Bruno Giuranna

Bruno Giuranna

male
Italian, Italian classical violist, Asolo, Sir John Barbirolli, Berlin Philharmonic, violist…viola
Bruno Giuranna (born in Milan) is an Italian violist. He began his solo career in 1954 when he performed the world premiere of Giorgio Federico...
Eric Coates

Eric Coates

male, deceased (1957)
film score composer, composer, Light music composer, Classical composer, viola, English
Eric Coates (August 27, 1886 - December 21, 1957) was an English composer of light music and a viola player.
Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins

male, deceased (2007)
American jazz violist, The Negros Burial Ground, The Mother of Three Sons, Avant-garde jazz musician, from Chicago, lung cancer…viola
Leroy Jenkins was an American composer and free jazz violinist and violist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jenkins became a music teacher after...
Rudolf Barshai

Rudolf Barshai

male, 85 years old
Russian classical violist, Moscow Conservatory, Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony, Leonid Kogan…viola
Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (born on September 28, 1924) is a Soviet/Russian conductor and viola player. Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya,...
Jocelyn Pook

Jocelyn Pook

female, 49 years old
From Birmingham, England, English violist, film score composer, composer, viola, English
Jocelyn Pook (born 14 February 1960, Birmingham, England) is an English composer and viola player.
Lev Zhurbin

Lev Zhurbin

male, 31 years old
American classical violist, viola, composer, Classical composer, kronos quartet, jazz
Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a composer, violist, and arranger. A frequent collaborator with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk...
Dave Swarbrick

Dave Swarbrick

male, 68 years old
David Cyril Eric 'Dave' Swarbrick, Electric folk musician, Kevin Dempsey, folk-rock, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, New Malden…viola
David Cyril Eric 'Dave' Swarbrick (born 5 April 1941 in New Malden) is an English folk musician. He plays violin, viola, mandolin, and guitar, and...

Jacob Stainer

male
cello, Luthier, Bass, viola, cremona, violin maker
Jacob Stainer (c. 1617-1683) is the earliest and most important Austrian luthier. Stainer was born in Absam, Austria, into a family of stringed...
Rivka Golani

Rivka Golani

female, 63 years old
Israeli classical violist, Canadian classical violist, Trinity College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, From Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance…viola
Rivka Golani (b. Tel Aviv, 1946) is a Canadian violist. Born in Israel, Ms. Golani became a Canadian citizen in 1983. Along with her recording...

Gérard Caussé

male, 61 years old
toulouse, viola, music educator, From toulouse, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, French classical violist
Gérard Caussé was born in Toulouse, France in 1948 and he is the maestro who has returned to the viola its renown and freedom as a solo in...