same time. His parents enrolled him in a local Suzuki class, where he thrived under the tutelage of Suzuki instructor William Fuhrburg. In 1985, his family moved to Plattsburgh, New York. He attended public schools while studying the violin privately, traveling to Montreal weekly to work with the concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony, Richard Roberts.
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Clementi was born on December 19, 1991, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. A graduate of Ridgewood High School, he was a violinist; he played with the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra and participated in the Bergen Youth Orchestra as concertmaster. A few days before leaving home to attend college at Rutgers, Clementi told his parents that he was gay. While his father supported him, Clementi said in an instant message to a friend that his mother had "basically completely rejected" him.
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From the year of 1995 to the end of 2009 he was the concertmaster of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. During this time he has committed himself to the performance of Jewish music and to the cultivation of historical performance practices. Recently he had performances as a guest with the BR in Munich, WDR Cologne, NDR Hannover, Madrid, Oslo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan, Israel and Brazil. In addition, Mr. Rubinstein has also been the leader of various ensembles.
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During the 1970s, Hagen gave private lessons and coached chamber ensembles, primarily for students in their teens. She has served as concertmaster for the Westchester Symphony Orchestra, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and the Orange County Chamber Orchestra. During the early 1980s, she performed in a number of Canadian venues with orchestras and with a piano quartet. In 1985, she began teaching violin at Vassar College; she also taught at the University of Western Ontario from 1985 to 1989.
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As a young man, Rossi acquired a reputation as a talented violinist. He was then hired (in 1587) as a court musician in Mantua, where records of his activities as a violinist survive. Rossi served at the court of Mantua from 1587 to 1628 as concertmaster where he entertained the ducal family and their highly esteemed guests. The composers Rossi, Monteverdi, Gastoldi, Wert and Viadana provided fashionable music for banquets, wedding feasts, theatre productions and chapel services amongst others.
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He was a central figure in the capital city's artistic community, where he started holding regular chamber music evenings, and he was the concertmaster at the Christiania Theater until 1899, when it closed. Bøhn premiered Edvard Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8 in 1867 with the composer at the piano. His students included Christian Sinding, Sigurd Lie, Michael Flagstad, Harald Heide, William Farre, and Johan Halvorsen. Bøhn died in Kristiania (now Oslo).
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CCOHK was founded in 1999 by oboist Leanne Nicholls, who is also the artistic director. It is known for having a very large repertoire spanning many different styles.Magazine article in the BC Magazine French conductor Jean Thorel served as chief conductor from 2008 to 2016. Previous and current guest conductors include Anthony Inglis, Philip Walsh, Nicholas Routley, Peter Leech, Richard Honner, Richard Harvey, Lorenzo Colitto (guest concertmaster), Vahan Mardirossian, Colin Touchin, Nicholas Cleobury and Jonathan Berman.
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The Kneisel quartet was founded soon after Franz Kneisel first arrived in Boston, as concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Kneisel's training under Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. may have given an important stimulus to the decision to form the quartet. The quartet remained settled at Boston, performing at venues such as Chickering Hall,Boston Globe, 1 December 1889 until 1903. In January 1894 It gave the premiere in Boston and second performance in New York of Dvořák's "American" String Quartet.
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Berger resides in Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife Chrysanthi and their two daughters, Isabella Grace Berger and Nicole Elizabeth Berger, a young actress who has starred in Clover, Runt and The Place of No Words. His daughter Nicole has appeared in several movies including Two for One. Chrysanthi Berger (née Casseres) attended Laguardia High School of Music and Art and was the concertmaster there. She earned a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music.
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Vasko Vassilev biography In 1989 he won a second prize (the first wasn't awarded that year) at the Paganini competition. In 1994 at the age of 23 he became the youngest ever Concertmaster of the Royal Opera House in London. In 2005 he made his conducting debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He gives Masterclasses for violinists at the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music, and at the Conservatory of Music in Spain.
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He is scheduled to perform Berg Concerto in Bucharest, Timișoara and Sibiu in April 2018. Currently, Mr. Anassian is an avid researcher/ performer of 20th century Concertos and a recitalist, performing with his long time collaborator Mark Robson. He is also a violinist with the Los Angeles Opera where he has also served as guest Concertmaster under the direction of James Conlon. He has collaborated with Plácido Domingo, Esa Pekka Salonen, Luciano Pavarotti, Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, etc.
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He performed the "Concierto de Aranjuez" with this orchestra conducted by British conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald on a special "Last Night of the Proms" concert in Cracow, Poland. He has also performed Vivaldi Concerti and Boccherini Quintets with several string quartets. He has collaborated with musicians from Poland, Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. Lukasz also maintains a duo partnership with a virtuoso flutist Anastasia Petanova and the Baltimore Symphony Assistant Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich.
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In a famous incident about this time, Giardini, who was serving as assistant concertmaster (i.e. leader of the orchestra) during an opera, played a solo passage for violin which the composer Niccolò Jommelli had written. He decided to show off his skills and improvised several bravura variations which Jommelli had not written. Although the audience applauded loudly, Jommelli, who happened to be there, was not pleased and suddenly stood up and slapped the young man in the face.
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She finished her undergraduate degree within the department of music in the conservatory and became a talented violinist. After completing her studies in music at Tashkent Conservatory, Nikotina furthered her musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, working towards a doctorate in music studies. Working under the tutelage of violinist Igor Bezrodny, Nikotina completed her doctorate in musical studies in 1986. Following the completion of her education, she became a concertmaster in the Tashkent State Symphony Orchestra.
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Horlick was born in Konotop, Ukraine, according to his sworn naturalization and draft registrations,U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 while other sources list Kyiv or Cherinkow, "a little hamlet just outside of Moscow, Russia". His brother's lack of financial success as concertmaster of the Imperial Opera Company of Tiflis caused their father to oppose another son's being a professional musician. Undeterred, Horlick built a violin when was six years old and played during his father's absences.
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David Kim (born 24 May 1963) is a violinist born in Carbondale, Illinois and was the only American to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986, where he got sixth prize.Winners & Prizes Since 1999, he has been the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has played with the All-Star Orchestra and performed with orchestras in Dallas, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Korea, and Moscow. Kim resides in a Philadelphia suburb with his wife and two daughters.
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Today the art of the bandura is once again becoming popular in the Kuban particularly amongst the performers of the Kuban Cossack Choir, the Kubantsi ensemble and a number of other semi- professional groups. A museum dedicated to the collection of the kobzar and bandura legacy of the Kuban and Crimea is located in Yalta. The bandura is currently taught in the music college in Krasnodar. Notable exponents include Yuri Bulavin - the concertmaster of the Kuban Cossack choir.
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La Sept is a 1989 promotional album of music for La Sept written by Michael Nyman and performed by the Michael Nyman Band. It is Nyman's fourteenth release. Gabrielle Lester makes her debut with the band on this album. After a 13-year hiatus (at least from recording) with the band, she would replace the departing Alexander Balanescu as concertmaster for The Michael Nyman Band during the recording of Facing Goya, and, as of 2008, remains in that position.
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Edward Hardy, "#tbt When I performed with Kygo back in October...", Instagram, February 2, 2017. In 2014, Hardy performed as a guest solo violinist at the Charleston Museum under the button of Maestro Marlon Daniel and performed in the first violin section of The Black Stars of Broadway Concert led by Norm Lewis and Chapman Roberts. Months later Hardy took the stage as concertmaster of the Trilogy Opera Company at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theater.
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Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra in Luigi Dallapiccola's Intolleranza at Carnegie Hall in 2018 The American Symphony Orchestra is a New York-based American orchestra founded in 1962 by Leopold Stokowski whose mission is to demystify orchestral music and make it accessible and affordable for all audiences. Leon Botstein is the orchestra's music director and principal conductor. They perform regularly at Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space in New York City. Its concertmaster is Erica Kiesewetter.
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He performed at the World's Fair in Chicago and became Concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of the Music-Hall in Boston.Dr. Jaroslav E. S. Vojan, K.O. "lived in Boston and is now in California", Czechoslovak Art and Literature in America, flps.newberry.org, 1933, accessed 21 May 2018 He played second violin in the Kneisel Quartet from 1899-1902, and about 1910 led his own musical trio.(Czech) National album page memoir Biography of the violinist Karel Ondříček, kramerius.nkp.
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He has served as concertmaster for several regional orchestras including the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, Torrance Symphony, Opera a la Carte, Opera Nova, the Culver City Chamber Orchestra, the Disney-Grammy Collegiate Orchestra, the Eastman Opera and Studio Orchestras, and well as assistant concertmaster for the Orquesta de Baja California. He has served as principal second violin for the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Ventura Music Festival, Asian-American Philharmonic, Saint Matthews Chamber Orchestra, and El Paso Opera, and performed as a substitute first violin for West Bay Opera. He performs regularly with the symphonies and philharmonic orchestras of West L.A., Southeast L.A., Marina Del Rey, Brentwood, Burbank, Calabasas, Antelope Valley, San Bernardino, Redlands, and Riverside, and has performed with the Mozart Chamber Orchestra, Angeles Baroque Orchestra, the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, the dAKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, and others. In 2005, Bradley toured with the Orquesta de Baja California and world famous guitarist Angel Romero to New York City's Lincoln Center, and has visited nearly all of the contiguous United States in multiple tours with other leading orchestras.
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From an early age, Igor Malinovsky performed with renowned orchestras as a soloist such as the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, in Gassteig/Munich, in the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus, in the Kongresshalle Lucherne and participated as soloist on tours of Asia, South America and Europe. Igor Malinovsky was the first concertmaster of the Bavarian State Orchestra (music director Zubin Mehta) 2002 - 2005, the Orchestra of the Komischen Oper Berlin (music director Kirill Petrenko) 2005-2010 and the Orchestra Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia (music director Lorin Maazel). As concertmaster, he has been invited to lead the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Arturo Toscanini, the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Frankfurt, the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn, and many more. Since 2011, Igor Malinovsky is Professor of Violin at the University of Music „Carl Maria von Weber“, Dresden in Germany and guest Professor at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona.
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The larger group retained the Dallas Symphony name, and, beginning late in 1911, Venth became the music director, with Fried serving as concertmaster. This group was active until 1914, when economic depression and World War I forced the orchestra to disband. In 1915, Fried was appointed as the head of the violin department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, a position he would hold until his death. When the Dallas Symphony resumed operations in 1918, Fried was again music director.
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New York Times article, "Burgin on Podium," by John Briggs, January 6, 1957New York Times article, "Notes here and Afield," November 9, 1939, page 140New York Times review, "Boston Symphony Plays New Work," by Howard Taubman, January 10, 1941 In 1944, Posselt premiered Aaron Copland's Violin Sonata with the composer at the piano. She married violinist, concertmaster, and conductor Richard Burgin on July 3, 1940. Their son, Richard W. Burgin, is the author of numerous short-story collections and novels.
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Nicolas Capron was a student of Pierre Gaviniès and one of the most famous French violinists of his time. His career began in 1756 at the Opéra-Comique and in the private orchestra of the general farmer, Alexandre Le Riche de La Pouplinière. From 1765, he became concertmaster at the Concert Spirituel. Capron attended the most important musical fairs of the citySalon of the Baron de Bagge, salon of the abbé Morellet where he met renowned musicians, philosophers and writers.
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Nemtanu started studying the violin with her father, Vladimir Nemtanu, solo concertmaster of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. She then studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, unanimously obtaining a gold medal in violin and in chamber music. She entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1997, where she studied with Gérard Poulet and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She won the first prize of the Maurice Ravel competition at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1998 and the third prize at the International Stradivarius Competition in 2001.
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Léon Orthel (4 October 1905, Roosendaal - 6 September 1985, The Hague) was a Dutch composer, pianist and teacher. In 1921 he became a student of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He studied violin with André Spoor,re André/Andreas Petrus Spoor (1867 - 1929): Concertmaster of the Amsterdam Orchestra according to Boston Symphony Program notes for 1917 - 1918 about one of his other pupils, Sylvain Noack. Dates from MusicSack based on Altmann/Frank (1936) Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon : fur Musiker und Freunde der Musik.
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Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work. It holds an important place in the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos in history.Mendelssohn, F. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, Dover Miniature Scores (1999) A typical performance lasts just under half an hour. Mendelssohn originally proposed the idea of the violin concerto to Ferdinand David, a close friend and then concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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Varujan Kojian (March 12, 1935; Beirut, LebanonMarch 4, 1993; Santa Barbara, California) was an Armenian-American conductor from Beirut, Lebanon. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and by 1956 joined Los Angeles Philharmonic where he became an assistant concertmaster. He began his job as a conductor in Vienna in mid '60s. From 1973 to 1980 he was the guest conductor at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and during the same years was also working as an associate conductor for the Seattle Symphony.
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In March 1825, while serving as concertmaster of the Paris Opéra, Baillot and Luigi Cherubini evaluated Felix Mendelssohn's application for admission to the Paris Conservatory by playing his Quartet for Piano and Strings in B minor. Mendelssohn was only 16 years old. An anecdote mentioned that, overcome with emotion, Baillot approached the young composer after the performance and, without uttering a word, simply embraced him. Baillot made a final tour in Switzerland in 1833, and died in Paris in 1842.
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The program included works by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert, as well as two solos performed by Isidore Troostwyk, a Dutch-born violinist who had recently arrived as a Professor of Music at Yale. Troostwyk served as concertmaster of the new orchestra. In its early years, the NHSO was closely tied to Yale University, drawing its conductors from the School of Music faculty and serving on occasion as a laboratory for Yale composers and performers. The University also offered financial and organizational support.
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Polak was the son of Alexander Polak, violin builder and concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Janet Kiek, who founded the first Home Economics Budget Bureau. He studied law and economics in Amsterdam and, before the Second World War, was a member of the Board of Directors of a large chain of stores in the Netherlands. In 1936 he married the poet Louise Moor. As a Jew, Polak spent the war years in hiding and preparing a PhD thesis in philosophy.
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Rudolf Hickel was born into a Catholic family in Nuremberg at the height of the Second World War. He shares his name with his father, who was the concertmaster ("in English-language terms, leader of the orchestra") with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Hickel grew up in Bad Wildbad, a little town in south-west Germany which after 1945 became part of the French occupation zone and then, in May 1949, of the German Federal Republic (West Germany). He attended middle school locally.
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In 1943 Pratz relocated to New York City to join the United States Army, serving until the conclusion of World War II. From 1946-1953 he was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini. During that time he also played for a variety of New York studio and pit orchestras; including being the concertmaster/solo violinist for the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. He was also associate conductor for the musical One Touch of Venus.
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He also appeared frequently as a soloist on the radio series Stardust and in many CBC recitals during those years. In 1961 he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto where he founded the Canadian String Quartet (active 1961-1963) and was teacher of violinist Campbell Trowsdale. He left there in 1964 to join the faculty of Brandon University where he taught through 1966. From 1966-1969 he was concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra where he occasionally filled in as conductor.
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Johnson, Interludes, 89 About 1823, several of the Society's members commissioned Beethoven to compose an oratorio, apparently with an English text, which he never completed.Johnson, Interludes, 252n Chorus rehearsal, 1903 From its earliest years, Handel and Haydn participated in music festivals and civic celebrations to commemorate significant historical events. For the visit of President James Monroe in 1817, the H+H orchestra performed a march composed for the occasion by their concertmaster, followed by almost two dozen arias and choruses.
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He was the assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1951 to 1955. In 1955 he became the first American to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition, an international competition in Belgium. Subsequently, he became a jury member of the competition and toured extensively and internationally, including in Australia, Africa, Europe, South America, United States, Soviet Union and East Asia. In the United States he performed with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony and others.
