- Frank Viola
Frank John Viola, Jr. (born April 19 1960 in East Meadow, New York) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins (1982-89), New York Mets (1989-91), Boston Red Sox (1992-94), Cincinnati Reds (1995) and Toronto Blue Jays (1996). He batted and threw left-handed, and was nicknamed "Sweet Music" - an unusual nickname he picked up after a Minnesota sports writer declared that when Viola pitched, … - Bill Viola
Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international stage. - Giovanni Battista Viola
Giovanni Battista Viola (1576 - August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Born in Bologna and died in Rome. He was apparently a "student" of Annibale Carracci, and worked with Domenichino in the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616-18). He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutra. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. Viola married Silvia Gemelli in 1612, who was already mother to an Anna Gemelli, … - Brittany Viola
Brittany Viola (born 1987) is an American diver. She is the daughter of former Minnesota Twins pitching great Frank Viola and is considered a strong contender for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Brittany Viola came close to making the 2004 U.S. Olympic Diving Team, finishing second on the 10-meter platform at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Brittany Viola graduated from Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Fla., in the spring of 2005. - Giovanni Viola
Giovanni Viola (born 20 June 1926 in Turin) is a former Italian football goalkeeper. During his career he played for Juventus F.C. from 1945 to 1958, winning three Scudettos (1950, 1952, 1958). He also played 11 matches for the Italy national football team from 1954 to 1956, making his debut in the 1954 FIFA World Cup first round play-off defeat by Switzerland. - Enrique Fernández Viola
Enrique Fernández Viola, commonly referred to as Enrique Fernández, is a former Uruguayan footballer and manager who played for Nacional, FC Barcelona, Uruguay and the Catalan XI. As a manager he won two Uruguayan championships with Nacional and La Liga titles with both FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. - Mike Viola
Mike Viola is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is the leader of The Candy Butchers, a group he founded in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1990s with drummer Todd Foulsham. Viola performed the vocal of the song "That Thing You Do", featured in the film of the same name; the song was written by Adam Schlesinger. Viola also performed with Mono Puff, a side project headed by John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. He is also a member of L.E.O.. - Yohan Kely Viola
Yohan Kely Viola Sanchez (born 21 October 1981) is a footballer from the Dominican Republic who currently plays for FC Winterthur. He also played for FC Chiasso (2003-2004) and AC Lugano (2004-2006). He also holds an Italian passport. - József Viola
József Viola was a Hungarian football player and coach, most prominent for his time in Italy and his association with the club Juventus - Roberto Eduardo Viola
Roberto Eduardo Viola Prevedini was a military officer who briefly served as interim president of Argentina from March 29 to December 11, 1981 during a period of military rule. Viola appointed Lorenzo Sigaut as finance minister, and it became clear that Sigaut (and his protegé Domingo Cavallo) were looking for ways to reverse some of the economic policies of Videla's minister José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz. - Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born to a notable Jewish family, being the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes in the late 19th century, … - Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman is a noted Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor who was appointed Music Director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in April 1998. Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv. He left for the United States and studied at the Juilliard School. He made his New York début in 1963. From 1980 to 1987 he was the director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota. He married actress Tuesday Weld in 1985 but they divorced in 1998. - Nara Leão
Nara Loffego Leão, aka Musa da Bossa Nova or Bossa Nova's Muse, was a Brazilian bossa nova singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of "Bye Bye Brasil" among others. She first studied viola when she was twelve. She studied guitar with Carlos Lyra in her teens. She began as an amateur singer in university where she moved on to sing with João Gilberto and others. - Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 - Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist and violinist. He is best known for his "Roman trilogy" and the three suites of "Ancient Airs and Dances". - William Primrose
William Primrose was a Scottish violist and teacher, probably the best known viola player of his time. Primrose was born in Glasgow and studied violin there and, later, at the then Guildhall School of Music in London. From there he moved to Belgium to study under Eugène Ysaÿe who encouraged him to take up the viola instead. In 1930, he joined Warwick Evans, John Pennington, and Thomas Petre as the violist in the London String Quartet. - Gustav Leonhardt
Gustav Leonhardt made his debut in as a harpsichordist in Vienna in 1950. After studying musicology there, he served as professor of harpsichord at the Academy of Music from 1952 to 1955. He was professor of harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1954. He was also active as a church organist there. - Carl Stamitz
Karel Stamic (May 7, 1745 - November 9, 1801), who took the German form of his name Karl Philipp Stamitz and is now better known as Carl, was a Bohemian composer, violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso. He was the most prominent of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim school. Stamitz was born in Mannheim and was first taught music by Johann Stamitz, his father and founder of the Mannheim school. - Sally Beamish
Sally Beamish (born 26 August 1956, London) is a British composer of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. Beamish studied the viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley. She later studied in Germany with the Italian violinist Bruno Giuranna. As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets. However, it was as a composer that she made her mark, … - Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken (born February 16, 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on authentic instruments. He was a member of the Alarius Ensemble of Brussels between 1964 to 1972 and formed La Petite Bande in 1972. Since 1971, he has taught Baroque violin at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium in Brussels. - Jaime Laredo
Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass. He also studied with Frank Houser before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, to study under Josef Gingold in 1953. - Nobuko Imai
is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. - Raymond Leppard
Raymond John Leppard, CBE (born August 1, 1927) is a well-known British conductor and harpsichordist. In the 1960s, Leppard played an instrumental role in the rebirth of interest in baroque music; in particular, he was one of the first major conductors to perform baroque opera. - Tabea Zimmermann
