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Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she started violin lessons at 5 years old.At the age of 10, she moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School at the invitation of the pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. [2]
Gil Shaham (Hebrew: גיל שחם; born February 19, 1971) is an American violinist.His accolades include a Grammy Award in 1999, and he has performed as a soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, Academy ...
[6] The five-year-old punched her in the stomach as hard as he could. [6] He said years later: "Fortunately, she was in a good mood that day, and she accepted me as a student." [6] Lessons went badly at first. [7] [8] Turchaninova was very strict. [7] [8] At one point, Vengerov stubbornly refused to play for her for five straight lessons.
Richard Leo Tognetti AO (born 4 August 1965) is a leading Australian musician recognised internationally as a violin soloist, ensemble player, leader, composer and arranger, conductor and artistic director.
Chloe Chua (蔡珂宜; Cài Kēyí) (born 7 January 2007) [1] is a Singaporean violinist. She is the first prize winner in the Junior division of the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists alongside Christian Li, [2] [3] and also the winner of the 24th Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Category A. [4] She is currently the Artist-In-Residence of ...
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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.
In 2014 she gave the world premiere of the concerto Duende written for her by Francesconi, for which he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. In 2015 she gave the world premiere of the concerto Scheherazade.2, written for her by John Adams, with the New York Philharmonic. [7] Josefowicz received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1994. [8]