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  2. David Grimal - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Szymon Goldberg - Wikipedia

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    His first teacher was Henryk Czaplinski, a student of the great Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík; his second was Mieczysław Michałowicz, a student of Leopold Auer. [1] In 1917, at age eight, Goldberg moved to Berlin to study the violin with the legendary pedagogue Carl Flesch. He was also a student of Josef Wolfsthal.

  4. Mischa Elman - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. David Garrett - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Andrea Amati - Wikipedia

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    [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]

  7. Julia Fischer - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Ed Alleyne-Johnson - Wikipedia

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    He partially improvised on this track and also played violin on two others. Vagabonds was released as a single in the UK and Alleyne-Johnson was invited to join the band and tour with them, playing violin and keyboards. As a member of the band he played on 5 albums (three studio and two live) released in the UK between 1989 and 1995.

  9. Carl Nielsen - Wikipedia

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    At first, Nielsen's works did not gain sufficient recognition for him to be able to support himself. During the concert which saw the premiere of his First Symphony on 14 March 1894 conducted by Svendsen, Nielsen played in the second violin section. The symphony was a great success when played in Berlin in 1896, contributing significantly to ...