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His daughter Liza was an accomplished violinist who played a Guarnerius made in Cremona in 1742. Sivori (Paganini's only pupil) proclaimed it to be "the finest toned violin in the world." [citation needed] He was much better known, however, in his own time under his pseudonym, James McGovan (or James M'Govan), a writer of police detective ...
Carlo Maria Giulini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo maˈriːa dʒuˈliːni]; 9 May 1914 – 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor.From the age of five, when he began to play the violin, Giulini's musical education was expanded when he began to study at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome at the age of 16.
[1] [2] Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today. [3] Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played. [3] [4] [5] Many of the surviving instruments were among a consignment of 38 instruments delivered to Charles IX of France in 1574. [6]
Ed Alleyne-Johnson (born 1959) is a British electric violinist and busker.He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin he carved with a kitchen knife, [1] a custom pedalboard and portable amplifier.
In December 2023 he was invited to take part in the Bilibili New Year's Eve Gala, a show produced by Bilibili, a Chinese online video platform. [9] He performed the main theme from the Pirates of The Caribbean soundtrack together with Erhu player Eliott Tordo. The gala was released on December 31, 2023 and within 24 hours of publication, it ...
He made his first public appearance at the age of five playing Mozart's Sonata K. 331. Charly García: 1951 Piano 5 Gave his first public recital at age five, became a music professor at age twelve. Elsie Hall: 1877 Piano 6 Prize winner, New South Wales 1883. "The Antipodean Phenomenon", Europe 1880s. Clara Haskil: 1895 Piano 5
In 2008, Chen won the First Prize in the senior division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in Cardiff, Wales. [9] At the competition, he came to the attention of jury member Maxim Vengerov, who engaged him for debuts with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra [10] and the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra at the International Rostropovich Festival in Baku. [11]
Gingger Shankar (10-string double violin, of The Smashing Pumpkins) John Sheahan (The Dubliners, folk) Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant) Rosemary Siemens (gospel, classical, pop, bluegrass) Antoine Silverman (bluegrass, jazz) Kyla-Rose Smith (Afropop, hip hop) Sophie Solomon (Oi Va Voi, klezmer, folk, rock) Eric Stanley (hip hop, pop, classical) Robby ...