- Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari (1644 - December 18, 1737) was an Italian "luthier", a crafter of stringed instruments such as violins, celli, guitars and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, "Stradivarius", as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is often used to refer to his instruments. - Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor. He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting. Accardo was born in northern Italy and studied violin in the southern Italian city of Naples in the 1950s. He gave his first professional recital at the age of 13 performing Paganini's "Capricci". - Steven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis (born December 19 1958, London) is one of the most prominent living cellists. He is notable for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound and total command of phrasing. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and was also highly influneced by the great iconoclast of Russian cello playing, Daniil Shafran. Isserlis plays both as soloist and chamber musician and has rediscovered many previously neglected works. - Heinrich Schiff
Heinrich Schiff is a noted Austrian cellist, much in demand as a soloist with the world's leading chamber ensembles and major orchestras. He is also an internationally renowned conductor. He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971. He studied conducting with Swarovsky, and made his conducting debut in 1986. He plays the "Mara" Stradivarius (1711) and "Sleeping Beauty" made by Montagnana in Venice in 1739. - Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova is a Russian violin virtuoso. Mullova has become highly regarded for her performances and recordings of a number of great violin concertos, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and others. After studying at the Central Music School of Moscow and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Leonid Kogan, … - Jacques Thibaud
Jacques Thibaud (September 27, 1880 - September 1, 1953) was a French violinist. Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatoire's violin prize with Pierre Monteux (who later became a famous conductor). He was injured while fighting in World War I, after which he had to rebuild his technique. - Carl Flesch
Carl Flesch (October 9, 1873 - November 14, 1944) was a violinist and teacher. Born in Moson in Hungary, Flesch studied at the conservatoires in Vienna and Paris. He settled in Berlin, and as well as being known for his solo performances in a very wide range of repertoire (from Baroque music to contemporary), gained fame as a chamber music performer and as a violin pedagogue. - Elizabeth Pitcairn
Elizabeth Pitcairn, born December 5, 1973 into a musical Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania family, began the violin at age three and performed her first concerto with orchestra at 14. She studied violin in Los Angeles with Robert Lipsett at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her great-great-grandfather was John Pitcairn (19 Jan 1841 - 1916), founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. - Kyoko Takezawa
Kyoko Takezawa is a prominent Japanese-born violinist. She has recorded on both the BMG and RCA labels. She started her training in Japan as a part of the Suzuki Method program and was part of a tour of the United States. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School (1989) where her teacher was Dorothy Delay. Ms. Takezawa has won the gold medal in and, in 2006, served as a judge for the International Indianapolis Violin Competition. - Truls Mørk
Truls Otterbech Mørk is a Norwegian cellist. He was born in Bergen, Norway, the child of two professional musicians, his father a cellist and his mother a pianist. His mother began teaching him the piano when he was seven. He also played the violin, but soon switched to the cello, taking lessons from his father. Mørk started studying with Frans Helmerson at 17 at the renowned Edsberg Music Institute. An admirer of Mstislav Rostropovich and the Russian school of cello, … - Viviane Hagner
Viviane Hagner (born 1977 in Munich, Germany) is an internationally-renowned violinist. Hagner made her international debut at the age of 12, and one year later performed as soloist at the historic "Joint Concert" in Tel Aviv with the Berlin and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras, under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Since her debut, Ms. Hagner has been a regular soloist with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Chicago Symphony, … - Angèle Dubeau
Angèle Dubeau, CM, CQ (born March 24 1962) is a Québécoise violinist. Dubeau is a graduate and First Prize winner of the Montreal Conservatory of Music. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and later went to Romania to work with Stefan Gheorghiu. Since that time, Dubeau has been regarded as one of Canada's most prominent classical performing artists. - Leila Josefowicz
Leila Bronia Josefowicz (born October 20, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a classical violinist. Born into a Polish-English family, while a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started studying violin at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method. Her father, physicist Jack Josefowicz, learned with her until "out of the mouths of babes" she told him that he wasn't very good. At five, she started formal lessons with Idel Low. - Carlos Prieto
Carlos Prieto is a Mexican-born cello player and composer. Prieto is one of the most respected cellist who regularly premiers musical masterpieces composed for him by Latin American, North American and European composers. He plays a Stradivarius cello named "The Piatti" after Carlo Alfredo Piatti, affectionatelly nicknamed "Chelo Prieto" by the current owner. He is a promoter of contemporary, original classical instrument music by Latin American composers. - David Grimal
David Grimal (born 1973) is a French violinist. Considered one of the most interesting musicians of his generation, he is invited to perform all over the world. He plays the ex Roederer Stradivarius of 1710. - Sayaka Shoji
Sayaka Shoji is a Japanese classical Violinist. She is the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999. She was born into an artistic familly (her mother is a painter, grandmother is a poet) and spent her childhood in Siena, Italy. She studied at Hochschule für Musik Köln under Zakhar Bron and graduated in 2004. Her other teachers have included Sashko Gawrillow,Uto Ughi and Shlomo Mintz. <br/> Zubin Mehta has been her strong supporter. - Adrien-François Servais
