- Itzhak Perlman
Perlman began his music career at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, Israel. In 1958, at the age of 13, Itzhak Perlman won an Israeli talent competition. This win made it possible for Perlman to travel to the United States to tour and appear on television. He then stayed in the U.S. and continued his musical training at the Juilliard School in New York City. In 1964, Perlman won a contest among young musicians known as the Leventritt Competition. - Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. - Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, … - Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz (December 10, 1987) was a Lithuanian-born American violin virtuoso. - Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern was one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz, Ukraine on July 21, 1920, Isaac Stern was ten months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928. He studied there until 1931, then studied privately with Louis Persinger. - 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. - Vanessa-Mae
Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, known onstage as Vanessa-Mae (in Chinese: 陳美, Chén Měi) is an internationally known British classical and pop musician, especially noted for her violin skills. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style. In April 2006, Vanessa-Mae was ranked as the wealthiest young entertainer under 30 in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006. - David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Jewish Soviet violinist who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works. His recordings and performances of Shostakovich's concerti are particularly well known, but he was also a performer of classical concerti. He worked with orchestras in Russia, and also with musicians in Europe and the United States. - Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian violinist and conductor. Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish origin, his father being a Holocaust survivor. He began to play the violin at the age of four, receiving tuition from his father and his grandfather, who were both professional violinists. He went on to study at the Riga School of Music and with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. - Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy (born December 28, 1956 in Brighton, England) is a violinist and violist. He was a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School, under Yehudi Menuhin himself, and later at the Juilliard School in New York under Dorothy DeLay. He is most famous for his recordings of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. For a time he preferred to be known by just his surname "Kennedy". - 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. - Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Illinois and resides in northwest Illinois on a farm in the town of Elizabeth. His musical proficiency includes violin, whistling, guitar, and glockenspiel. - David Zinman
David Zinman (b. 9 July, 1936) is an American conductor and violinist. - Gustavo Dudamel
He's the rock star of classical music. Handsome, talented, charismatic - the usual accolades apply to Gustavo Dudamel , at age 27, incoming music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He guest-conducts the New York Philharmonic Saturday at Tilles... - Bernard Haitink
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink CH KBE (b. March 4, 1929) is a Dutch conductor, born in Amsterdam, the son of Willem Haitink and Anna Haitink. He studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam. He played the violin in orchestras before taking courses in conducting under Ferdinand Leitner in 1954 and 1955. Haitink became second conductor of the Netherlands Radio Union Orchestra in 1955. He took the post of chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in 1957. - Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop's first performance as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on 27 September was recently featured on NBC's Today Show. The program included Adams, Fearful Symmetries and Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Click here to visit the MSNBC site - to view the programme, enter 'Marin Alsop' under Find Film search box. - Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899 - March 12, 1985) was an eminent conductor and violinist. - Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt OBE(born July 26, 1958) is a Canadian classical pianist. She also holds British nationality through her father, Godfrey, who was the cathedral organist in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Angela Hewitt began her piano studies at age 3, performed in public at 4, and won her first music scholarship at 5. Aside from the piano, she also studied violin, recorder, and ballet (at Mme. Toumine's school in Ottawa). - Rhonda Vincent
Rhonda Vincent is an American bluegrass singer and an accomplished mandolin, guitar and fiddle player. She was born July 13, 1962, in Kirksville, Missouri, United States, where she still lives. Her musical career started as a child in her family's band, The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned almost four decades. She achieved success in the bluegrass genre in the 1970s and '80s, … - Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons (b. January 14, 1943) is a prominent Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvid Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga ghetto. As a child, he first studied violin with his father. In 1946, his father won second prize in a national competition and was chosen by Yevgeny Mravinsky to be his assistant at the Leningrad Philharmonic. - 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". - Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer (born 15 june 1983) is a German violinist. - Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen is a French Avant-Garde Musician and composer known for his versatility, minimalist compositions, and virtuosity as a multi-instrumentalist. Most of his pieces include piano, accordion,melodica and violin, although many offer a much wider selection of instruments and sounds. Critics sometimes compare him to Erik Satie, Nino Rota, and the Penguin Café Orchestra for their musical proximity. - Mischa Maisky
