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[1] [2] Briggs was the head of her class orchestra as a teenager and performed at a competition at Woodrow Wilson High School . She also played alongside her father and his colleagues, and at their encouragement she made the decision at age 15 to become a professional jazz violinist . [ 1 ]
Anna Phoebe was born in Hamburg, West Germany, to a Greek-Irish historian father and a German children's social worker mother. [4] A native German speaker, she learnt English upon moving to Manchester, England at the age of four. [4] After a period living in Michigan in the United States, Phoebe and her family settled in St Andrews, Scotland. [4]
The Female Lead is an educational charity launched in 2015. It is dedicated to increasing the visibility of women's success stories in all walks of life and offering girls a wider selection of role models than those represented in popular culture.
Pupil of Jenő Hubay, 1908 / Sister of violinist Adila Fachiri, niece of Joseph Joachim / Owned the "Lord Dunn-Raven" Stradivari, 1710 / Dedicatee of Béla Bartók's Violin Sonatas No.1 Sz.75 (1921) & No.2 Sz.76 (1922), Maurice Ravel's Tzigane (1924) and, with her sister Adila Fachiri, of Gustav Holst's Double Concerto for 2 Violins Op.49 (1929)
Shinichi Suzuki was born on October 17, 1898, in Nagoya, Japan, as one of twelve children.His father, Masakichi Suzuki, was originally a maker of traditional Japanese string instruments but in 1880, he became interested in violins and by Shinichi's birth he had developed the first Japanese violin factory (now Suzuki Violin Co., Ltd.), at that time the largest such factory in the world.
She also took on the role of soloist in the violin concertos of György Ligeti and Per Nørgård, both of which were recorded. [ 1 ] While she has maintained her position with the National Symphony Orchestra, she has also been a guest soloist with all the leading Scandinavian orchestras, performing not only in the classical concertos of ...
Josephine Augusta Trott (December 24, 1874 - March 2, 1950) was an American author, composer, and music educator who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Colin Shepherd. [1] Her violin pedagogy books are still in use today. [2] Trott was born in Wilmington, Illinois, to Dr. Stenson E. and Augusta J. Trott. [3]