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David Grimal pursues an international career as a solo violinist, which has seen him performing regularly over the past twenty years in the world's leading classical music venues and with prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Berliner Symphoniker, New ...
In 1903, Elman began to play concerts in the homes of wealthy patrons of the arts, and he made his Berlin debut in 1904, creating a great sensation. His London debut in 1905 included the British premiere of Alexander Glazunov's Violin Concerto in A minor. He played in Carnegie Hall in 1908, making a great impression on his American audience. He ...
A year later, he took part in a competition and won first prize. By the age of seven, he studied violin at the Lübeck Conservatoire . [ 1 ] When he was nine years old he gave his debut at the Festival Kissinger Sommer , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and by the age of 12, Garrett began working with the distinguished Polish violinist Ida Haendel , often traveling ...
[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]
Rieu created the Johann Strauss Orchestra in 1987 and began with 12 members, giving its first concert on 1 January 1988. [7] As of 2020, he performs with between 50 and 60 musicians. Rieu plays a 1667 Stradivarius violin. [3] Rieu and his orchestra have appeared throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, and Australia, and New Zealand.
In 1947 he made only the third recording of the work, after its dedicatee David Oistrakh in 1944 and Louis Kaufman in 1946. [1] Wolfgang Fortner dedicated his Violin Concerto to Gerhard Taschner. [2] He premiered it in 1947 and went on to become its greatest champion. [citation needed] Fortner also dedicated his Violin Sonata to Taschner. [4]
Lindsey Stirling (violin pop, electro, dance-pop) Dinesh Subasinghe (pop, Music of Sri Lanka, Baila, Celtic, Chinese, Buddhist music, rock, folk) Alicia Svigals (klezmer) Dave Swarbrick (British/Celtic folk and folk/rock) Sam Sweeney (British/Celtic folk and folk/rock – Kerfuffle, Bellowhead, Leveret, Made in the Great War [4])
About the event, she says: "During the first hour I couldn't play anything I wanted, because during the days of Mozart the violins were a lot shorter and I wasn't used to that". 2006: "BBC Music Magazine Awards 2006 Best Newcomer" for the CD Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001–1006).