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Audrey Call was born in Alton, Indiana, in 1905, and began playing the violin at an early age. She studied under Chicago composer and concertmaster P. Marinus Paulson at Sherwood Music School. She won a number of important competitions, one of which led to her performing the Paganini Violin Concerto in Chicago. She then was awarded a scholarship to study in France at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique et de Declamation in Paris, now known as the Conservatoire de Paris.
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He has recorded many CDs, especially of Hungarian music, for companies such as BMG Conifer, Naxos Records, Hungaroton and Radioton, as well as numerous recordings for radio and television worldwide. With the Budapest Sinfonietta, drawn from the Symphony, he has conducted and recorded a considerable repertoire of 20th Century music. András Ligeti was with the Budapest State Opera between 1977 and 1985, firstly as concertmaster then as Chief Conductor, where he performed much of the central repertoire. He also conducted at Saarbrücken.
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" Upon Brodsky's later departure for the United States, Arno Hilf replaced him both as professor in the Leipzig Conservatoire and in the string quartet ensemble.: "[Brodsky] was succeeded in the quartet at Leipzig and at the conservatory by Arno Hilf." Adolph Brodsky, Hans Becker, Julius Klengel and Ottokar Nováček In October 1891, Walter Damrosch invited Brodsky to become concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra.: "[Brodsky] was engaged by Mr. Walter Damrosch as concert-master for the New York orchestra.
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In 1965 Ernest Llewellyn, former concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra arrived in Canberra to take up the position of Director of the newly formed Canberra School of Music. He also was invited to the role of conductor of the Canberra Symphony. Llewellyn’s tremendous reputation made it possible for him to recruit top professional players to teach at the School and to join the orchestra. In no time the CSO was flourishing with sold-out performances at the newly opened Canberra Theatre.
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At age 10 he publicly performed Bach's Chaconne in D minor. The next year he made his debut in Copenhagen playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. He lived in England for some time from 1929, where he appeared in concerts with artists such as Maria Jeritza, Feodor Chaliapin, Jan Kiepura and Paul Robeson. He returned to Vienna to become the first Concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 1933 to 1937, and from 1937 to 1951 led the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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"Six pianos" by Steve Reich among others with Post & Mulder (Borealis Festival 2010), Makrokosmos by George Crumb at the Moscow Conservatory in 2011. She was concertmaster of the State Capella Choir in Baku from 2011 to 2012. In 2013 she performed with the State Chamber Orchestra of Azerbaidschan In 2014 she performed one of the parts in a live radio broadcast on MDR Kultur of Simeon ten Holts Canto Ostinato for four pianos. She has won prizes at international competitions (i.e.
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Pontarelli was classically trained on the violin from age four. In the years that followed, Pontarelli played in local orchestras and youth violin competitions and from 2003 to 2005, he was concertmaster of the San Diego Youth Symphonic Orchestra. While continuing his classical education, Pontarelli experimented with other genres and improvisation, performing with jazz, country, blues, world, and rock musicians. He appeared on national television in 2004, winning the Grand Champion title of PAX TV's competition show America's Most Talented Kid.
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Noah Bendix-Balgley was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1984. He began playing the violin at age four. He attended the Crowden School in Berkeley, California and was concertmaster in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He then went on to study with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where he worked with pedagogue Ana Chumachenco. He plays a 1732 Bergonzi violin that had previously been owned by Nigel Kennedy.
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Koelman studied the violin with Jan Bor and Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam. From the age of 18, he studied with Jascha Heifetz on a full scholarship at the University of Southern California School of Music, now known as the USC Thornton School of Music, in Los Angeles. From 1996 until 1999 he was first concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. 2000-2005 he was Professor for violin and chamber music at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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In 2011, the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony recorded Los Angeles-based composer Sarah Stanton’s Violin Concerto, Ora E Sempre, featuring Mark Kashper, its concertmaster, as violin soloist. It was released on the Amabile Strings label. In 2017, the symphony recorded Philadelphia-based composer Andrea Clearfield’s oratorio Women of Valor, featuring soloists Hila Plitmann, soprano, and Rinat Shaham, mezzo, with actress Tovah Feldshuh as narrator. The symphony previously presented the World Premiere of Women of Valor in 2000 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
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From 1999-2001 Darragh was leader of the Cyprus State Orchestra and throughout 2004 was Concertmaster of the KZN Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa. During that year he also became Director of Baroque 2000 South Africa's acclaimed period instrument orchestra. He also regularly leads English Touring Opera, and was featured as leader of the orchestra in BBC 2's acclaimed TV series 'The Genius of Beethoven'. The Fidelio Trio recently gave the European premiere of Michael Nyman's The Photography of Chance.
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Veronika Hagen (born 5 May 1963, in Salzburg) is an Austrian violist. Born in Salzburg, Hagen began to learn music at the age of six with her father, who was at that time concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. She then continued her studies at the Musik Hochschule of Salzburg with Professor Helmut Zehetmair and at the Musik Hochschule of Hanover with Professor Hatto Beyerle. During her studies she won several prizes, including the Budapest International Viola Competition in 1984.
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He has given classes and led workshops in most European countries, as well as in Korea, New Zealand and the USA. In 2004, he was Regents’ Lecturer at UC Berkeley. In 1999, he began to teach at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden. Between 2003 and 2005 Holloway served as musical director of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and in 2005 and 2006 concertmaster and music director of the period instrument ensemble and orchestra known as New Trinity Baroque.
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Roman Kofman was born on 15 June 1936 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the State Conservatory (now The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music) with a degree in violin (1961), followed by a degree in conducting in 1971. Since 1963 he worked as a concertmaster of the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra. As a conductor he performed with more than 70 orchestras from Europe, America, Asia and Africa (including WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Munich Philharmonic and others).
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He won a scholarship to the Welsh College of Music, Cardiff, where he studied violin under Garfield Phillips, concertmaster of the BBC Welsh Orchestra. He studied 197175 at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Clarence Myerscough for violin and Winifred Copperwheat for viola. Jarvis founded the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first concert in 1989 - he ended his term as its artistic director at the end of 2009. Jarvis is also a professor and lecturer of music at Charles Darwin University.
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He studied voice and piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He served as the concertmaster of the University Circle Chamber Orchestra for four years. During his undergraduate studies, the university awarded him the Kennedy Prize for Creative Achievement in Music, and the Charles E. Clemens Prize for Talent and Accomplishment in Music. He is also a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda music honorary society at C.I.M. and C.W.R.U. Mahlay was a magna cum laude and phi beta kappa graduate.
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Born in Veliko Tarnovo, Wenkoff initially studied law and worked for several years as a lawyer. He also studied singing, first in Tarnovo and Ruse, later in Dresden with Johannes Kemter. He worked as legal advisor, and was also second concertmaster in an amateur operetta theatre in his hometown. In 1954, he made his stage debut in the operetta Keto and Kote by Viktor Dolidze. Until 1963, he was full-time operetta tenor at the theatre, performing around 1000 times.
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In 1937 he left the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. In 1937 he appeared at an event of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden with the cellist Leo Rostal of the local orchestra and the concertmaster Wladislaw Waghalter and again in 1938 for the Jüdische Winterhilfe. In 1938 he taught the Spanish conservatory student Ursula Reig free of charge, which brought him a lawsuit from the local musicians for violation of the professional ban. The proceedings initially resulted in fines, but were eventually dropped.
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Between 2006 and 2012, he held the position of concertmaster at the Toulon Opera and then became a member of the Diotima Quartet.Diotima Quartet homepage During this same period his international career accelerated and he performed in about a hundred concerts per year throughout Europe, in the United States, in Asia, South America and North Africa. His collaborations with current composers are numerous. He premieres pieces and collaborates with Gérard Pesson Alberto Posadas, Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Georg Friedrich Haas.
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In 2011, the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony recorded Los Angeles-based composer Sarah Stanton’s Violin Concerto, Ora E Sempre, featuring Mark Kashper, its concertmaster, as violin soloist. It was released on the Amabile Strings label. In 2017, the symphony recorded Philadelphia-based composer Andrea Clearfield’s oratorio Women of Valor, featuring soloists Hila Plitmann, soprano, and Rinat Shaham, mezzo, with actress Tovah Feldshuh as narrator. The symphony previously presented the World Premiere of Women of Valor in 2000 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
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From 2011 to 2014 she served as an associate professor of the Maimonides State Classical Academy, Moscow. From 2011 to 2012 Tokareva was concertmaster of RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. During this stint Tokareva performed an anniversary concert with the renowned Slovenian conductor Anton Nanut at short notice, earning media acclaim for her performance. On April 8, 2017 in the Tartini House in Piran, Tokareva was a soloist in Giuseppe Tartini's 325st Birthday Celebration Concert, performing on one of Tartini's own 18th-century violins.
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Subsequently, he pursued a successful solo career for a short time. Sitt was appointed concertmaster of the Breslau Opera Orchestra in Wrocław in 1867 at age 17, and in Chemnitz from 1873 to 1880. In addition, he was a conductor of repute holding positions with orchestras in France, Austria and Germany. From 1884 to 1921 Sitt held the august position of Professor of Violin at the Leipzig Conservatory, and authored several important studies for violin and viola, some of which are still used.
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' is a German chamber orchestra, specializing in the revival and performance of unknown works, especially from the Baroque era. It was established in Munich in 1983 by Michi Gaigg, who also led the ensemble as concertmaster until 1995. The ensemble takes its name from Giovanni Battista Maccioni's dramatic cantata (The Festive Harp) which was first performed in 1653, inaugurating what was to become the Bavarian State Opera. plays in varying ensembles of up to 40 players, often with choirs and soloists.
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In 1939 he went to the Leipzig Symphony orchestra, but in the course of the transfer of radio musicians to other stations of the in April 1941, he deliberately stayed in Leipzig and was offered a position as 3rd concertmaster. From 1947 to 1958 he changed back to the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. After that he worked under Erich Donnerhack at the State Entertainment Orchestra Halle. In 1938/39, Kirmse was primarius of the string quartet of the city orchestra of Halle.
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He has performed as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hilversum Radio Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. Following two years as concertmaster of the European Community Youth Orchestra, Brind was a founder member of the European Soloists Ensemble. He was also a member of the Mullova Ensemble which recorded the Bach violin concertos on Philips Classics Records. Fellow members included Klaus Stoll, François Leleux, Marco Postinghel and Manuel Fischer-Dieskau.
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At the age of nine, Goldman studied cornet with George Wiegand at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York City. In 1892, after winning a scholarship, he attended the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied music theory and played trumpet in the Conservatory orchestra. He also studied under master cornetist Jules Levy. In 1893 he became a professional trumpet player, performing in such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra alongside his uncle Nahan Franko, the orchestra's concertmaster and assistant conductor.
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In 1990, Bossert premiered Lalo Schifrin's Double Concerto for Cello and Violin with cellist Terry King and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. While concertmaster of the Lubbock Symphony in 1997, she played the violin solos in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade. Bossert has also appeared as a soloist with the Boston Virtuosi and the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra. An experienced chamber musician, Bossert has performed with musical notables such as Elmar Oliveira, Joseph Silverstein, Victor Rosenbaum, Tchaikovsky Gold Medalist Sergey Antonov and Robert Merfeld.
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He was also a student of Josef Wolfsthal. After a recital in Warsaw in 1921, and a debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1924 in which he played three concertos, he was engaged as concert-master of the Dresden Philharmonic from 1925 to 1929. In 1929 he was offered the position of concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic by its principal conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler.Margaret Campell, "Obituary: Szymon Goldberg," The Independent, August 16, 1993 He accepted the position, serving from 1930 to 1934.
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Mantovani was born in Venice, Italy, into a musical family. His father, Bismarck, served as the concertmaster of La Scala opera house's orchestra in Milan, under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. The family moved to England in 1912, where young Annunzio studied at Trinity College of Music in London. After graduation, he formed his own orchestra, which played in and around Birmingham. He married Winifred Moss in 1934, having two children: Kenneth (born 12 July 1935) and Paula Irene (born 11 April 1939).
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In 1920 Aziz Aliyev married Leyla Abbasova, an Erivan-native. Three of their children: Tamerlan, Zarifa and Jamil, pursued careers in medicine. His other daughter Gulara Aliyeva became a composer and concertmaster. In 1948 his daughter Zarifa married Heydar Aliyev, future First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and President of Azerbaijan in 1993–2003, and in 1955 bore their daughter Sevil Aliyeva and in 1961 bore their son Ilham Aliyev, who succeeded his father as President of Azerbaijan in 2003.
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Joachim was amongst the first of these. He served Liszt as concertmaster, and for several years enthusiastically embraced the new "psychological music," as he called it. In 1852 he moved to Hanover, at the same time dissociating himself from the musical ideals of the 'New German School' (Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, and their followers, as defined by journalist Franz Brendel). "The worship of Wagner's music permeating musical taste in Weimar was to Joachim inordinate and unacceptable."Campbell, 1981, p.
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During World War I, he served as a concertmaster and soloist in a military orchestra in Italy. The opera composer Giacomo Puccini was allegedly so impressed by his playing that he dedicated to him several autograph pages from his opera Manon Lescaut. Later, Franz Lehár arranged his transfer to the renowned Austro-Hungarian military ensemble Deutschmeister. After the war, Dauber traveled throughout Central Europe with a salon string quartet; however, ensembles of this kind were gradually replaced by modern jazz orchestras.
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Tutti wind and brass players generally play a unique but non-solo part. Section percussionists play parts assigned to them by the principal percussionist. In modern times, the musicians are usually directed by a conductor, although early orchestras did not have one, giving this role instead to the concertmaster or the harpsichordist playing the continuo. Some modern orchestras also do without conductors, particularly smaller orchestras and those specializing in historically accurate (so-called "period") performances of baroque and earlier music.
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Born in Leipzig, Sannemüller was born in 1951 as son of the concertmaster Horst Sannemüller and the opera singer Philine Fischer. In his youth he learned piano and violin from Klaus Hertel. From 1966 he attended the . From 1969 to 1974 he studied violin with Dieter Hasch at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and viola with Dietmar Hallmann at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Until 1975 he was aspirant at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
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In January 2015, the orchestra announced the extension of Nézet-Séguin's contract to the 2021–22 season. In June 2016, the orchestra announced a further extension of Nézet-Séguin's contract through the 2025–2026 season. In December 2017, the orchestra announced the discontinuation of its relationship with Dutoit and the revocation of his title as its conductor laureate, with immediate effect, in the wake of allegations against him of sexual assault. left The Philadelphia Orchestra's current concertmaster is David Kim.
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The Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major (Hob. VIIa/1) by Joseph Haydn, fatto per il luigi, was written in the 1760s (maybe in 1765) for a well-known violinist of the time, Luigi Tomasini, who was just back from Italy and soon became the concertmaster of the Esterházy orchestra. None of Haydn's violin concertos exist today in autograph form. This work went unpublished until the mid- twentieth century and has come down to violinists in only very few copies (eight manuscripts).
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Forever Gaia II (December 15, 2016) marked her second performance at Suntory Hall, along with concertmaster Takagi. All proceeds benefited the reconstruction efforts of Architect-Humanitarian Shigeru Ban and the Voluntary Architects Network (VAN) in Ecuador’s April 2016 earthquake-stricken areas. Her first composition for piano was commissioned by Argentine film-maker Lalo Gargano and is featured in ‘34’, a Japanese/Argentine independent-film production (2015). In 2019 she teamed with french-horn player Tigrán Ter- Minasyan, performing in Casa de la Musica.
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The Berkshire String Quartet was an American classical chamber group founded and funded in 1916 at the height of World War I by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The quartet, originally, was the Kortschak String Quartet, named for Hugo Kortschak (1884–1957), a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1907 until 1914 (serving as assistant concertmaster from 1910 until 1914). Kortschak was a key figure in organizing the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival founded by Coolidge.Kortschak Recital at Cummington, _The Springfield Republican_ , col 6, pg.
