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I have been meaning to put together a list of celebrity violinists for a while, but I have not done so for reasons I do not understand.  However, I...
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Calvin Sieb was an American violinist and teacher born (in Newark, New Jersey) on May 30, 1925.  He is known for having spent most of his career in...
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Ruth Posselt (Ruth Pierce Posselt Burgin) was an American violinist and teacher born (in Medford, Massachusetts) on September 6, 1914.  She is best...
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Pianist Stephen Hough recently asked in his blog whether Jacques Thibaud was the Florence Foster Jenkins of the violin, or one of its greatest ...
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Joan Field was an American violinist born (in Long Branch, New Jersey) on April 28, 1915 (Heifetz was 14 years old and would live an additional 72 ...
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Andrei Korsakov was a Russian violinist, teacher, and conductor born on May 7, 1946 (Heifetz was 46 years old and would live an additional 40.)  Ko...
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The Green Lake Festival of Music was founded in 1979 as a summer concert series by Ripon College Music Professor Douglas Morris and a small group o...
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Silvia Marcovici is a Romanian violinist and teacher born (in Bacau) on January 30, 1952 (Itzhak Perlman was 7 years old.)  She is practically the ...
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So-Ock Kim, Violinist in Review Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Presented by the Korea Music Foundaton March 17, 2011 So-Ock-Ki...
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UPDATE: No sooner had I posted the following when I got a message from Norman Lebrecht (who blogged the link before I did) saying: "Warning: I've r...
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Louis Persinger was an American violinist, teacher, and pianist born (in Illinois) on February 11, 1887 (Brahms was 54 years old.)  Some sources gi...
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Bronislaw Huberman was a Polish violinist, teacher, and writer born on December 19, 1882 (Brahms was 49 years old.) He is best known for founding t...
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Eduard Grach is a Russian violinist, teacher, and conductor born on December 19, 1930 (Heifetz was 29 years old.)  He is considered Russia’s preemi...
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S-Z: Julia Sakharova, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Emanuel Salvador, Emile Sauret, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Pieter Schoeman, Julius Schulman, Erik Schum...
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Jacques Thibaud was a French violinist born on September 27, 1880 (Brahms was 47 years old.) After studying with his father, he entered the Paris C...
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Ivry Gitlis is a Russian violinist, composer, actor, writer, and teacher born on August 22, 1922 (Heifetz was 21 years old.) He received his first ...
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