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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 ...
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]
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.
[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]
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 ...
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])
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 ...
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.