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Elias and Adelyn settled down, and he became concertmaster of the Capitol Theatre Orchestra in New York. In 1925, he became the conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Due to gambling debts, he had to leave Minneapolis, and ended up reestablishing the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1927. After two years there, Elias continued to run up enormous gambling debts, and Adelyn’s father was successful in getting his daughter to agree to end the marriage, effectively ending Elias' career in Pittsburgh as well.
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The CYS comprises several ensembles. In addition to the CYS Orchestra, the senior/advanced level, there is an advanced/intermediate level CYS Associate Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble, Flute Ensemble and Preparatory Ensembles for strings and winds. Overall, CYS musicians number over 500 from the greater San Francisco Bay Area, ranging from elementary school students to high school seniors. Composer-conductor Leo Eylar, former co-concertmaster of the San Jose Symphony conducts the Associate Orchestra and the Senior Orchestra, the CYS premier orchestra.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the first homeowners were primarily realtors, senior partners in law firms and insurance agencies, or the owners and managers of prosperous Detroit businesses. Notable residents have included business owners such as Stanley Winkleman of the Detroit department store chain bearing his name, and musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff entertained visiting conductors and soloists at his University District home. The visiting musicians autographed the wallpaper in the foyer, which remained until 2015.
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However, the orchestra members unanimously elected him as the Concertmaster. In 2003 Braunstein became professor of music at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) and taught there until 2007. Braunstein was involved in re-establishing the Rolandseck Festival in Germany which was closed several years before. Until 2016, he was the Music Director of the festival together with Ohad Ben-Ari Braunstein has appeared in various music festivals worldwide, including Chamber Music Festival in Jerusalem founded by Elena Bashkirova in 2009.
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During that time she played chamber music with Heifetz, Gregor Piatagorsky, Lennard Pennario, and others. During these years Hodgkins also taught at four other Southern California universities, including Loma Linda University, La Sierra Campus, now La Sierra University, where she led the string program and the orchestra. When LLU launched the Blomstedt Conducting Institute in 1971, she served as concertmaster for the orchestra used during that program. She also scheduled a successful ongoing summer string workshop to coincide with the institute.
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Hilliard Greene studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and at the University of Northern Iowa. He worked as musical director for the singer Jimmy Scott for 20 years. For Cecil Taylor he served as concertmaster for the ensemble Phtongos and played in the trio with pianist Don Pullen. Under his own name, Hill worked with his ensemble, The Jazz Expressions, with whom he recorded three albums; He also played in a quartet with Steve Swell, Gebhard Ullmann, and Barry Altschul.
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William Preucil (born January 30, 1958) is an American violinist. During a musical career spanning several decades, he served as concertmaster for four major American orchestras, most notably the Cleveland Orchestra from 1995, until he was dismissed in 2018. He also played with the Cleveland Quartet, which won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 1997. He was a longtime member of the faculty at Cleveland Institute of Music until his resignation in 2018, following allegations of sexual misconduct.
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At the age of ten he was accepted into the Juilliard School Pre-College Division where he won the school-wide concerto competition. His high school years were spent at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He then continued his education and graduated from The Juilliard School in 1998 under the tutorship of Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Felix Galimir and Joel Smirnoff. Kawasaki has served as the concertmaster of a number of orchestras, including the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra (1999–2001) and the Century Orchestra in Osaka, Japan.
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He left for Budapest in order to follow the advice of Vilmos Tátrai. At the end of his studies he obtained a prize from the Ministry of Culture. Passionate about early music, he learnt baroque violin with Patrick Bismuth at the CNSMDP and perfected his skills with Enrico Gatti. After playing with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Les Arts Florissants, he took over the role of concertmaster in ensembles like Il Seminario Musicale, La Simphonie du Marais, Capriccio Stravagante, the Ricercar Consort, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Agrémens.
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The Florida State University College of Music, located in Tallahassee, Florida, is one of sixteen colleges comprising Florida State University. The college houses two Grammy winners, a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, a former leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, and the world's leading scholar in music therapy. As the third-largest music program in higher education, the college's comprehensive curricula embrace all traditional areas of music and world music study from the baccalaureate to the doctoral level.
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Haydn composed the symphony in early 1792. At the time, Haydn was in the midst of the first of his two visits to London, under contract to perform a series of new symphonies with an orchestra led by Johann Peter Salomon as concertmaster. The symphony was performed on 2 March 1792 at the Hanover Square Rooms, with Haydn directing the orchestra from the keyboard. The premiere came two weeks after that of the Symphony No. 93, and one week before that of the Sinfonia Concertante.
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Busse co-composed several of the band's early hit songs, including "Hot Lips" and (with Gussie Mueller) "Wang Wang Blues". The latter sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in 1920. Busse was concertmaster for the Whiteman Band when it toured Europe in the 1920s, and there discovered a song written by a German doctor - . Back in the States, Buddy DeSylva penned new words and the song's name was changed to "When Day is Done"; it was a hit, and made Busse famous.
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Angervo played in the Finnish National Opera Orchestra from 1965 to 1975, first as a member and then as concertmaster for seven years. Since his debut concert in 1970, Angervo has performed as a soloist and chamber musician all around Europe and New Zealand. In the 1970s, he also won prizes in national and international string quartet competitions, including 1st prize in a competition organized by YLE. As a conductor, Angervo has worked for various Finnish city orchestras and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra.
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6, 2009 and a performance at the Inter-American Music Festival in 1961."Today is October 27", Medicine Hat News, Medicine Hat, Alberta, October 27, 2005 Many of its performances were recorded by Radio Canada International and distributed outside Canada. The orchestra recorded with the Mendelssohn Choir, with CBC's Festival Singers, and with pianist Glenn Gould. The CBCSO performed and recorded many of the works of composer/conductor Igor Stravinsky, including his Symphony of Psalms, which featured Stravinsky as conductor and violinist Steven Staryk as concertmaster.
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Born in Eckartsberga, Province of Saxony, he was a pupil of Ferdinand David. He became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in 1853 moved to the court orchestra of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar. From 1860 he taught at the Charitable Society of Violin Playing. At the suggestion of the Bavarian Court Kapellmeister Hans von Bülow - whom he had met in Basel in 1866 and organised joint chamber music - Abel went on to become concertmaster of the court orchestra in Munich in 1867.
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In 1989 she played in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Claudio Abbado and became a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig. Since 1993 Schumann has played as a freelance baroque violinist, primarily in England with the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique. In 1994 she founded her own Ensemble in Leipzig, the , which is especially dedicated to the performance of forgotten chamber music works. For several years (1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1998) she was concertmaster in the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
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From 2008 to 2010, he was the concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and made his solo debut in Davies Symphony Hall as winner of the orchestra's concerto competition in 2010. In 2012 he won first place in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Beijing. He first attended the New England Conservatory for the first two years of his college education and is a senior at Juilliard in New York. His teachers include Li Lin, Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, and Midori Goto.
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In 1987 Tognetti left Australia for post-graduate studies with Igor Ozim at the Bern Conservatory (now known as the University of the Arts Bern). During his time there he became a member of and soloist with the prestigious Camerata Bern, gave solo performances with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, and was guest concertmaster of the Basel Sinfonietta. Finally, at the end of his studies in 1989 he was awarded the Eduard Tschumi MusikpreisFor information about the Eduard Tschumi Musikpreis- Stiftung see . Accessed 5 September 2019.
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Schulz was born in Frankfurt (Oder). After attending a secondary school in Berlin, he studied cello privately with Hugo Dechert in Berlin from 1912 to 1916. From 1916 to 1918 he was a member of the Blüthner Orchestra. In 1918 he became a cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1920 he received a position as 2nd soloist cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1926 he became concertmaster and 1st solo cellist as successor of Eduard Rosé at the Staatskapelle Weimar, where he was active until 1936.
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In 1976, the quartet made their final change of residency and moved to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.CLEVELAND QUARTET - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History The quartet had three personnel changes: violist Atar Arad replaced Strongin Katz in 1980; violist James Dunham then replaced Arad in 1987; and William Preucil replaced Weilerstein as first violin in 1989. The quartet disbanded in 1995. Preucil became concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, a position he held until 2018, when he was fired for sexual misconduct.
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Thull grew up in Bochum, Germany, in an artistically inclined household; his father was concertmaster of the Bochum symphony orchestra. In 1968 he began studying visual communication/photo design/fine-art photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where Pan Walther was among his teachers; he completed his studies in 1973, receiving his degree as a Diplom Designer. After finishing his studies he began his career as an independent fine artist. He initially worked almost exclusively in the field of fine-art photography.
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He studied violin, becoming the second concertmaster at the age of 17 of the local orchestra. In 1934 he began studying violin with Gustav Havemann, composition with Adolf Lessle and Hermann Grabner at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, but had to withdraw in 1935 for financial reasons. During World War II he studied conducting with Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Vienna.Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th edition, 1992 After the war, he moved to Munich where he started the Symphony Orchestra Graunke, conducting it until 1989.
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Mendelssohn wrote this violin concerto for Eduard Rietz (eldest brother of Julius Rietz), a beloved friend and teacher who later served as concertmaster for Mendelssohn's legendary performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, which has been thought to have resurrected Bach in the public image. When Mendelssohn died, his widow gave the manuscript of the long forgotten concerto to Ferdinand David, another close friend of Mendelssohn's and a leading violinist of the period, who in fact had premiered his Violin Concerto in E minor.
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Ernest Llewellyn continued to strengthen and extend the orchestra until his retirement in 1980, at which time the new School of Music auditorium was officially named Llewellyn Hall in his honour. The CSO was lucky to secure Leonard Dommett as the new Conductor and Musical Director in 1982. As the former Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Dommett brought an impressive network of national and international artists to the CSO stage. Throughout the 80’s the orchestra continued to expand and artistic achievement was continually evolving.
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Albert Chamberland (12 October 1886 - 4 April 1975) was a Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, music producer, and music educator. As a violinist he performed as a chamber musician with a number of ensembles, including the Beethoven Trio with whom he made some early recordings for His Master's Voice during the first decade of the 20th century. For HMV he made a few solo recordings and was a concert soloist as well. He performed with a variety of orchestras, serving as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra's first concertmaster.
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Christopher Warren-Green (born 30 July 1955) is a British violinist and conductor. He was born in Gloucestershire and attended Westminster City School, where he was a chorister, and later the Royal Academy of Music. Warren-Green has served as concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Warren-Green has held the position of Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) since 1988. In 2005, Vladimir Ashkenazy invited Warren-Green and the LCO to Hong Kong as the resident orchestra for the Hong Kong International Piano Competition.
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He also conducted at the Royal Opera House in London, in Paris, at the Hamburg State Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, in Stockholm and Geneva. In September 1986 Raymond Leppard conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Singers and Chorus at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, London. At Glyndebourne, he conducted the world premiere of Nicholas Maw's The Rising of the Moon. From 1987 to 2001, Leppard was the music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, where he collaborated with concertmaster Hidetaro Suzuki.
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Violinist Kaoru Kakudo studied at an early age with Etaro Matsubashi. After winning a competition for young musicians and her debut on television, she was admitted to the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where she studied with Tatsuo Uzuka and Takaoki Ono, before concluding her musical education with Ivan Galamian in New York. She held a post as acting concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She had regularly performed as a soloist with her own orchestra and other orchestras and in recitals as well.
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The New York Philharmonic Club, a chamber ensemble of Philharmonic musicians, clowning for their public-relations photograph in the 1880s. New York Philharmonic Archives Leopold Damrosch, Franz Liszt's former concertmaster at Weimar, served as conductor of the Philharmonic for the 1876/77 season. But failing to win support from the Philharmonic's public, he left to create the rival Symphony Society of New York in 1878. Upon his death in 1885, his 23-year-old son Walter took over and continued the competition with the old Philharmonic.
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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 7 years of age. As a student of the Jerusalem Music Center, he has received lessons from Isaac Stern and Sir Yehudi Menuhin. After studying with Ilona Feher he completed his studies in Frankfurt am Main with Edith Peinemann and supplemented them at the Manhattan School of Music with Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Born in Vancouver, Hyslop began his violin studies as a child in his native city with Allard de Ridder and Jean de Rimanoczy. He began his performance career as a teenager performing as a soloist on CNRV radio. Early on in his career he served as concertmaster or as a member of various orchestras associated with the CRBC and CBC in Vancouver. In 1941 Hyslop became music director for CBC Vancouver's Harmony House, a program featuring the singers Pat Morgan and Suzanne and the pianist Bud Henderson.
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Gruppman and his wife Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman were members of the music faculty at Brigham Young University from 1997 to 2003. In 1997 Gruppman was Guest concertmaster for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Igor Gruppman taught at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program (connected with the Idyllwild Arts Foundation) in Idyllwild, California for twenty consecutive years.All Things Strings: Summer Study 2001 H-L In 2003 Gruppman also founded the Gruppman International Music Institute, designed to teach students from all over the world using distant-learning technologies.
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The following year he went to Moscow as Professor of the violin. In 1868 Schradieck returned to Hamburg, to take up the position of conductor of the Philharmonic Society, vacated by Leopold Auer. After six years he became concertmaster at the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, professor at the Leipzig Conservatory, and leader of the theater orchestra. In need of a complete change, he left Leipzig for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught at the College of Music of Cincinnati, and also organized a symphony orchestra.
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Michael Krausz is the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra at Bryn Mawr. The GHCO is composed of 42 young professional and conservatory musicians, and has collaborated with principal players of the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra as soloists. Krausz studied violin with Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster Josef Gingold. He received his early conducting coaching from his father, Laszlo Krausz, noted violist with l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Cleveland Orchestra, and conductor of the Akron Symphony Orchestra.
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Michael Schnitzler was born to Austrian parents, including his father Heinrich (1902–1982), who fled from the country after the Anschluss in 1938. He is also the grandson of the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. In 1959 the family moved back to Vienna, where he studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. At the age of 15 he played in the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic as a substitute, and from 1967 to 1983 he was first concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony.
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Most recently, Lamon was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada on July 13, 2000 in Ottawa. This award honours her for her distinguished work as a baroque violinist, concertmaster, chamber musician, teacher, and Music Director of Tafelmusik. In 2014, she was made a Member of the Order of Ontario. In October 2012, Lamon announced that after 33 years of directing Tafelmusik, she would be stepping down as full-time music director after the 2013/14 season after a career of recording, performing, and touring.
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Also, some composers write divided (divisi) parts for the basses, where upper and lower parts in the music are often assigned to "outside" (nearer the audience) and "inside" players. Composers writing divisi parts for bass often write perfect intervals, such as octaves and fifths, but in some cases use thirds and sixths. Where a composition calls for a solo bass part, the principal bass invariably plays that part. The section leader (or principal) also determines the bowings, often based on bowings set out by the concertmaster.
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Stockhausen composed the Sonatine as the second of two "free works" required for his final examinations at the Cologne Conservatory . The piano part of the first movement was composed originally as a separate work, titled Präludium, and the violin part was then superimposed . The manuscript of the completed composition is dated 19 March 1951. It was premiered by Wolfgang Marschner, concertmaster of the NWDR Symphony Orchestra, with the composer at the piano, in a broadcast recording transmitted for the first time on 24 August 1951 (; ).
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Harald Heide (March 8, 1876 – January 27, 1956) was a Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer.Norsk biografisk leksikon: Harald Heide. Heide was born in Fredrikstad, the son of the violin-maker Johan Albert Heide (1847–1925). He studied music theory and violin at the Oslo Conservatory of Music from 1891 to 1896, and after that studied violin in Berlin under Florián Zajíc. He taught at the Bergen Music School from 1898 to 1899 and was the concertmaster at the National Theater orchestra in Oslo from 1899 to 1903.