Mischa Maisky (born January 10, 1948 in Riga) is a celebrated cellist who won 6th Prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966. Maisky began studies with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory whilst pursuing a concert career throughout the Soviet Union. In 1970, he was imprisoned in a labor camp near Gorky for 18 months. After his release, he emigrated to Israel to avoid further persecution by the Soviet regime. - Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He was born in the city of Augsburg (Germany), and was legally a citizen of the Diocese of Salzburg (now in Austria), but spent much of his time in Vienna, Austria, (all within the Holy Roman Empire). He is best known today for being the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as writing the well-known book, "Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule", but in his time, … - Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber is a British cellist. He is the son of the composer William Lloyd Webber (some of whose pieces for cello he has recorded) and the younger brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two brothers collaborated on the classical/rock recording Variations — based on Paganini's A minor Caprice for solo violin. - Pablo de Sarasate
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués, was a Spanish violin virtuoso and composer of the Romantic period. Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an artillery bandmaster. He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared in his first public concert in La Coruña at the age of eight. - David Diamond
David Leo Diamond (July 9 1915 - June 13 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He won a number of awards including three Guggenheim Fellowships, and is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. - Myung-Whun Chung
Myung-Whun Chung is a Korean-American pianist and conductor. He is the brother of the violinist Kyung-Wha Chung and the cellist Myung-Wha Chung. They perform together as the Chung piano trio. In 1989, Chung became music director of the Opéra Bastille, recruited by Pierre Bergé, even though Chung did not speak French at the time. Chung served in this position until 1994. He continues to work in France as music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, … - Josef Suk
Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist. Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák (he married Dvořák's daughter in 1898). He formed the Czech Quartet with three of his fellow students — Suk played second violin with them for most of his life. From 1922 he taught at the Prague Conservatory where his pupils included Bohuslav Martinů and Rudolf Firkušný. He died in Benešov. - Reinhard Goebel
Reinhard Goebel is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments. Goebel received his first violin lessons at the age of twelve. The teachers as a violinist were Franzjosef Maier, the leader of the Collegium Aureum, Saschko Gawriloff, an expert on difficult modern scores and with the baroque violinists Marie Leonhardt in The Hague and Eduard Melkus in Vienna. - Ben Webster
Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27 1909-September 20 1973) was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. He had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls), yet on ballads he would play with warmth and sentiment. Stylistically he was heavily indebted to Hawkins, particularly for his low, … - Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is a jazz violinist. Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980, then in Nashville Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. Feldman often worked with John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, John Abercrombie, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, and Billy Hart. He played on recordings by Michael Brecker, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter. - Robert Smith
Robert James Smith, is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and has been the lead singer of British post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976. NY Rock calls him "pop culture’s unkempt poster child of doom and gloom", and describes his songs as "somber introspection over lush, brooding guitars" Smith is a multi-instrumentalist and can play 6- and 12-string guitars; 4- and 6-string bass guitars; double bass; keyboards; and violins. - 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. - Regina Carter
Regina Carter (b. 1966) is an American jazz violinist. Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan, and began as a classical violinist but became increasingly interested in jazz, and is considered one of the finest violinists in the genre. Carter attended Cass Technical High School with close friend, Carla Cook, who was enthusiastic about jazz, and introduced her to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald. Cook went on to become a successful jazz singer. - Marshall Hall
George William Louis Marshall Hall was an English-born musician, conductor and poet, active in Australia. Later in life he hyphenated his last two names and was known as George William Louis Marshall-Hall or George W. L. Marshall-Hall. Hall was the son of a surgeon and grandson of Marshall Hall the distinguished physiologist, was born in London. He was educated at Mr Creak's school, The Wick, Brighton, and the Blackheath proprietary school. - 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. - John Fogerty
John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock or roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was born in Berkeley, California. John Fogerty plays many instruments including guitar, harmonica, piano, bass, drums, banjo, electronic organ, percussion, violin, and saxophone - Mike Marshall
Mike Marshall is a mandolin player and has been an instrumental part of new acoustic music for the past 25 years. He has performed and recorded with many musicians in a variety of styles, including bluegrass, classical, jazz and Brazilian music. In addition to several instruments in the mandolin family, Marshall also plays the guitar and violin. Marshall has recorded and toured with other contemporary acoustic musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, …
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