Tabea Zimmermann, born on October 8 1966 in Lahr, (Germany), is a German violist. She began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five. At the age of 13, she studied viola with Ulrich Koch at the Conservatory of Fribourg and progressed to study with Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. She soon gained notice in international competitions, winning first prizes in Genève (1982), Budapest (1984), … - Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini (May 9, 1914 - June 14, 2005) was an Italian conductor, and violist. - Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Apps on June 30, 1983 at St Thomas' Hospital, London) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, kantele, organ, mountain dulcimer, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, viola and violin. - Lionel Tertis
Lionel Tertis was an English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame. Tertis was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and initially studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. There he was encouraged by Alexander Mackenzie, the Principal, to take up the viola instead. Under the additional influence of Oskar Nedbal, he did so and rapidly became one of the best known violists of his time, … - Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the most famous violin virtuosi, and is considered one of the greatest violinists who ever lived, with perfect intonation and innovative techniques. Although nineteenth century Europe had seen several extraordinary violinists, … - John Mitchell
John Mitchell (born in Hollywood, California on April 26 1941) is an American classical composer. He is the son of John Stewart Mitchell, pianist and cousin of Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell and Hungarian-born singer Teresa Hideg Mitchell. He studied music composition at the University of California, Los Angeles with Dr. John Vincent, who succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as professor of composition there. In 1965 Mitchell left UCLA, but he and Dr. - Eyvind Kang
Eyvind Kang (b. Corvallis, Oregon, United States, around 1972 (Enotes Biography)) is an American composer, violinist, tuba, and erhu player. He was raised in Canada and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries ranging from Italy to Iceland. Kang's work is difficult to classify, but can broadly be seen as a classical approach to jazz music with punk, ambient, and traditional folk influences. - Manuel Pasqual
Manuel Pasqual is a footballer for ACF Fiorentina of Serie A and the Italy national football team. After a couple of seasons playing for lowly-placed Serie D teams such as Derthona and Pordenone, Pasqual joined Serie C1's A.C. Arezzo in January 2002, having previously played for Ternana, at that point also a team in Serie C1. Pasqual became a key player at Arezzo, and one of the main catalysts for promotion into Serie B. Pasqual played one more remarkable season for Arezzo, … - Mat Maneri
Mat Maneri, born on October 4th, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York is an American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri. Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, Joe Maneri, Gerald Cleaver, Tim Berne, Borah Bergman, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Michael Formanek, John Lockwood, … - Julian Rachlin
Julian Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist and violist. Rachlin, who is Jewish, was born in Vilnius on December 8, 1974 and immigrated in 1978 with his musician parents to Austria. In 1983, he entered the Vienna Conservatory and studied violin in the Soviet tradition with Boris Kuschnir, while also receiving private lessons from Pinchas Zukerman. His career as a child prodigy began with his first public concert in 1984. - Marco Donadel
Marco Donadel (born 21 April 1983 in Conegliano, Province of Treviso, Italy) is an Italian football midfielder, currently playing for ACF Fiorentina. Donadel is a youth product of A.C. Milan. He was loaned to Lecce, Parma, Sampdoria and Fiorentina. After a successful half-season long loan with Fiorentina, the "Viola" signed him on a permanent basis. In 2005-2006 he was a regular for coach Cesare Prandelli, who had already appreciated the skills of Donadel, … - Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 - December 29, 1967) was a popular white American orchestral leader. He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start as a classical violinist and violist, Whiteman then led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became locally popular in San Francisco, California in 1918. In 1920 he moved his band to New York City where they started making recordings for Victor Records which propelled Whiteman and his band to national prominence. - Michael Tree
Michael Tree, violist, was born in Newark, New Jersey. Tree's principal viola studies were with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music. Subsequent to his Carnegie Hall recital debut, Mr. Tree has appeared as violin and viola soloist with major orchestras, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New Jersey. As a founding member of the Marlboro Trio and Guarneri Quartet, … - Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli, born August 10 1935 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium. Kancheli is his country's most famous living composer and arguably its best-known cultural export. His music is very communicative and immediate and often has a spiritual quality, which leads some to compare him (not always helpfully) to composers such as Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. There are several instances of folk and religious inspiration in his music, … - Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov (born December 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin. Internationally recognized as one of the most talented conductors of his generation, Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra since 1988. Born in 1938 in the Caucasus city of Nalchik, Yuri Temirkanov began his musical studies at the age of nine. - Chris Wood
Chris Wood is an English folk musician and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and sings. He is an ardent enthusiast for traditional English dance music (with a background in English church music), including Morris and other rituals and ceremonies, but his repertoire also includes much French folk music and traditional Québecois material. - Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan "Jonny" Richard Guy Greenwood (born November 5, 1971 in Oxford, England) is a musician and a member of Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and also serves as the band's lead guitarist. In addition to guitar he plays viola, organ, piano, xylophone, glockenspiel, ondes martenot, banjo and harmonica. He is the younger brother of fellow Radiohead member Colin Greenwood. - Atar Arad
Atar Arad is an Israeli violist and professor. Arad was a member of the Cleveland Quartet from 1980 to 1987 taking the seat of Martha Strongin Katz. He was later succeeded by James Dunham. Arad currently teaches at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, and at the Steans Institute Ravinia Festival in Chicago as well as the Domaine Forget academy for the arts in Quebec.
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