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During this time, however, he had composed a Violin Concerto and he had been asked to perform it with the Vienna Philarmonic Orchestra. It was so well received that he had no trouble obtaining a position with the Austrian Orchestra as it assistant conductor and concertmaster. It was also at this juncture that he decided to embark on a tour of the United States of America in 1893, abandoning the career chosen for him by his mother. His parents were heart-broken at his sudden departure.
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He left for the United States in 1941 and taught in New York and L'Alliance Francais in Louiseville, Quebec, Canada. During the war, he taught piano in New York City and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. While he was in New York, he gave recitals with the violinist John Corigliano, Sr. (Corigliano was the longtime concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic).Isidor Philipp, pianist After the war, he spent the rest of his life between New York City and Paris.
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Erben was born in 1965 in Leipzig as the son of the cellist Friedemann Erben and the pianist Mathilde Erben. He received his first violin lessons at the age of five from Klaus Hertel, and from 1972 he was his pupil in the children's class of the Leipzig Academy.Frank-Michael Erben at the Boston Symphony Orchestra In 1987, at the age of 21, Erben was elected first concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Since 1993 he has also been the first violinist of the Gewandhaus Quartet.
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Lorin Hollander was born in New York City into a Jewish family. His father, Max Hollander, was associate concertmaster of the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Lorin Hollander was a child prodigy and gave his first public performance at age five playing excerpts of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, and at age eleven, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the National Orchestral Association. He studied with Eduard Steuermann from age eight and took courses at what is now the Juilliard Pre-College at age eleven.
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Fritz Kreisler passed the instrument onto Cuban violinist Angel Reyes who in turn made it available to Itzhak Perlman. Perlman recorded the Khachaturian Concerto on the Kreisler Bergonzi and on the cover of the album he is pictured holding it. After Perlman, the violin was played by Ruben Gonzales, who was concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony. In 1995 the instrument was purchased by the noted violin collector David Fulton who retained it until 2006 when the violin was purchased by the Dextra Musica foundation.
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From 1939 he worked as an accompanist of the Lviv House of Pioneers, a teacher at a music school. After the Second World War he became a member and since 1951 chairman of the Lviv regional branch of the Union of Soviet Composers of Ukraine, worked as concertmaster of the Lviv Drama Theater, and from 1952 – a teacher at the Lviv Conservatory (since 1973 – professor). Died on 30 November 1983 in Lviv. His grave could be found in Lychakiv Cemetery (field No. 3) in Lviv.
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Commemorative plaque at 4 Raoul Wallenberg Street in Budapest where Vilmos Tátrai resided. Shortly after this award, Tátrai became concertmaster of the Hungarian National Philharmonic, a position he held until 1982, when he founded the Hungarian Chamber Orchestra in 1957, of which he was the leader, although the ensemble did not have a conductor. His autobiography was published posthumously in 2001. In 2012, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, a month-long exhibition on his life and work took place at the Müpa Budapest.
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"Maybe the moment I like most about my role as a musician is rehearsal. The moment in which something is built, more than the moment in which the product is presented. The moment of the 'work in progress' is really very special for me." Since 2008 Lorenza Borrani has been Leader (concertmaster) of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with which she performed, among others, under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Andras Schiff and Simon Rattle.
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Karl Johann Suske (born 15 March 1934) is a German violinist. In the course of his more than forty-year career as a musician, Suske has been first concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as well as the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. He was also a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet and founder of a quartet named after him in Berlin. Until 1990 Suske held professorships at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
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Harry Banducci was born in 1922 in Bakersfield, California to Italian Americans Fred and Meda (née Chicca) Banducci. He came to San Francisco at age 13 to study under the concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony. He supported himself as a violinist early in life but always maintained that he began playing a little too late to become a truly world- class great player. He also dabbled in singing operatic music with his deep voice and changed his first name to "Enrico" after his idol Enrico Caruso.
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Several short animated films by Phil Mulloy use his music. He founded and leads the Balanescu Quartet and is a founding member of the Michael Nyman Band, performing on most of their albums, except between 1994 and 1998, as well as other ensembles playing Michael Nyman's music. He left the band during the recording of Facing Goya, and his concertmaster seat was assumed by Gabrielle Lester. Balanescu has lived in London for over 40 years and is married to the viola player Katie Wilkinson.
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Llewellyn was appointed Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1949, and Assistant Conductor in 1959. From 1949 to 1955 he was the leader of the ABC String Quartet. In 1952 he again toured New Zealand, this time as part of the Llewellyn-Kennedy Piano Trio (with John Kennedy, cello, and Scylla Kennedy, piano; they were the parents of Nigel Kennedy, although they never married). When Isaac Stern toured Australia again in 1954, he and Llewellyn played Bach's Double Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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From 1954 to 1956 Binder was a member of the Wiener Sängerknaben. He then studied violin, piano, organ, singing, composition and orchestral conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the Musikhochschule in Vienna. During his studies he already worked as a répétiteur in the singing classes of Elisabeth Radó and Christl Mardayn at the same university. After his studies, Binder held concert master positions in the Bregenz Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, as first concertmaster at the Bayreuth Festival, the Vienna Philharmonic and the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg.
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After the war, he became concertmaster of the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra.Biography at World ORT's Music and the HolocaustIn Memoriam Paul Kling He taught at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada for 20 years, and was later became a professor emeritus and director of the music school (1980–87). He later taught violin at the University of British Columbia. In 1995, The Emperor of Atlantis was performed for the first time at Theresienstadt in a production of ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre.
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One of the two men with whom she associates, Dietrich, a bartender whose prime motive appears to be finding "something fuckable", describes her as "a consumer cripple with an amputated soul", which she admits to with pride. The other, Robert, is a concertmaster who can only get excited at the thought of long-dead film divas of yesteryear. Paprika's most characteristic sexual activity is masturbating to the late program on Arte; the first edition of the novel reputedly fell open at this scene.Foell, p.
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Jessica Linnebach (born 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta)Young Alberta violinist Jessica Linnebach wins Sylva Gelber Foundation Award 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 Stradivarius (1700) on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.Jessica Linnebach Since her solo debut at the age of seven, Linnebach has performed with top orchestras, including those of Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver.
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Robert Zimansky (born 20 April 1948, Iowa City, Iowa) is an American violinist living in Basel, Switzerland. After early studies with John Ferrell at the University of Iowa, Zimansky studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Sally Thomas and Ivan Galamian. He came to Europe in 1972 and held 1st Concertmaster positions in Munich, Stuttgart, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. All of these orchestras allowed him the freedom to pursue his solo career.
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Kobialka played violin on several tracks on the 1975 rock album Ambrosia (by the band of the same name), including the solo on the hit "Holdin' on to Yesterday". Kobialka played as the principal second violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa from September 1975 to September 2008. He was also the founding concertmaster and soloist with San Francisco’s Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra with George Cleve. His own “Concerto for the Zeta-Polyphonic Electronic Violin” premiered in March 1991. With the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, he gave both the American premiere of Toru Takemitsu’s “Far Calls, Coming Far,” and the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s "Rhapsody." With the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Shaw he premiered Ben Weber’s Violin Concerto No. 1, dedicated to him. He also served as Concertmaster for the premier of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, which opened in the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Kobialka was on the faculty of the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a recipient of the Medium Term Grant to study traditional and contemporary music by the Japanese government.
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Riepel was the son of a farmer and innkeeper. He attended the Jesuit College in Steyr and began philosophical studies in Linz and Graz, but distinguished himself early on as a violinist. In 1735–1736 he toured the Balkan Peninsula as valet of General Alexander Graf d'Ollone in the 7th Austrian war against the Turks. From 1739 to 1745 he lived in Dresden, where he claims to have regularly frequented Jan Dismas Zelenka and the concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendel had by his own admission and received his first real musical training here.
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Dmitry Sinkovsky () is a Russian virtuoso violinist, concertmaster, countertenor and conductor. Sinkovsky started playing violin at age 5. He has been a prizewinner in the Bach Competition (2006), Musica Antiqua Competition (2008), and Romanus Weichlein (2009). He has performed in Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia and the United States with such orchestras as the Canadian Arion Baroque Orchestra, Finnish Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, German Concerto Köln, Italian Il Giardino Armonico, Spanish Sevillian Orquesta Barroca, Australian Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, both Pratum Integrum and Musica Petropolitana of Russia and in the United States with the Seattle Symphony.
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Following a two- year search, the Orchestra on June 12, 2013, announced the appointment of Andrew Grams as its next Music Director. Isabella Lippi has been the Orchestra's concertmaster since 2004. In 1996, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra moved its administrative and box offices from Elgin Community College, the Orchestra’s home for nearly 50 years, to downtown Elgin. In 1997, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra began broadcasting its Classic Series concerts on WFMT 98.7-FM, Chicago’s Fine Arts Station; performances are available on WFMT’s cable network in 38 states, and throughout the world on the Internet.
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In 1958 he became the soloist and leader of the orchestra of the Symphonic Orchestra of Kaposvár. In February 1967 he applied for a position mentioned in an advertisement published in the magazine Das Orchester a position for concertmaster in the concert orchestra 'Pfälzische Philharmonie, Staatsorchester Rheinland-Pfalz' (See more here). He counted this as one of his greatest successes, that despite being 48 years old, he was selected from among seventeen other applicants, with an age-rebate and a sample material doubled by himself.Autobiography of Dezső Lehota, manuscript, Szeged, 2013.
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He had a brilliant first tenor voice and soon became one of the prominent soloist of the ensemble. In 1935 he was enlisted into the newly formed combined Kyiv Bandurist Capella where in time he became concertmaster. A number of his arrangements were recorded on record in the 1930s and he also was featured on a number of recordings as tenor soloist. In 1937 Nazarenko was slated to become artistic director of the chorus, but was sidestepped when the choice fell to Danylo Pika because of his membership in the Communist party.
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Seal was born in London and raised in Rochester, Kent where he began his violin studies at the age of nine. He attended Chatham Grammar School for Boys and played in the Kent County Youth Orchestra, first as a violist and later as the orchestra's first violin and concertmaster. He continued his musical studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he won the Birmingham Philharmonic Concerto Prize. He joined the CBSO as a violinist in 1992.Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (15 Aori 2016). "Conservatoire music competition goes full circle as former winner conducts this year’s final".
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He played in jazz and variety orchestras and he was also a concertmaster of the variety orchestra of the Estonian Television and Estonian Radio. A recognized conductor Peeter Lilje (1950-1993) was born in Valga where he also got his musical education. Lilje was a concert-master and conductor of "Estonia" and the principal conductor of ERSO and Oulu City Orchestra. He conducted symphony orchestras in many countries world-wide. An actress Adeele Sepp from a popular show “Kättemaksukontor“ is from Tõrva City Madis Kõiv (1929-2014) spent his childhood in Tõrva and in Valga.
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In 1973, she won a third prize at the Montreal International Competition, before obtaining in 1979, the Georges Enesco prize of Paris, in the "Meilleure violoniste de l'année" category. Concertmaster of the Melos Ensemble of London, she was, from 1976 to 1982, violin solo at the Ensemble intercontemporain then joined the Ivaldi Quartet. She is the regular guest of the Asolo, Naples, and Marlboro ("senior" since 1983) festivals and participates in various summer academies (Flaine, Les Arcs, Rambouillet, Périgueux, Portogruaro). Since 1985, Gazeau has been a teacher of violin and chamber music at the CNSMDP.
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The performance is still regularly referred to by criticsConcert Hall Curveballs: Bernstein and Gould : NPR Music and features in retrospectives of Gould's career.NPR's Performance Today Gould, speaking in 1982, was unrepentant: Musical humorist Peter Schickele, in The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, referred to this concert in his entry for P.D.Q. Bach's Concerto for Piano vs. Orchestra; he then claimed that at the premiere of the P.D.Q. Bach concerto, the conductor, pianist, and concertmaster all turned to the audience, and in unison disassociated themselves with the piece itself.Schickele, Peter.
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He was enthusiastic, and then Petre was found and finally Albert Sammons, the new Concertmaster of Thomas Beecham's orchestra, to lead the quartet. They rehearsed four times a week for nearly two years before giving their first concert. There was to be no 'boss': if anyone disagreed with tempo or phrasing he spoke out, the point was discussed, and the decision made if necessary by voting. The first concert was on 26 January 1910, at Bechstein (Wigmore) Hall, as the 'New' Quartet, playing Dohnanyi in D flat, Tchaikovsky in D, and a Fantasy Quartet (No.
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Yakov Kreizberg succeeded Haenchen as chief conductor of the NKO and NedPhO in 2003, and held the posts until his death in March 2011. Since 2004, Gordan Nikolitch has served as NKO concertmaster. In March 2009, the NKO announced the appointment of Marc Albrecht as the orchestra's fifth chief conductor, starting with the 2011-2012 season, for an initial contract of 4 years, in parallel with his appointment as chief conductor of the NedPhO and of Dutch National Opera. Albrecht concluded his NKO chief conductorship at the close of the 2019-2020 season.
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Jaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder (31 December 1925 – 1 January 2020)Dutch violinist and musicologist Jaap Schröder dies aged 94 was a Dutch violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France. In the 1960s he was a member of the Dutch early music group Concerto Amsterdam and made recordings with Gustav Leonhardt, Anner Bylsma, Frans Brüggen and others. He served as the director and concertmaster of the Academy of Ancient Music, and in 1982 he was appointed the visiting music director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players.
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He stayed in India for 27 years. There he became acquainted with Mother Teresa, the Mountbatten family (the last English viceroy in India), Pandit Nehru (Indian Prime Minister), and Gandhi, among others. But probably he kept a closer friendship with Mehli Mehta (father of the orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta, and to whom he taught music), who had established the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, of which he was its conductor and concertmaster. The fruitful musical collaboration with Mehta culminated in 1952 with the concert tour of India given by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Bornoff studied in his native city with Gus Hughes (1916–18), John Waterhouse (1919–20), I.S. Garbovitsky (1922-4), and Jean de Rimanoczy (1925-8). He was a member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 1923–1936 and served as concertmaster of the Winnipeg String Orchestra from 1925-1928. He also played in the orchestras of the CKY and CJRC radio stations from 1934–1943 and played regularly in orchestras at the CRBC and CBC from 1925-1943. He also played throughout Western Canada as a concert violinist.
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The Virtuoso Violin was debuted at the Frankfurt Music Trade Show, and guests were both excited about the new invention and confused as to how it worked. The novelty of the digital-to-analog player violin has been a huge hit, and the Virtuoso Violin has been used as a replacement to the concertmaster soloist at concerts mainly for show reasons. The price of the violin was originally estimated at under $10,000 just before its release. In 2003, its price was $12,500 and has risen since to nearly $22,000.
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Born on 1 October 1908 in Copenhagen, Herman David Koppel was the son of Isak Meyer Koppel (1888–1970) and Maria Hendeles (1889–1984). He was born shortly after his Jewish parents had emigrated to Denmark from Poland. Like his younger brother Julius (1910–2005), a violinist and concertmaster, he studied piano from the age of 17 at the Royal Danish Conservatory under Rudolph Simonsen and Emilius Bangert. In addition, he studied privately under the Norwegian-Danish pianist Anders Rachlew (1882–1970) and undertook study trips to Germany, England and France.
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In May 1944, Dohnányi disbanded his ensemble, in 1945, Tibor Ney became once again the concertmaster of the reorganized Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1966. He played together as soloist and chamber music partner with several outstanding musicians, just among them the Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer. One of their recordings was the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 conducted by Otto Klemperer (1950).Recorded live in the studio of Hungarian Radio on 13 January 1950, published in 1980 He premiered Rezső Kókai's Concerto for violin and orchestra (1953).
