Robert Mann

male, 89 years old
Juilliard School faculty, Classical violinist, Juilliard School of Music alumni, Naumburg Competition, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Walter W. NaumburgFoundation
Founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 52 years, American Robert Mann (1920-) is also a composer, conductor and...
Frank Huang

Frank Huang

male, 31 years old
Chinese American, Naumburg Competition, Walter W. NaumburgFoundation, From Beijing, Juilliard School of Music alumni, chinese
Frank Xin Huang (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese-born American violinist. He has won several international music competitions, most notably...
Joan Tower

Joan Tower

female, 71 years old
composer, Classical composer, fanfare for the common man, Petroushskates, Naumburg Award, Grawemeyer Award…Walter W. NaumburgFoundation
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938 in New Rochelle, New York) is a contemporary American composer. She became known for her first orchestral...
Stephen Hough

Stephen Hough

male, 48 years old
From heswall, Juilliard School of Music alumni, rhapsody on a theme of paganini, Malaysian Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony…Naumburg International Piano Competition, Walter W. NaumburgFoundation
Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist and composer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005. Hough was born in...
William Kapell

William Kapell

male, deceased (1953)
Walter W. NaumburgFoundation, José Iturbi, Classical musician, pianist, Classical pianist, philadelphia orchestra
William Kapell was an American pianist. The critic Harold Schonberg once considered Kapell the most promising American pianist of the post-World...
Margaret Baxtresser

Margaret Baxtresser

female, deceased (2005)
pianist, professor emeritus, vietnam war, kent state university, Classical musician, akron…Walter W. NaumburgFoundation
Margaret Baxtresser, (June 10, 1922-June 7, 2005) was an internationally renowned American concert pianist. She was born and raised in Detroit,...
Louis Kaufman

Louis Kaufman

male, deceased (1994)
Juilliard School of Music alumni, violinist, Classical violinist, gone with the wind, Casablanca, the merry widow…Walter W. NaumburgFoundation, Naumburg Award
Louis Kaufman (May 10, 1905, Portland, Oregon - February 9, 1994, Los Angeles, California) was an American violinist and possibly the most recorded...
Yehonatan Berick

Yehonatan Berick

male, 41 years old
School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Israeli classical violist, American classical violist, virtuoso, Helicon, Walter W. NaumburgFoundation
Yehonatan Berick (born 1968) is a violin and viola virtuoso and pedagogue. Born in Israel, he started his musical education at the age of six. His...