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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.
Moses or Moishe Elman [5] was born to a Jewish family in Talnoye, Umansky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (today Talne, Ukraine). [4]His grandfather Yosele Elman was a klezmer, a Jewish professional traditional musician who played the violin, and his father Saul Iosipovich Elman was a melamed and amateur violinist.
Garrett received his first Stradivarius violin at the age of 11, courtesy of German president Richard von Weizsäcker, after having performed for him. [9] At the age of 13, Garrett recorded two CDs, appeared on German and Dutch television, [10] and gave a concert in the residence of the President of Germany, the Villa Hammerschmidt. [11]
A violin prodigy, he gave his first recital at age 10. Together with his elder brother Jacob "Jascha" [ 2 ] (1896–1970), a renowned concert pianist, Tossy made his first European concert tour at age 13, performing as soloist with orchestras in a number of countries including Holland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, in 1919, where the ...
Born in the United States and raised in Europe, Yoo began playing the violin at the age of 4 and made her concert debut aged 8. She attended the International School of Brussels, prior to becoming a student of Ana Chumachenco in the Excellence Bachelor Programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Augustin Dumay in the Artist Diploma Programme at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel ...
A SpaceX astronaut has helped take music to new heights, recording a very special song in space to support kids in need. The Polaris Program said it has teamed up with St. Jude Children’s ...
[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]
The origin of the violin family is unclear. [1] [2] Some say that the bow was introduced to Europe from the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, [3] [4] [5] while others say the bow was not introduced from the Middle East but the other way around, and that the bow may have originated from more frequent contact between Northern and Western Europe.