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Edgar Ortenberg (born Eleazar Ortenberg, June 17, 1900 - May 16, 1996) was a violinist in the Budapest String Quartet and taught violin at the Settlement Music School and Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born Eleazar Ortenberg in Odessa, his teachers included Naoum Blinder at the Odessa Conservatory and Jacques Thibaud in Paris. He was 15 years old when he began attending the Odessa Conservatory, and at 21 became the concertmaster of the Odessa Opera Orchestra. He left Russia in 1924 because of anti-Semitism after the Russian Revolution.
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During that time he has appeared with over 100 orchestras across the world in locations such as Moscow, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Houston, Helsinki, Caracas, Brussels, and Shanghai. In 1982, he tied for 3rd Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, which helped launched his global career. He is also noted as frequent collaborative musician, having worked with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Sir André Previn, Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, and others. Cárdenes has been concertmaster at notable orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony, Utah Symphony, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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His recital programs include works from the standard literature, his own compositions, and improvisations on themes provided by the audience. In 2007 Lowry released an album of original piano compositions featuring his large, 14 movement work Stations of the Cross. In 2011 he released two albums: Da Capo - a collection of piano works by Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Satie and Scriabin; and an album with CSO Concertmaster Edward Eanes featuring Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 4, as well as works for piano solo (Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas, and the Fantasia, op. 77).
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' (O holy bath of Spirit and water), 165', is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Weimar for Trinity Sunday and led the first performance on 16 June 1715. Bach had taken up regular cantata composition a year before when he was promoted to concertmaster at the Weimar court, writing one cantata per month to be performed in the , the court chapel in the ducal Schloss. was his first cantata for Trinity Sunday, the feast day marking the end of the first half of the liturgical year.
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Early orchestras did not utilize a conductor, but instead the concertmaster or the continuo player, generally the harpsichordist, led the orchestra. As the orchestra grew in size throughout the latter half of the 18th century, composers generally conducted their music to facilitate more expedient and efficient rehearsal and performance preparation. By the 19th century, conductors were considered an integral part of the orchestra and a distinct role separate from the composer. Most if not all performances were led by a conductor throughout the 19th century into the early 20th century.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1972 by cellist Julian Fifer and a group of fellow musicians who sought to incorporate chamber music techniques into orchestral playing. The orchestra has been conductorless since its inception and all members rotate leadership roles depending on the demands of the piece performed. In 1975, cellist John Painter founded the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). The ACO is a conductorless chamber orchestra led by concertmaster Richard Tognetti, appointed artistic director and lead violin in 1990. The ACO functions as an ‘ensemble of soloists’ and gravitates toward cross-genre programming.
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Samuel (Sam) Swaap, the son of David Swaap (1859-1942) and Elisabeth Halberstad (1853-1928) began playing the violin at the age of eight, receiving his first violin lessons from H.M Hofmeester. He enrolled in the Amsterdam Conservatorium and studied under Carl Flesch from the years 1904 to 1907. Swaap made his debut as a soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the age of sixteen and entered the orchestra's first violin section in 1909. In 1913, Swaap went to Finland for two years to serve as a concertmaster in Abo.
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One of his students during this post-1945 period was violinist Hidetaro Suzuki, no relation, who later became a veteran of international violin competitions (Tchaikovsky, Queen Elizabeth, Montreal International) and then the longtime concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. (Hermann, 1981) Eventually, the center of the Suzuki movement in education was established as the Talent Education Research Institute (TERI) in Matsumoto. TERI hosts thousands of people each year—students, parents, teachers, (and teacher trainees). Other organizations have sprung up all over the world to help oversee the movement and train teachers.
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Much of the detail about Dethier's early life is from this source, which was published by the Juilliard School. At seventeen Dethier already had a teaching post at the Brussels Conservatory and remained in the city for the next three years, living with his close friend and fellow violinist Paul Kochanski. During that time he was also appointed concertmaster of the orchestra of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (the main opera house in Brussels) and played in Eugène Ysaÿe's symphony orchestra.Ysaÿe was a boyhood friend of Dethier's father.
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In the early 1950s he collaborated with the poet Peter Yates and the architect Rudolf Shindler to create a concert space on top of Yates's home where the concert series "Evenings on the Roof" introduced works by Béla Bartók, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. He worked with Stravinsky as concertmaster of the Ojai Festivals in the 1950s, and collaborated with him on an arrangement of Circus Polka. He played the violin part on a Columbia Broadcasting System's performance of l'Histoire du Soldat. He also created fingering for Schoenberg.
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From 1944 to 1958, he was principal cellist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana, when, then, was conducted by Erich Kleiber. Alexander Prilutchi (1913–2001) was concertmaster and, from 1945 to 1953, J. Wolfgang Granat (1918–1998) was first violist. Granat went to play viola with the Philadelphia Orchestra for 35 years, until he retired in 1991. In Havana, Odnoposoff had been a member of a trio of Sociedad de Música de Cámara (Chamber Music Society) — with Prilutchi and pianist Paquito Godino (né Francisco Jose Godino; 1919–1996).
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Viscardi was homeschooled for high school, supplemented with mathematics classes at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a pianist and violinist, and onetime concertmaster of the San Diego Youth Symphony. Viscardi is a member of the Harvard College class of 2010.Herchel Smith Research Fellows to begin this summer He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, receiving a 2010 Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Prize, and earning 2011 Morgan Prize honorable mention for his senior thesis "Alternate Compactifications of the Moduli Space of Genus One Maps".
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He then toured Europe with his twelve-year-old brother Tossy, who had debuted as a violin prodigy in Berlin a few years earlier. They were greatly celebrated everywhere and received "rather overwhelming" attention from the public in the streets of Copenhagen after performing for the Danish royal family."Spivakovsky: Russian Pianist Arrives, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Mar 1922" Dutch critics declared Tossy "The Young Joachim" and Scandinavian critics declared him without equal.Australian Women's Weekly, 1934 He was soon appointed the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by Furtwängler.
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At its February 11, 2012, Masterworks Concert, which featured Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, the CSO performed the South Carolina premiere of a violin concerto by local composer Edward Hart, and CSO Concertmaster Yuriy Bekker played a priceless 1686 Stradivarius violin. At this concert, the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium was at 99% capacity. This concert became the highest-grossing concert in the history of the organization until a Masterworks concert on February 26 and 27, 2016, featuring pianist Sandra Wright Shen. From 2010 to 2014, Bekker served as Acting Artistic Director.
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Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (also Capucci; 1 August 1755 – 28 March 1818) was an Italian violinist and composer. He studied in Venice, Italy under the direction of A. Nazari (violin) and F. G. Bertoni (composition). Beginning in 1780, he was concertmaster with the orchestra at the Teatro di S. Samuele and eventually became the orchestral director at the Teatro di S. Benedetto. After his tenure at the Teatro di S. Samuele in 1805, he became orchestral director and a professor in the conservatory at S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy.
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In 1971 Thompson became the concertmaster of the Orchestra London Canada and joined the music faculty at the University of Western Ontario. She remained in both posts until 1975 when she was appointed the head of the string department at the Vancouver Academy of Music, a position she held until 1991. She also taught on the music faculty of the University of British Columbia from 1975 to 1983. She has also been highly active as a teacher of masterclasses and as a competition adjudicator in both Canada and the United States.
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Conni Ellisor (born September 25, 1953) is a contemporary American composer and violinist. She was trained at The Juilliard School and the University of Denver's University of Denver, Lamont School of Music, and rose to prominence as Composer-in-Residence of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra in the late 1990s. As a violinist, she has served as a member of the Denver Symphony, concertmaster of the Boulder Philharmonic, first violin in the Athena Quartet (now the Colorado Quartet), and is now a top-call studio musician and member of the Nashville String Machine.Nashville Studio Orchestra.
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It is standard practice for members of each string section to bow (i.e. to draw the bow back and forth across the strings) in unison, usually following directions inscribed on the sheet music by the concertmaster. Under free bowing, however, the string members each determine individually the best way to play a set of notes, collectively producing a deeper sound, free of mechanical restriction. Free bowing is rarely used today due to its lack of communal focus, which can cause musicians to play out of step with each other.
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While in China, Norman conducted master classes and represented the orchestra to Madame Mao. During his tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carol also held a faculty appointment at his alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music, for over 40 years. After his retirement from the orchestra, Carol continued to teach and performed and recorded with a chamber music ensemble, the Philadelphia Piano Quartet, for 11 years. The quartet included Toby Blumenthal on piano, former concertmaster Lamar Alsop (and the father of distinguished conductor Marin Alsop) on viola, and Bert Phillips on cello.
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Between 1906 and 1909 he taught at the Chicago Musical College, in 1911 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and 1912 at the Conservatoire de musique in Geneva. In 1909 and 1910 he briefly was a member of The Dutch Trio, which transposed into the Heermann-van Lier String Quartet. He served as concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a period beginning in 1909; he was succeeded in that post by his son Emil.Madison Symphony Orchestra – Historical Pages , "Second Movement: A Tale of Two Maestros, 1947–1961" by Michael Allsen.
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In 1914 Venth was appointed Dean of Fine Arts at Texas Woman's College (now Texas Wesleyan University) in Fort Worth. Venth remained in Fort Worth until 1931 but served as concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony from 1927 to 1931. In 1931, he moved to San Antonio to become Dean of Fine Arts at Westmoreland College (which was renamed the University of San Antonio during Venth's tenure and is now known as Trinity University), where he taught violin, harmony, and theory. Throughout his professional life Venth was active as a composer.
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She has received her master's degree at the Munich Music Conservatory and held the position of an alternating concertmaster with the Scandinavian symphony orchestra Aarhus Symfoniorkester. In 2005 she became aware of her capability to improvise on her violin. During the following year she did numerous solo violin improv performances at prestigious cultural institutions, such as the National Gallery, Berlin (Germany) and Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland). She left the orchestra in 2006 to create / perform her own music (Electronic / Pop / World / Celtic new age / Classical crossover), using her violin as the primary voice.
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In 1797 he published Metodo per Violino, a treatise on violin playing; it can be regarded as demonstrating the style of a transitional period between the Baroque and Classical era.Chapter 4 Dallin Richard Hansen, The Bouncing Bow: A Historical Examination of "off-the-string" Violin Bowing accessed 11 July 2014. He left the court of the Duke of Courland, and in 1797 he was appointed concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a post he retained until 1818. He visited Paris in 1801, where he was impressed by the playing of the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer.
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Tanfield led the Australian String Quartet from 1998 until 2001. As a soloist Tanfield has appeared with many orchestras; the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Rome. As concertmaster he has worked with the BBC Philharmonic, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has performed with Astor Piazolla, Charlie Watts, Pinchas Zukerman, Yehudi Menuhin, Charles Wuorinen, Arvo Pärt, Graeme Koehne, Gary Carr, Carlo Maria Giulini, Mark Gasser and Itzhak Perlman.
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Angelika Bachmann, born in 1972 in Hamburg, was exempted from the regular school curriculum and was thus able to devote her time entirely to playing the violin. This enabled her to make her solo debut with the Hamburger Symphoniker at the tender age of seven. She studied with Roland Greutter, concertmaster of the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others, which helped her win first prize multiple times in Germany's prestigious Jugend musiziert competition. In 2007 she published Flexible Strings: Five Pieces for Variable String Ensemble, a collection of her arrangements, with Breitkopf & Härtel.
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The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, the organization's oldest orchestra, was founded by the Music and Art Foundation in 1942, and its first conductor was Francis Aranyi."Virginia Boren Hears About Youth's Symphony; Music and Art to Sponsor Group," Seattle Times, 17 July 1942. He was an internationally famous violinist who performed with many of the greatest orchestras in Europe, and knew such leading composers as Béla Bartók and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1941 Aranyi came to Seattle as concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, a position he retained for one season.
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Signatur of Max Strub, 1965 Karl Johannes Max Strub (28 September 1900 – 23 March 1966) was a German violin virtuoso and eminent violin pedagogue. He gained a Europe-wide reputation during his 36 years of activity as primarius of the Strub Quartet. Stations as concertmaster led him from the 1920s to the operas of Stuttgart, Dresden and Berlin. Appointed Germany's youngest music professor at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar in 1926, he followed calls to the Berlin University of the Arts and, after the Second World War to the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
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Her repertoire covers the period from baroque to contemporary music, including premieres of works dedicated to her by Bustamante, Cueva, Ruiz Pipó, Greco, Torres, Taverna-Bech. Mariana has made numerous recordings for the Spanish Television and Radio. She performs on a regular basis at the most important festivals and chamber music cycles in Spain, and is regularly invited as concertmaster by the Real Filarmonía de Galicia. In 2000 she performed in concert the violin concerto "Ardor" by José Luis Greco, dedicated to her, with the Symphony Orchestra of Gran Canaria.
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The final straw is when Bach applies for another position for Prince Leopold in Cothen, angering the Duke and the concertmaster. They arrest Bach, separate Frederick from Bach, and put Frederick on probation. Meanwhile, Josef gets enraged when Frederick still supports Bach, but Frederick is fed up with how his family still has to continue to pander to the Duke and declares Bach is freer than Josef and anyone else in the household. Frederick runs away and Josef storms up to Bach's jail and rips up his music.
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The composer's brother Ferdinand played the organ, Michael Holzer served as choirmaster, Joseph Mayseder served as concertmaster, Therese Grob sang the soprano solo, and Schubert conducted. Schubert's teacher Antonio Salieri may have attended the premiere; afterwards, he is said to have embraced his student with the words "" ("You will bring me yet more honour"). Ferdinand wrote that a second performance took place ten days later at St Augustine's Court Church, before a prestigious audience that may have included foreign dignitaries. Schubert's love for Therese Grob may have been kindled during the writing of this mass.
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She was born into a family of musicians in Hamburg, Germany. Her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra, and founder of the Hamann Quartet; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at the Trossingen School of Music. Evelyn Hamann liked to keep her private life out of the public eye, so little is known about her life off-camera. Between 1964 and 1976 she was married to Hans Walter Braun, whom she met while acting in Hamburg.
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In 1908 Charles Warwick-Evans !1885-1974) was leader of the Queen's Hall cellos and Warner was first viola in Thomas Beecham's New Symphony Orchestra. Warwick-Evans formed the idea of a string quartet worked up to the standard of a solo virtuoso, and approached Warner.'British Players and Singers – vii: The London String Quartet, Musical Times 1 August 1922 He was enthusiastic, and then Thomas W. Petre (second violin) was found and finally Albert Sammons, the new Concertmaster of Beecham's orchestra, was asked to lead the quartet.
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Lamon, born in New York City and raised in the state of New York, began studying the violin at the age of seven. She studied violin at the Westchester Conservatory of Music with Editha Braham and Gabriel Banat. Later she attended Brandeis University in Boston where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree studying violin with Robert Koff, the original second violinist of the Juilliard Quartet. From Brandeis University, Lamon left the USA to study in the Netherlands with Herman Krebbers, then the concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.
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Giray is director of orchestral studies at University of Mississippi. Previously, he served as assistant professor of music education and violin pedagogy at Wichita State University School of Music (2012–2015). Between 2007 and 2015, he served as concertmaster of The Ohio Light Opera, where he performed for 20,000 patrons each season and has been featured on eight CDs for Albany Records. Giray served as associate professor of violin, viola and artistic director and conductor of PSU Chamber Orchestra and Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra at Pittsburg State University (between 2002–2012).
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Schlosskirche in Weimar Born in 1685, Bach established his reputation as an outstanding organist while in his teens. He moved to Weimar in 1708 to take up a position as court organist to the co- reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. He had already begun to compose cantatas at his previous posts at Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, and his reasons for moving included disappointment with the standard of singing at the churches where he had worked. He was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle on 2 March 1714.