Adrien-François Servais was one of the most influential cellists of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in Halle, Belgium. Servais was originally trained as a violinist before switching to the cello later on. Known by his contemporaries for his virtuosity and excessive vibrato, he was given the gift of a Stradivarius cello early in his career. He is also known as the inventor of the endpin. He is the composer of numerous works for his instrument, … - Augustin Hadelich
Augustin Hadelich (born 1984, Italy) is a violinist and winner of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He performs on the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivari violin Augustin Hadelich holds a diploma (summa cum laude) from the Instituto Mascagni in Livorno, Italy, and a graduate diploma from the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. - Colin Carr
Colin Carr is a distinguished professor of cello currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years before taking up his current job at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition, he is also affiliated with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He took second place in the international Rostropovich Cello Competition. Carr began playing at the age of five, and studied with Maurice Gendron. - Mayuko Kamio
Mayuko Kamio is a young Japanese violinist. Ms. Kamio is currently studying with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater (HMT) in Zurich, Switzerland, and plays a Stradivarius from 1727, previously owned by Joseph Joachim. She has appeared with reknowned orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Russian National Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, and the Zürcher Kammerorchester. - Jean-Pierre Duport
Jean-Pierre Duport (November 27, 1741-December 31, 1818) was a cellist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He owned and played the Duport Stradivarius, which was, until recently, in the possession of the Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich. Along with his brother, Jean-Louis Duport (also a cellist), he was active in the musical life of France and Germany. Jean-Pierre was the son of a dancing master, … - Hugo Becker
Hugo Becker was a prominent 20th century cellist and cello teacher. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. He was born in 1864 in Strasbourg, his father a famous violinist. His father tried teaching him violin at the age of six, but he loved cello, and switched over at the age of nine. By age fifteen he was touring with a string quartet made up of him, his father, sister, and brother. - Yuuko Shiokawa
Yuuko Shiokawa is a Japanese-born violinist. She was born in Tokyo and started studying violin when she was 5. In 1957, her family emigrated to Peru, where she studied with Eugen Cremer and started to give concerts. In 1963, she began master classes with Wilhelm Stross in Munich, and with Sandör Vegh in Salzburg starting in 1968. When she was 19, she received the Preis der Deutschen Musikhochschulen and the Mendelssohn Prize. - George Balabushka
George Balabushka (December 9, 1912 - December, 1975) was a Russian-born legendary billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, and is sometimes referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers". His full name or last name standing alone is often used to refer to a cue stick made by him. - Antonio Torres Jurado
Antonio De Torres Jurado was a Spanish guitarist and guitar maker. Jurado is as revered among guitarists as Antonio Stradivari is revered among violinists. His work established the shape, design, and construction of the modern Classical guitar. Born in La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Antonio de Torres was the son of Juan Torres, a local tax collector, and Maria Jurado. As was common, when he was 12 he started an apprenticeship as carpenter. - Jan Kubelík
Jan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer. He was born in Michle (now part of Prague) and studied at the Prague Conservatoire with Otakar Ševčík, of whose technique he became the most famous representative. As a child, he used to practice 10 to 12 hours a day, or "until my fingers started to bleed." After 1898, he toured as a soloist, soon becoming renowned for his great virtuosity and flawless intonation, and his very full and noble tone. - Karl Davydov
Karl Juljewitsch Davydov, was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of cellists". In his youth he studied mathematics at St. Petersburg University, and then pursued a career as a composer, studying with Moritz Hauptmann at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became a full-time cellist in 1850 while continuing to compose in his spare time. He later became head of the St Petersburg Conservatory. - Igino Sderci
Igino (Iginius) Sderci (1884 - 1983) was born in Florence, Italy. He devoted his entire career to violin making, studying under master maker Leandro Bisach. A very prolific maker making more than 700 instruments including many large violas. He won gold medals at the prestigious Stradivarius Exhibition at Cremona in 1937 marking the bicentanary of Stradivari's death (as well as prizes in 1949). From his earliest childhood Igino Sderci was interested in music & art. - Sergei Khachatryan
Sergey Khachatryan is a violinist who was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1985. He won the Sibelius violin competition in 2000, the youngest person to ever win it, and in 2005, he took the First Prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. Khachatryan plays the 1708 ‘Huggins’ Stradivarius violin on loan to him from the Nippon Music Foundation. He records for Naïve Classique. He made his New York City debut on August 4 2006, … - Paul Rosenthal
Paul Rosenthal (born 1942) is an American virtuoso violinist. He studied at the Juilliard School and with Jascha Heifetz in Los Angeles. He has recorded chamber music (Spohr, Brahms, Tchaikovsky) with the biggest record companies. He leads an intense concert career, as well as giving master classes not only in Juneau, Alaska, where he lives, but in Europe, Japan, Korea and North America. He plays a Stradivarius violin. - Joseph Contreras
Joseph Contreras was born in about 1710, in Granada, Spain, hence his commonly used nickname 'el Granadino'. He worked in Madrid from about 1745, as violin maker and repairer to the Spanish Court. This brought him into contact with some of the best violins of his day, including examples by Stradivarius and Guarnerius. He is famous for the copies of these instruments which he made, using fine materials and exceptional skill. Only a few of his instruments have survived today, … - Paul Mielke
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