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He also played in the Orchestre Lamoureux and worked at the opera houses in Mainz and Cologne. In spring 1903, he became concertmaster of the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest and in 1910 teacher for violin and later professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. On 20 April 1916, Baré performed the solo violin in the first part of (Une idéale) and Two Portraits Op. 5 by Béla Bartók together with the Orchestra of the Budapest Opera conducted by István Strasser, the two movements being performed together for the first time.
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In some cases, the principal bass may use a slightly different bowing than the concertmaster, to accommodate the requirements of playing bass. The principal bass also leads entrances for the bass section, typically by lifting the bow or plucking hand before the entrance or indicating the entrance with the head, to ensure the section starts together. Major professional orchestras typically have an assistant principal bass player, who plays solos and leads the bass section if the principal is absent. While orchestral bass solos are somewhat rare, there are some notable examples.
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Szymon Goldberg (1 June 190919 July 1993) was a Polish-born Jewish classical violinist and conductor, latterly an American. Born in Włocławek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw. His first teacher was Henryk Czaplinski, a pupil of the great Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík; his second was Mieczysław Michałowicz, a pupil of Leopold Auer.The Strad, "Berlin Philharmonic pays tribute to former concertmaster Szymon Goldberg," January 21, 2014 In 1917, at age eight, Goldberg moved to Berlin to study the violin with the legendary pedagogue Carl Flesch.
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During these years, he also performed in a string trio with Paul Hindemith on viola and Emanuel Feuermann on cello,Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music and also led a string quartet of Berlin Philharmonic members.The Strad, "Berlin Philharmonic pays tribute to former concertmaster Szymon Goldberg," January 21, 2014 The rise of the Third Reich forced Goldberg to leave the orchestra in 1934, despite Furtwängler's attempts to safeguard the Jewish members of the orchestra. Thereafter, he toured Europe with the pianist Lili Kraus. He made his American debut in New York in 1938 at Carnegie Hall.
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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 at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Ivan Galamian and later in Switzerland with Joseph Szigeti and Toscha Seidel. In 1958 he won the Leventritt International Violin competition and consequently was invited by George Szell to take second chair in the Cleveland Orchestra's first violin section (next to concertmaster Josef Gingold).
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After the dissolution of Rastatt chapel in 1771, he became concertmaster of the Badische Staatskapelle in Karlsruhe. In January 1775, Schmittbaur was given the position of Kapellmeister of Cologne Cathedral, where he was deeply influenced by the conservative musical activities of the musical academies. Two years later, upon the death of Giacinto Sciatti in 1777, he returned to Karlsruhe to become Kapellmeister. He retired from his duties as Kapellmeister in 1804, leaving his place at the court to his son, Ludwig Joseph Abbe (1755-1829), a composer of Lieder.
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In the 1960s, Glatzer performed as concertmaster of the Sándor Végh String Orchestra. He participated in the Prades Festival, where he worked with the legendary cellist Pablo Casals. Glatzer settled in Portugal, where he came to the attention of Maxim Jacobsen, an influential Russian violin pedagogue whose protégés included Benito Mussolini and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Jacobsen, then in his 80s, chose Glatzer as the young artist with whom he wished to share certain unpublished writings of the great 19th-century Italian virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini, which until then had been kept among Mussolini's papers.
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He appeared as the rehearsal pianist, show pit orchestra conductor, and concertmaster "Jerry" in 42nd Street (1933). Some of the same footage was used in Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)--Akst can be seen conducting the pit orchestra during the overture which preceded the final production number (All's Fair in Love and War). Harry Akst died in Hollywood, California, on March 31, 1963, at the age of 69, and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). He was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
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He served as music director of CJAY-TV, and was concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 1942 to 1957. Seaborn also holds a Public Utility Accountancy Certificate. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, defeating CCF candidate James McIsaac by 147 votes in the north-end Winnipeg riding of Wellington (incumbent Liberal-Progressive Jack St. John finished third). He was re-elected over McIsaac by 228 votes in the 1959 election, and defeated former CCF leader Lloyd Stinson by 220 votes in the 1962 campaign.
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In 1989, the ensemble returned to Orchestra Hall citing its superior acoustics. In popular music, members of the orchestra provided the recorded string accompaniments on many of Motown Records's classic hits of the 1960s, usually under the direction of the orchestra's concertmaster of the time, Gordon Staples. Two Motown albums featured the strings with the Motown rhythm section the Funk Brothers. The combined ensemble was known as the San Remo Golden Strings and enjoyed two hit singles: "Hungry for Love" (#3 Billboard Adult Contemporary) and "I'm Satisfied" (#89 U.S. Pop).
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" As a result, critics began to regard the orchestra as performing a role analogous to that of a literary narrator." As the role of the orchestra and other instrumental ensembles changed over the history of opera, so did the role of leading the musicians. In the Baroque era, the musicians were usually directed by the harpsichord player, although the French composer Lully is known to have conducted with a long staff. In the 1800s, during the Classical period, the first violinist, also known as the concertmaster, would lead the orchestra while sitting.
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Giovanni Ricordi, 1875—1853, founder of Casa Ricordi Giovanni Ricordi (1785 – 15 March 1853) was an Italian violinist and the founder of the classical music publishing company Casa Ricordi, described by musicologist Philip Gossett as "a genius and positive force in the history of Italian opera".Gossett 1996, p. 97 Ricordi was born in Milan in 1785 to Gianbatista Ricordi, who was a glassmaker, and Angiola de Medici. Ricordi studied the violin from an early age and, for a short time, became the concertmaster and conductor of the small puppet theatre Fiando.
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His formal training as a musician began as a child. He received his high school diploma from the Tchaikovsky's School of Music for the musically gifted, and earned his B.A. and Master’s from the Yerevan Conservatory named after Komitas. He was one of only fifty-four violinists worldwide to be invited to compete in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1990. This is when he decided to move to the United States and has since been named Concertmaster for the Panama National Symphony in Panama City, Panama, and for the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra.
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2 (1997): 40–43. In Western nations, some ensembles, such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, based in New York City, have had more success with conductorless orchestras, although decisions are likely to be deferred to some sense of leadership within the ensemble (for example, the principal wind and string players, notably the concertmaster). Others have returned to the tradition of a principal player, usually a violinist, being the artistic director and running rehearsal and leading concerts. Examples include the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Candida Thompson and the New Century Chamber Orchestra.
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Drdla was born in 1868 in Žďár nad Sázavou, in what is now the Czech Republic. He studied violin and composition first at the Prague Conservatory and later at the Vienna Conservatory where his teachers were Josef Hellmesberger, Jr. for violin, Anton Bruckner for music theory and Franz Krenn for composition. However, Drdla's music shows none of his teacher's influence. From 1890 to 1893 he played violin in the orchestra of the Vienna Court Opera, and from 1894 to 1899 he pursued his career as the director and concertmaster of the Theater an der Wien.
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Lebenschronik 1864-1898. M. Whittall, 1982 (translation) > So far as the form of the pieces is concerned there is little to find fault > with, but I could wish for content of greater significance before the young > composer embarks on a public career. Even so, I like the violin concerto > best, and I should be delighted if it turned out to be effective and viable > enough to banish Bruch's G minor from our concert halls. The work was dedicated to Benno Walter, the concertmaster of the Munich Court Orchestra, and also Strauss's violin teacher and relative.
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That orchestra would in turn have a chamber music connection of its own: Joseph Zoellner, who was at least for a time its concertmaster, later went on to form the Zoellner Quartet, another pioneering promoter of classical music in the United States.Gates, W. Francis ed., Who's Who in Music in California, "The Pacific Coast Musician," Los Angeles: Colby and Pryibil, 1920 In 1864, Thomas began a series of summer concerts with his orchestra, first in New York City, and later in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and eventually Chicago.
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Lenny Solomon (born 28 September 1952) is a Canadian jazz, pop, and classical violinist and composer. An active studio musician, he has performed on hundreds of recordings and soundtracks, He has also recorded two of his own jazz albums: After You've Gone and The Gershwin Sessions. He has appeared as a guest soloist with a number of orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and has served as concertmaster for a variety of theatrical entertainments. He has been awarded The Jazz Report 's annual Violinist of the Year award three times.
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Melnbārdis was born and raised in Riga, Latvia by his mother Helga Ingeborga Melnbārde accomplished artist & author. His violin studies began at the young age of five at Emīls Dārziņš Music School Conservatory of Music, Riga, Latvia (Emīla Dārziņa mūzikas vidusskola). Armand began touring internationally at the age of twelve. In 1992 after one of his solo performances in the famous Wagner Hall in Riga, he was offered to continue his education at Stetson University with world renown classical violinist Dr. Alvaro Gomez, where upon his arrival he became the concertmaster of Stetson Symphony.
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He served three seasons as bandleader of the musical company, Klaw & Erlanger, followed by a stint as concertmaster and conductor at the Century Opera. He did his first work in film when he conducted the accompaniment for Jesse L. Lasky's production of Carmen (1915). Succeeding Samuel Lionel Rothafel—later known as "Roxy" Rothafel—as conductor of the Broadway theatres the Rivoli, the Rialto, and the Criterion, he conducted from 1917 to 1925, introducing the practice of long-run resident film musicians. The cinemas were among the first, where runs of longer than a week.
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The ballad begins with Carey singing "Oh, Christmas time is in the air again" in her "whisper register", backed by a string section performed by Mike Valerio on the upright bass and George Doering playing the guitar. Other instrumentalists who performed on the bell and chime embellished track were Victor Indrizzo on the drums and Luis Conte on percussion. The orchestra was recorded and pre-mixed by John Richards and the concertmaster was Ralph Morrison; Shari Sutcliffe was enlisted as the orchestra contractor. Lyrically, the track is about falling in love during the Christmas season.
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Wertheimer was born in Satu Mare to violinist Andrei Wertheimer. He spent most of his childhood in Timișoara, where his father pioneered in jazz music within the area and was also an opera concertmaster. Wertheimer learned to play the classical violin at the age of five and began his studies at the local music school, which he was later expelled from when his family’s request to emigrate to Israel was denied. He later moved to Bucharest to continue pursuing his music studies and attend the National University of Music Bucharest.
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It took 16 years, but on May 2, 1926, the dream of a new Pittsburgh Orchestra finally became reality. The players took part in 14 unpaid rehearsals and contributed $25 each to sponsor a free public concert of the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Richard Hageman with concertmaster and associate conductor Elias Breeskin as soloist in the Bruch violin concerto.Brignano and McCullough 2011, 32. Following the newly restructured Orchestra's successful debut, the Symphony Society organized a Sunday concert series that began on April 24, 1927.
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In 1795, Veichtner left Mitau, when the Duchy of Courland was annexed by Russia, and traveled for a second time to Italy. In 1798, he found employment in Saint Petersburg where he worked as a chamber musician at the imperial court, and concertmaster of the opera orchestra. He remained in Saint Petersburg until his retirement in 1820. He returned to Mitau where he spent the final two years of his life with his eldest son, Karl Ludwig, and his family in the Forstei Kliewenhof (now the parish in Kalnciems).
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In 1962, the Lipinski Stradivarius was sold to Rosalind Elsner Anschuetz of New York City, for US$19,000. Anschuetz gave the violin to her daughter-in-law, Estonian violinist Evi Liivak, and upon her death in 1996, Liivak's husband, Richard Anschuetz, took possession of the instrument. After Anschuetz moved to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, the violin was stored in a local bank vault. Upon Anschuetz' death in February 2008, ownership of the violin passed to an anonymous family member, who lent the Lipinski to Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond.
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Jean Kurt Forest (2 April 19093 March 1975) was a German violinist and violist, Kapellmeister and composer. He began his career as concertmaster in film orchestras conducted by Paul Dessau, then played principal viola in Frankfurt and Hamburg. Drafted to the Wehrmacht in 1942, he defected to the Red Army in 1945 and remained a prisoner of war until 1948. Back in East Berlin, he shaped musical life in the GDR in several positions, before he focused on composition from 1954, composing political songs and operas raising social awareness.
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He also studied with Naoum Blinder pupil and San Francisco Symphony Concertmaster Fank Houser. Transferring to the University of California at Berkeley he studied composition with Roger Sessions before graduating in 1970. Because of student unrest at SF State and Berkeley, when his parents wanted him to return home, Chris became the Father of California Street Music in 1969 for survival. He was the first to play classical violin in the streets of San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles before anyone else and was written up in Rolling Stone Magazine as such.
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In autumn 1939, after the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine, Stefania worked as a tutor and a concertmaster at the Lviv Opera House, and from 1940 to 1941 was Associate Professor at the Lviv Conservatory. After the closure of the Conservatory, with the German occupation, she continued teaching at the State Musical School. In spring 1944 she left Lviv for Vienna. Fleeing from the Soviets, in 1946, she moved to southern Austria, and from there to Italy, where her second husband, Nartsiz Lukyanovich, was a physician under the British command.
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Prior to St. Lenox, Andrew Choi was a concert violinist, who attended the pre-college program at Juilliard School, where he was a student of Won Bin Yim and Dorothy Delay. Choi was a 1st Prize winner of the American String Teacher's Association National Solo Competition for the violin. Choi was also the concertmaster of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Choi received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a PhD from The Ohio State University and a JD from New York University.
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Left to right: Christian Cappelen, Catharinus Elling, Ole Olsen, Gerhard Rosenkrone Schelderup, Iver Holter, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Edvard Grieg, Christian Sinding, Johan Svendsen and HalvorsenNorske komponister ved Musikkfesten i Bergen, 1898, Document.dk, Retrieved 22 May 2016 Card Party in Leipzig c. 1887 showing Nina and Edvard Grieg, Johan Halvorsen, Frederick Delius, and Christian Sinding Returning to Norway in 1893, he worked as conductor of the theatre orchestra at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen and of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He became concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic in 1885, and principal conductor in 1893.
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Julius Stern later completed his formal training as a pupil of the international virtuoso Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst. After Karoline ended her performing career the two of them moved together to Berlin where according to at least one source Julius Stern became a celebrated Concertmaster. Another source refutes this, however, asserting that this version results from a misunderstanding whereby the identities and careers of two professional violinists named Julius Stern have become conflated. During her final years, living with (or close to) her son in Berlin, Karoline Stern worked as a singing teacher.
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Drigo obtained his earliest position in an opera house as a rehearsal pianist and copyist to the Garibaldi Theatre, Padua in 1866. His first major opportunity as a theatrical conductor occurred in 1867 when the Garibaldi Theatre's kapellmeister fell ill on the eve of the premiere of Costantino Dall'Argine's three act opera bouffe I Due Orsi (The Two Bears). When the concertmaster refused to conduct the performance, he recommended Drigo, if only because the rehearsal pianist would know the score intimately. Drigo's conducting was successful, and soon he was named second kapellmeister.
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During his studies in Switzerland he won prizes in two competitions, the International Competition Musica Insieme (Italy), and the Mozart International Music Festival in Terni (Italy). Most recently he graduated from the Schwob School of Music in Columbus, Georgia where he won the concerto competition in 2016. Additionally he has studied with Pavel Vernikov, Gerhard Shultz (second violinist of the Alban Berg Quartett), Bartolomiej Niziol (concertmaster of Zurich Opernhaus), Donk Suk Kang, and Gyorgy Pauk. He has recorded professionally for Bulgarian National Radio and Television among other organizations.
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François Schubert (né Franz Anton Schubert (the Younger); 22 July 1808, Dresden – 12 April 1878, Dresden) was a violinist and composer. After training with concertmaster Antonio Rolla in Dresden, Schubert studied violin with Charles Philippe Lafont in Paris and began working under the name François Schubert. He played in the Staatskapelle in Dresden from 1823 to 1873. The son of church composer Franz Anton Schubert (the Elder, 1768–1824), Schubert was married to the singer and actress Maschinka Schubert (1815–1882) who was the daughter of horn player and composer Georg Abraham Schneider.
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The Rowsby Woof Prize for Royal Academy of Music violin students, founded by his wife in 1944, was awarded annually in the years 1945 to 1963. The Prize Board listing the awardees was added to the RAM Museum's collection in 2011. Recipients include Colin Sauer (1945), Clarence Myerscough (1952), Brendan O' Reilly (1956) and John Georgiadis (1959) of the Gabrieli String Quartet, and Roy Malan (1963), founding concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Rowsby Woof is listed in the Musicians' Book of Remembrance in the Musician's Chapel at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London.
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Judith Aller is an American-born violinist, the daughter of pianist Victor Aller. Aller started taking lessons on the violin at seven, and as a teenager, she began her studies with Jascha Heifetz in his master class at the University of Southern California. After three years with Heifetz, Aller married a Finnish musician, Ilkka Talvi, and relocated to Finland, residing first in Helsinki and subsequently in Pori. She toured Europe in recital and with the Pori Symphony Orchestra, in which she performed as soloist and served as concertmaster and assistant conductor.
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (21 June 1732 - 26 January 1795) was a harpsichordist and composer, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach". Born in Leipzig in the Electorate of Saxony, he was taught music by his father, and also tutored by his distant cousin . He studied at the St. Thomas School, and some believe he studied law at the university there, but there is no record of this. In 1750, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed Johann Christoph harpsichordist at Bückeburg, and in 1759, he became concertmaster.
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The IYO was established in December 1990 by the conductor Kim Il-Jin, who gathered 42 young performers from across the country. In December 1992, the Isang Yun Music Hall, a chamber music hall, opened in the Pyongyang International House of Culture and the IYO became the orchestra-in-residence of this hall. The IYO's principal conductor is Ryong-Ung Kang and concertmaster is Cheol-Ryong Kim. They also play under Kim Byeong-hwa, Kim Ho-yun, Kim Il-jin, Kim Hong-jae and other conductors from abroad.
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The Prometheus Ensemble is a group formed to supplement the Beethoven Project Trio. The group’s size changes according to the repertoire. Regular performers have included David Taylor (Assistant Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Li-Kuo Chang (Assistant Principal Viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Patrick Jee (Acting Principal Cello of the Lyric Opera), Paula Kosower, Larry Combs (former Principal Clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Aurelien Pederzoli (Vice-President of IBP), Kenneth Olsen (Assistant Principal Cello of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Sang Mee Lee, Wendy Warner and George Lepauw.
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Harold Sumberg (August 25, 1905 - January 6, 1994) was an American-born Canadian violinist, teacher, conductor, and adjudicator.The Canadian Encyclopedia article on Harold Sumberg Born in Rochester, New York, he studied violin with Carl Markees, Henry Holst, and Willy Hess at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin (now the Berlin University of the Arts). Sumberg taught for many years at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and founded the Conservatory String Quartet in 1929. He performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as principal second violin (1931-1957) and then associate concertmaster (1961-1975).
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Adolf Franklin Rebner (also Adolph Rebner) (21 November 1876 in Vienna, Austria – 19 June 1967 in Baden-Baden, Germany) was an Austrian violinist and violist. Rebner was a student of at the Vienna Conservatory, graduating there with first prize in 1891. Having continued his studies in Paris with Martin Pierre Marsick he settled in Frankfurt in 1896 where he was concertmaster at the Frankfurt Opera. He succeeded Hugo Heermann as professor of violin at the Hoch Conservatory and became famous as leader of his string quartet, which toured Germany, France, Spain and England.
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Franz Kneisel (26 January 1865 – 26 March 1926) was an American violinist and teacher of Romanian birth. Born in Bucharest, the son of a German bandmaster, he learned to play the flute, clarinet and trumpet as well as the violin. After graduating from the Bucharest Conservatory in 1879 he went to Vienna, where he continued his studies with Jakob Grün and Joseph Hellmesberger until 1882; he made his solo début in Vienna at the end of that year. The next season, he became concertmaster at the Hoftheater, and in 1884 went to Berlin to fill the same position in the Bilsesche Kapelle.
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She completed her master's degree in violin and chamber music in Plovdiv at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts. She also received a diploma in singing from the Mokranjac Music School in Belgrade, and the School for ballet in Sofia. She has worked as a professor of violin at the music schools Josif Marinkovic and Vladimir Djordjević in Belgrade, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts. She held the position of concertmaster at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje, North Macedonia, as well as in operas houses of Varna and Plovdiv in Bulgaria.
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Subsequently, he travelled on the continent for some time, playing with great success at Vienna and elsewhere. In 1833–4 he pursued further studies in Germany with Louis Spohr in Kassel, and Bernhard Molique in Stuttgart. In 1836 he founded the Quartett Concerts in the Hanover Square Rooms, with Joseph Dando, Henry Gattie,Charles Lucas and William Sterndale Bennett and they persisted into the Victorian era, spreading chamber music as a taste. He served as concertmaster and soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Society (appointed 1834) and the orchestra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for several decades.
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Richard McMahon is an English pianist, music professor and was Head of the Keyboard department of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff until his retirement. He was the musical advisor and chair of the jury for the Newport International Piano Competition and his teaching life outside RWCMD has now taken on an international dimension involving him in examining, moderating and adjudicating as well as giving masterclasses throughout the UK and overseas. Richard McMahon also regularly partners the violinist James Clark, Concertmaster of the Philharmonia, giving recitals for BBC Radio 3 as well as performances throughout the UK.
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The Iveses heard the performance on their cook's radio and were amazed at the audience's warm reception to the music. Bernstein continued to conduct Ives's music and made a number of recordings with the Philharmonic for Columbia Records. He honored Ives on one of his televised youth concerts and in a special disc included with the reissue of the 1960 recording of the second symphony and the "Fourth of July" movement from Ives' Holiday Symphony. Another pioneering Ives recording, undertaken during the 1950s, was the first complete set of the four violin sonatas, performed by Minneapolis Symphony concertmaster Rafael Druian and John Simms.
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Vilmos Tátrai (1912-1999), Professor in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, founded the quartet in 1946 with leading members of the Budapest Capital Orchestra, later called the Hungarian State Concert Orchestra. Mihály Szűcs was concertmaster of the State Opera House, György Konrád was solo violist of the State Concert Orchestra, and Ede Banda was a professor at the Academy of Music and solo cellist of the State Concert Orchestra.Bartók Piano Quintet recording sleevenotes, Hungaroton LPX 11518 (Academie du Disque Francais Grand Prix), date not stated. The quartet won first prize at the Bartók String Quartet Competition in 1948.
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Herman demonstrated musical ability from an early age. His first public performance was in December 1874 at New York's Stadt Theatre, where he conducted an adult orchestra and cast and chorus of children in Schneewittchen, a fairy tale opera by his elder brother John C. Rietzel, who was also concertmaster. Around this same time Herman played the part of Mozart at a high society costume ball at the Academy of Music, where he played a piano solo and also accompanied children dancing to a polonaise and minuet. In July 1877, Rietzel traveled to Europe to study.
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Born in the same house in Hamburg where Felix Mendelssohn had been born the previous year, David was raised Jewish but later converted to Protestant Christianity. David was a pupil of Louis Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann from 1823 to 1824 and in 1826 became a violinist at Königstädtischen Theater in Berlin. In 1829 he was the first violinist of Baron Carl Gotthard von Liphardt's (father of Karl Eduard von Liphart) string quartet in Dorpat and he undertook concert tours in Riga, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. In 1835 he became concertmaster (Konzertmeister) at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig working with Mendelssohn.
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In Baroque music from the 1600s to the 1750s, conductors performing in the 2010s may lead an ensemble while playing a harpsichord or the violin (see Concertmaster). Conducting while playing a piano may also be done with musical theatre pit orchestras. Communication is typically non-verbal during a performance (this is strictly the case in art music, but in jazz big bands or large pop ensembles, there may be occasional spoken instructions). However, in rehearsals, the conductor will often give verbal instructions to the ensemble, since they generally also serve as an artistic director who crafts the ensemble's interpretation of the music.
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Claude Chalhoub () born in Qaa, Lebanon in 1974, from a Christian musical family of 11 children, attended the Lebanese Conservatoire before entering the Royal College of Music in London as winner of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Scholarship award. He is fluent in Classical Western music and Arabic improvisation, and was concertmaster for Daniel Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’ (1999- 2002). Furthermore, he was invited by Yo-Yo Ma to Tanglewood/USA to support him in his Silk Road Project. His debut release on Teldec Classics International called Claude Chalhoub is the result of an exclusive recording contract with Canadian producer Michael Brook.
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Even though it was not his favorite thing to do, Choi does admit that it was nice when he got to leave class twice a week to attend his orchestra class. Choi says that class was easier for him than it was for some of the other kids because he had already covered some of the material through his private lessons. The unlikely musician thus became the concertmaster of his school orchestra. He would play classical and jazz music, and never being exposed a pop song until sixth grade, when he heard Smash Mouth's "All Star".
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During this tour Sahla wrote his Rumänische Rhapsodie, which he dedicated to his friend Princess Amalie Hügel-Teck, daughter of the Duke of Würtemberg and niece of Queen Victoria. From 1882 to early 1888 Richard Sahla was First Concertmaster and first solo-violinist at the Royal Opera in Hanover, where he struck up many friendships. Amongst these were the Liszt pupil Ingeborg von Bronsart, an internationally acclaimed pianist and composer as well as her husband Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, director of the Royal Theatre in Hanover between 1867 and 1887. Sahla published a Ballad for violin and piano dedicated to Ingeborg von Bonsart.
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As a soloist, Kang has performed with orchestras throughout Canada (including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra) and the United States (including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony). She has also performed internationally with the Orchestre National de France, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1999, Kang joined the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra as principal second violin. She then held a first violin position with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 2001 to 2003, then was assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 2003.
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In classical music, each instrument or vocal type has a standard repertoire of music which is commonly requested at auditions. Instrumentalists in an orchestral context are typically asked to perform excerpts from the orchestral literature, including both exposed solos and "tutti" parts which are particularly demanding. Orchestral auditions are typically held in front of a panel that includes the conductor, the Concertmaster, and a number of Principal players from the orchestra. In the United States since WWII, professional orchestra auditions often include a musician's union representative, who ensures that the audition is being run in a fair manner.
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Arvinder began his career as a violinist and was a member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2012. He has served as concertmaster for multiple Nordic ensembles and is one of the founding members of the Vamlingbo Quartet. Between 2011 and 2013, Arvinder toured as a multi-instrumentalist with Childish Gambino playing violin, keyboard and percussion during the I Am Donald and Camp tours. In 2014, Arvinder toured as a violinist with John Legend during the All Of Me tour, Arvinder has worked as an arranger for multiple international music artists, including Avicii and Childish Gambino.
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After World War 2, Henryk continued violin classes with priest Sobieraj, and soon he got a scholarship of the State of Poland to study in Conservatory of the State School of Music of Kraków where he initiated classes with the concertmaster of the Radio and Televisión Orchestra of Poland in Kraków, the master Adam Wiernik. In 1953 he began to play as first violin in the Radio and Televisión Orchestra of Poland where he worked by 11 years. In 1954 he was heard by the known professor Zenon Felinski, who accepted him as his student. Henryk had 7 years of classes with him.
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He studied conducting with Robert Page, the chorus's Director and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University where Meena received his Master of Fine Arts in conducting in 1978. When Page became Director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh in September 1979, he hired Meena as his assistant. He also studied conducting with Thomas Mihalak, who was Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony for six seasons; the opera conductor Rudolph Fellner; and Boris Halip, a former associate concertmaster and conductor of the Bolshoi Ballet who had emigrated to Cleveland and with whom Meena also studied violin.Opera Carolina.
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In March 1825, Mendelssohn's father agreed to allow Felix to pursue a career in music, but only if his potential was recognized by professional musicians. Felix brought his Piano Quartet in B minor to the Paris Conservatory, where it was played by director Luigi Cherubini, and by the concertmaster of the Paris Opera, Pierre Baillot. According to Mendelssohn, the musicians were at first careless, but became enthusiastic early in the first movement and, at a terrific speed, played the entire quartet to its conclusion. Baillot approached the young composer after the performance and, without uttering a word, simply embraced him.
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When dysentery broke out in Zweibrücken in the autumn of 1763, Christian IV fled with his family to the new palace, work on which was not yet finished. Repeatedly it was the starting point for coursing hunts. Here, too, arose the court chapel with works by concertmaster Ernst Eicher, and court painter Mannlich also worked here. Schloß Pettersheim became such a favourite second home for the Duke, alongside Schloß Jägersburg, that even his favourite nephew, Prince Maximilian Joseph, later the first King of Bavaria (as Maximilian I Joseph), who was brought up at his uncle's court, spent part of his youth in Pettersheim.
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At the age of ten, he performed with the Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra the Violin Concert No. 22 by Gioivanni Viotti. At the age of fourteen Boriso-Glebsky graduated to the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory to the violin division by Professor Eduard Grach and Associate Professor Tatiana Berkul. When he was studying at the conservatory, he took part in the Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourses in Israel, under the guidance of Ida Haendel and Shlomo Mintz. Furthermore, the young violinist had started playing in the Moscovia Chamber Orchestra and consequently passed all stages up to the concertmaster position.
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Bill Richards (28 March 1923 – 28 February 1995) was a Canadian violinist, composer, arranger, and editor. His compositional output includes several film scores, a Flute Quartet (1964), and a number of fiddle tunes. He recorded two of his own fiddle compositions for Spiral Records in 1957 and another of his fiddle compositions was featured in the movie The Pyx. He also was active as a musician and concertmaster on a number of studio recordings from the 1950s through the 1990s, and can be heard on recordings by artists Moe Koffman, Catherine McKinnon, Anne Murray,Report on Business Magazine. Vol.
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She commenced artistic study with Ivan Galamian, widely regarded among violinists as the greatest pedagogical influence of the latter half of the twentieth century. She performed frequently in master classes with the Romanian violinist George Enescu, and often traveled to Boston to play new works for the composition studio of Nadia Boulanger. In 1947, Lack was selected to be the first concertmaster of the prestigious Little Orchestra Society of New York, a position she held for two seasons. That year, Lack began performing solos weekly that were broadcast to a national audience over the Mutual radio network.
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He premiered and made the first recordings of a number of modern works including symphonies by Allan Pettersson, who dedicated his Symphony No. 9 to him, as well as works by Michael Jeffrey Shapiro and Elie Siegmeister. Comissiona conducted Siegmeister's An Entertainment for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra at the Merriwether Post Pavilion on July 2, 1976 with Ann Saslav, piano, and Isidor Saslav, the BSO's concertmaster, as soloists. The Saslavs had commissioned the work from Siegmeister. In 1968, Comissiona conducted the first performance of Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres in 46 years (since 1922), which ignited a renaissance for Langgaard's music.
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He was also a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and appeared as a soloist with the BSO on a number of occasions. His 18 February 1882 performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and 15 December 1883 performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso were some of the earliest appearances of a Canadian musician with a major symphony orchestra in the United States. He also toured the United States several times BSO and served as the concertmaster of the Boston Philharmonic. De Sève returned to Saint- Henri in 1899 to join the music faculty at McGill University.
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On Yankelevich's graduation composer Alexander Glazunov commented: "a career of a virtuoso violinist would certainly be his calling". In 1932 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under professor Abram Yampolsky, and finished his doctorate degree in 1937. Between 1930 and 1937 he was an assistant concertmaster in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and afterwards concentrated primarily on pedagogical activities. Since 1934 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory School, the Moscow Conservatory College, and at the Moscow Conservatory senior division (first as Yampolsky's assistant, and later leading his own studio, eventually becoming a head of the violin department).
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Gaigerova studied composition under Georgy Catoire and Nikolai Myaskovsky and piano under Heinrich Neuhaus at Moscow Conservatory, where she graduated in 1927. At the Bolshoi Theatre she worked as "concertmistress"In Russian, unlike in English, the term "concertmaster" may also denote an assistant to the principal conductor, who collaborates in preparing an opera production and conducts subsequent performances, equivalent to a répétiteur or Kapellmeister from 1936 to 1944. Gaigerova was interested in the musical folklore of the southeastern people of Soviet Russia. In her compositions she uses folk music of various regions like Kalmykia, Buryatia, Kazakhstan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan.
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Eric Rosenblith (December 11, 1920 – December 16, 2010) was an Austrian-born American violinist. He was the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, and had performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Rosenblith served as chairman of the New England Conservatory's string department for more than twenty-five years and was a faculty member of the Hartt School as well as the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. He was a visiting professor at the University of Kansas. Rosenblith received the Licence de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.
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Meg Okura (大倉恵, born in Tokyo, Japan), started studying music at Toho Gakuen School of Music at five. As a child, she served as a church pianist and organist at an Evangelical church in her home town of Ome. In the early 1990s, Meg Okura toured Asia as the concertmaster and soloist of the Asian Youth Orchestra. In 1992, she made her U.S. solo debut with the late Alexander Schneider and the New York String Orchestra at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. She has earned bachelor's and master's degrees from The Juilliard School as a classical violinist.
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Gordon Staples was an American violinist and past concertmaster for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He was known for his work as a leader and conductor of the string section on recording sessions for Motown Records during their heyday in the 1960s. Although not having attained the same level of fame as the label's better-known singers, his work on hundreds of Motown hit records has therefore been heard by millions of people all around the world. He released a Motown album of his own in 1970 with members of The Funk Brothers, Strung Out, credited to Gordon Staples and the String Thing.
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Accessed June 2014. Nadien won the prestigious Leventritt Award, judged by a panel that included Arturo Toscanini, at 20. Afterwards, he worked mainly as a freelance studio musician until in 1966 he was invited to audition and eventually selected by Leonard Bernstein to replace the retiring John Corigliano Sr., the father of the composer, as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Although he had little experience of orchestral playing, Bernstein praised his unusually acute sight-reading skills and called him "an extraordinary violinist", and he had previously received an offer from George Szell to be principal second violin of the Cleveland Orchestra.
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His solo debut as a violinist took place during November 1933 in the Ceremony Hall of the University of Oslo (Universitetets Aula). In 1938, he was appointed concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed for two years. During World War II, he taught at the Barratt Dues Music Institute which had been founded and was operated by his wife's parents, Mary Louise Barratt Due (1888–1969) and Henrik Adam Due (1891-1966).Mary Barratt Due / utdypning (Store norske leksikon) On 20 February 1944, Flame was aboard the ferry D/F Hydro when it was sunk in a commando operation.
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He became the concertmaster within five days of joining and soon became one of the conductors of this group. Ormandy also made 16 recordings as a violinist between 1923 and 1929, half of them using the acoustic process. Arthur Judson, the most powerful manager of American classical music during the 1930s, first heard Ormandy when he conducted (as a freelancer) for a dance recital at Carnegie Hall by Isadora Duncan; Judson later said, "I came to see a dancer and instead heard a conductor".Herbert Kupferberg, liner notes for a 1981 recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony no.
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Galamian had misgivings about accepting a 24-year-old student, but wanted to help a war veteran. From there, his life as a musician started to blossom, even drawing the attention of Igor Stravinsky with his performance of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. He became well known for his attention given to modern composers, and notably worked closely on many pieces with John Cage. As of the 1950s, Cohen was serving as the concertmaster of the orchestras at the Casals festivals in France and Puerto Rico, in addition to several ensembles in New York City including the Colombia symphony orchestra.
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His active solo career includes engagements throughout North, South America and Europe and participation at international music festivals in Tanglewood, Freiburg, Taormina, etc. He won a number of violin competitions and has recorded for RAI and Bloomington Radio Station. He has served as guest concertmaster with many orchestras including OSESP Brazil, (1999-2003), Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Bellini di Catania (1990), Orchestra Internazionale D'Italia, and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. Among Master classes conducted by Greco were Drew University in New Jersey (1999-2000), Maracaibo Conservatory in Venezuela (2005) and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Santa Severina, Italy (2013).
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ' (Come, you sweet hour of death), 161', in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity, probably first performed on 27 September 1716. Bach had taken up regular cantata composition two years before when he was promoted to concertmaster at the Weimar court, writing one cantata per month to be performed in the , the court chapel in the ducal Schloss. The text of , and of most other cantatas written in Weimar, was provided by court poet Salomon Franck. He based it on the prescribed gospel reading about the young man from Nain.
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Longing to return, the musicians appealed to their Kapellmeister for help. The diplomatic Haydn, instead of making a direct appeal, put his request into the music of the symphony: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and his concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the performance.Ethan Mordden, A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Handbook for Non-Musicians.
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Rainer Küchl is an Austrian violinist who was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, in August 1950. He started to play the violin at the age of 11, and was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, at the age of 14, where he studied with Franz Samohyl. At the age of 20 he became concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist he has worked with some of the world's most famous orchestras and conductors, such as Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, and Simon Rattle.
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In addition to his music scoring career, Rosner continues to enjoy writing classical music. His most recent recording, released on Bridge Records, is the album, Awake and Dream, featuring Soprano Janai Brugger, violinist Katia Popov (concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), pianist Steven Vanhauwaert, The Hollywood Studio Symphony with Rosner as composer, conductor and pianist., Also released is In Time of Silver Rain, Seven Poems by Langston Hughes, also features Janai Brugger and Rosner on piano. Rosner’s classical works have been performed live in concert by the Armadillo String Quartet, the Pacific composers forum and most recently by the Kaleidoscope Orchestra.
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Giuseppe Verdi conducting his opera Aida in 1881 By the early 19th century (ca. 1820), it became the norm to have a dedicated conductor, who did not also play an instrument during the performance. While some orchestras protested the introduction of the conductor, since they were used to having a concertmaster or keyboard player act as leader, eventually the role of a conductor was established. The size of the usual orchestra expanded during this period, and the use of a baton became more common, as it was easier to see than bare hands or rolled-up paper.
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Jang was born to South Korean parents in Grenoble where by the age of five he began his first violin lessons with Flora Elphege and then continued it with Gerard Poulet at the Conservatoire de Paris. He was fascinated with Detroit and Argentinian music especially Astor Piazzolla and his tangos. Currently he is a concertmaster of both the Britt Festival and Honolulu Symphony Orchestra as well as a teacher at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. In 1989 he became a prize winner at both the Rodolfo Lipizer and Lion's Club's violin competitions and Eastern Music Festival.
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When he graduated from Idyllwild, he became an attendee of the Eastman School of Music where he got his bachelor's degree in violin after studying it with Zvi Zeitlin on full scholarship. During his time in Eastman, he performed on Antonio Stradivari of 1714. Since moving to California, he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Opera and Master Chorale, Ensemble San Francisco and as concertmaster with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. Simeonov obtained his Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, and following it completed his Masters in Music with Ani Kavafian at the same place.
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Armen held Principal and Concertmaster positions in several orchestras in the U.S.A. and in South America. In 2002, Armen moved to Los Angeles where he worked with Los Angeles Opera and major motion picture studios such as Warner Bros, Sony/MGM, Paramount, Universal, NBC etc., scoring for more than 120 films and followed his debut in Yanni World Tour 2003. In 2010, Armen introduced a new show to his audience under the name of Forbidden Saints with a sold-out performance at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium followed by the release of a new album Forbidden Saints Live in 2011.
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He started working as a substitute for his father as an organist in Storkyrkan, the main church of Stockholm, and from 1753 was permanently employed there. His father also helped him secure a position as a musician at the royal court, and he eventually rose to the position of chief conductor at Kungliga Hovkapellet and concertmaster, but this work was largely without a salary. Only from 1758 did he receive payment for his services to the court. The same year he became a member of the Freemasons and in 1763 he joined (The Worshipful Company of Carpenters).
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McCallum was born September 19, 1933, in Maryhill, Glasgow, the second of two sons of orchestral violinist David McCallum Sr. and Dorothy (née Dorman), a cellist. When he was three, his family moved to London for his father to play as concertmaster in the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War, he was evacuated back to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond. McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboe.
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In 1957 the San Diego Symphony performed his original composition: "18th Century", and the following year, in 1958, the San Diego Symphony orchestra debuted his original composition "Gigue". His senior year at Point Loma High School, he was selected to be the Concertmaster of the San Diego All City's High School Orchestra in 1964. Reutinger won a full scholarship to San Francisco State University to be part of the school's flagship music ensemble The Morrison Quartet. The quartet appeared on San Francisco local KPIX CBS every Sunday in the show: "Molnar on Music" hosted by the renowned violist Frenrick Molnar.
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For many years, very little interest in performance of Three Places was aroused by its publication. After Slonimsky's retirement from conducting, the piece lay dormant until 1948, when longtime BSO concertmaster Richard Burgin programmed it on a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. The current practice of performing Ives' chamber scores rescored for full orchestra was thus established. In the 1970s, interest in Three Places in New England was piqued once again, this time regarding the differences between the original 1914 scoring, much of which had been lost, and the 1929 chamber- orchestra rescoring for Slonimsky's chamber orchestra.
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Basia Danilow (born January 23 in Brooklyn, New York) is a diverse violinist who engages in chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances. She has appeared in recital at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and the Kosciuszko Foundation as well as in Yugoslavia and Russia. Basia is concertmaster of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, a regular with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has recorded for the Sony, Atlantic, RCA Victor Red Seal and Bridge labels and her radio and television broadcasts include WQXR, NPR's Performance Today, Vermont Public Radio and PBS.
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Formed in 1978, the Laclede String Quartet (better known as the Laclede Quartet) is an all-female string quartet that plays popular as well as classical music. The Laclede Quartet was founded by violinist Sallie Coffman (now also concertmaster for the St. Louis Muny orchestra), and is from the Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, and Illinois area. Especially their popular music performances and CDs have resonated with audiences: their second album featured music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and was their biggest success to that date, 1992. Through the help of Hillary Clinton their fame has spread to the Middle East.
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Born in Reichenberg, Tschechoslowakei, Suske received violin lessons in early childhood from his father, Franz Suske, who played second violins in the municipal orchestra of Reichenberg. After the end of the Second World War and expulsion from the Sudetenland the family settled in Greiz (Thuringia), where Suske resumed his violin lessons. In 1947 he became a pupil of the Weimar university teacher and violinist Gerhard Bosse, who grew up in Greiz. After the latter's move in 1951 he followed him to Leipzig, where Bosse worked as a violin professor and first concertmaster of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Most of his compositive output dates after his return to Italy, and only a handful compositions of doubtful attribution date back to his permanence in Germany. His main genre was ballet, nevertheless it is hard to formulate a judgment on the quality of his production, since most of his music did not survive and few critic judgments from his era are known. Between 1775 and 1777 he wrote six ballets, and in 1778 two ballets for the Teatro Comunale in Florence and one opera for Stuttgart. In 1779 he became concertmaster and director at Teatro alla Scala, position he maintained for 23 years.
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It was premiered on March 2, 1795 as part of a concert series called the "Opera Concerts" at the King's Theatre. The orchestra was unusually large for the time, consisting of about 60 players. The task of directing the work was divided between the concertmaster, the violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Haydn, who sat at a fortepiano. The premiere was evidently a success, and The Morning Chronicle's reviewer wrote: The Sun wrote: Haydn later performed the work in Vienna, and for this purpose made a small cut in the final movement, which is usually respected by conductors today.
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Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity as the first cantata of his third cantata cycle, being the first new composition in his third year as ' in Leipzig. The libretto is by Salomon Franck who was a court poet in Weimar. Bach had often set Franck's texts when he was Konzertmeister (concertmaster) there from 1714 to 1717. Franck published the text of in 1715 as part of the collection , and Bach would probably have used at the time had it not been for a period of mourning for Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.
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Egon Ledeč (Kostelec nad Orlicí 16 March 1889 - Auschwitz, October 1944) was a Czech violinist and composer of Jewish origin. Ledeč was one of the artists sent to Theresienstadt and is shown as concertmaster in Karel Ančerl’s orchestra in the Nazi propaganda movie Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area. He was transported to Auschwitz on 16 October 1944 together with Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Rafael Schächter, and Franz Eugen Klein, apart from Gideon Klein the other four musicians were murdered immediately on arrival.Biography Gideon Klein died in the liquidation of the Fürstengrube camp in January 1945.
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The current concertmaster is Jason Posnock, who is also Associate Artistic Administrator (and violin faculty) at the Brevard Music Center. In 2012, the Asheville Symphony hosted the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, marking CIM Orchestra's first performance outside the state of Ohio. Other notable musicians who have appeared with the orchestra include Emanuel Ax, Midori, David Finckel, Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Koh, Benjamin Hochman, Daniil Trifonov, Zuill Bailey and many others.(14 February 1986) "Finckel performs with symphony"The Hendersonville Times-News In 2005 the Symphony received a major grant from the Janirve Foundation (established by Irving Jacob Reuter).
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Backstage at Constitution Hall rehearsal, 1959. Andrés Archila (December 24, 1913 – March 2, 2002) was a Guatemalan international violinist and orchestra conductor. He was the principal founder and conductor of the Guatemalan National Symphony Orchestra from 1944 to 1964, founder of the Quarteto Guatemala, Associate Concertmaster of Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1984, and soloist and conductor with major orchestras of the Americas during his lifetime. Maestro Archila was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on December 24, 1913, and he died in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2002, and is interred in his beloved Guatemala.
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In a 1983 concert, he played the Proms premiere of Alfred Schnittke's Violin Concerto No. 3, conducted by Edward Downes. He was Concertmaster of the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra from 1955, the London Symphony Orchestra from 1962 to 1965, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1972 to 1975. In addition, he was first violin with the London String Quartet (a later ensemble than the London Quartet), and he played chamber music on numerous occasions. Gruenberg taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1982 and at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1989, continuing to teach to age 95.
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ''''' (Prepare the paths, prepare the road), in Weimar in 1715 for the fourth Sunday of Advent and led the first performance on 22 December 1715. Bach had taken up regular cantata composition a year before when he was promoted to concertmaster at the Weimar court, writing one cantata per month to be performed in the ', the court chapel in the ducal Schloss. ' was his first cantata for the fourth Sunday in Advent. The libretto by the court poet Salomo Franck is related to the day's prescribed gospel reading, the testimony of John the Baptist.
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From 2001 until 2002 he was in residence of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, by a scholarship of the Bavarian government. At the meantime he was an active violinist, playing in several orchestras, among them the Russian chamber-philharmonics Saint Petersburg and –as a concertmaster- at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Since 2001 Ewert stayed often in Argentina, where he worked together with Oscar Nicolas Fresedo and others, performances of his tangos established him in Buenos Aires. 2006 - 2008 he attended the courses for composition of José Manuel López López, since 2008 he also studies with Walter Zimmermann.
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Haydn completed the symphony in 1793 or 1794. He wrote it for the second of his two visits to London. Having heard one of his symphonies played in London with an orchestra of 300-strong, his Clock Symphony has that large scale grandeur written in it. On 3 March 1794, the work was premiered with an orchestra of 60 personally gathered by Haydn's colleague and friend Johann Peter Salomon, who also acted as concertmaster, in the Hanover Square Rooms, as part of a concert series featuring Haydn's work organized by Salomon; a second performance took place a week later.
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Amy Schwartz Moretti is an American violinist, currently the Caroline Paul King Chair in Strings at Mercer University's Townsend School of Music. She studied in the pre-college program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, who awarded her their Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, who awarded her an Alumni Achievement Award in 2005. She has been concertmaster at The Florida Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony and in 2007 became the first director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at the Townsend School of Music.
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