Results for "violin"

Katica Illenyi

Born: February 17, 1968

On her concerts she plays classical pieces on the violin, jazz standards, world famous movie soundtracks and evergreens.

She was born in Budapest, Hungary, and comes from a classical music family. Her first teacher was her father Ferenc Illényi (1935-2007), who played in the Hungarian State Opera House. He decided to bring up all his children to become musicians. Her mother was a special education teacher but played the piano very well. The four Illényi siblings Katica, Ferenc, Anikó and Csaba started to play on instruments at the age of three.

"My dad played in the Opera Orchestra.. He used to take us to the Opera when we were young. We loved sitting in his place in the orchestra pit in the intervals. If there were free seats, we used to watch the performance from the front row. From there we could see the orchestra as well."

Sara Parkins

SARA PARKINS, violinist, is a Grammy award winner for the Best Chamber Music Performance of the complete recordings of the Haydn string quartets, with the Angeles Quartet. Sara is also a prize winner of the Fiscoff National Chamber Music Competition with the Stonybrook Piano Trio. On the forefront of contemporary music, she has collaborated with prominent new music composers and performers such as Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, and Gerry Hemmingway, among others. In addition, Sara performs with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City and is also active as a studio musician in Los Angeles. An international performer, Ms. Parkins has played at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Banff Centre, and strings in the mountains in Colorado, as well as the Taktlos festival in Zurich, and Festival International de Cadeques in Spain

Monica Germino

Violinist Monica Germino (USA/The Netherlands) is on the cutting edge of new music. Hailed by The Sunday Times (UK) as a ‘striking presence’ whose ‘virtuosity was exhilarating’, she has premiered innovative works in such venues as Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, Alice Tully Hall, Mass MoCA, Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center, Queensland Biennial Festival, Holland Festival and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She performs often as a soloist and chamber musician with London Sinfonietta, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Orkest de Volharding, MusikFabrik, Remix and Oslo Sinfonietta. Monica is co-founder of the international four- member ensemble ELECTRA, which commissions composers from all over the world. She has recorded for  Attacca Records, Basta Music and BMOP, as well as numerous discs with the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble for Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch and Philips.

Ada Pasternak

Born in Moscow, violinist Ada Pasternak relocated with her family to the United States at the age of 6. It was at that young age that she began studying violin with her aunt, New York Philharmonic violinist Asya Meshberg. She continued her studies with Albert Markov at the Manhattan School of Music, and went on to win grand prize in her first music competition in 2001. She has gone on to win numerous competitions and awards, including the Concerto Competition at the Manhattan School of Music.

Majid Khaliq

Born: April 20, 1977

Majid Khaliq is a violinist and composer cut from a different cloth. He has been described by legendary musician Wynton Marsalis as having “a unique blend of improvisation, groove and technical sophistication.” Although classically trained, Mr. Khaliq’s passion and musical palette ranges from the roots of American jazz music to the greats of the Progressive jazz scene. He is quickly establishing himself as a rising talent in the world of jazz. As a young boy growing up in the New York area, Mr. Khaliq demonstrated a serious interest in the recordings of Duke Ellington featuring Ray Nance on violin that he heard his father playing at home

Helmut Lipsky

Born: November 6, 1953

Born in Germany, Helmut Lipsky studied violin with Abraham Comfort at the Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland where he received degrees in performance and pedagogy. He continued his studies in New York, working for three years with Professor Ivan Galamian. Later he was a pupil of Itzhak Perlman at the Brooklyn College Conservatory, where he obtained his Master’s Degree. He was awarded the Presidential Scholars Award from the Council of the City of New York for his merits as a violinist and his academic work. Shortly after he toured the US with chamber music ensembles and as a soloist with orchestras in Switzerland and the United States. Resident of Montreal since 1980, Helmut Lipsky is very active on the national and international music scene as a violonist, composer and teacher in the realms of classical music, jazz and contemporary music

Rosie Hertlein

Rosie Hertlein violin, voice Staten Island, NY Rosi Hertlein's musical background is divided equally between the worlds of improvisation and contemporary classical music. She began serious study of both violin and piano in the late 70's, before switching her focus to violin and vocals in the 80's. She earned a degree in Sociology in 1989, subsequently traveling to Ghana to study the links between society and music in Western Africa. After returning to Germany, she began teaching and working as a composer, violinist, singer and percussionist in a variety of settings. Her work in recent years includes collaborations with multi instrumentalists Joe McPhee and Daniel Carter and performances with composer Pauline Oliveros' "New Circle Five"

Gidon Kremer

The Manzana Music School

- Heidi Yoo - Heidi Yoo has seven years teaching experience, and teaches Classical Violin, as well as Fiddle. She studies Violin Performance at San Francisco State University and will graduate in December of this year. She is a member of the SFSU Orchestra and Chamber Music program. She also performs as a violinist and a fiddler in the Allodola Violin Duet. As well as teaching at the Manzana Music School, Heidi teaches violin and fiddle lessons in Berkeley and lessons in San Francisco. - Victor Skidanenko - Victor Skidanenko has five years teaching experience, and teaches Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Vocals, and Charting and Arranging

Holger Jetter

Born: November 14, 1958

Holger Jetter started playing the violin at the age of 6. He studied western classical music, principal instrument violin, at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. Further studies with Lynn Blakeslee and Jean-Jacques Kantoroff, completed his classical violin education. At the age of 18 he released a first recording with a German rock band. His broad musical interests manifested in many band projects in various styles such as Bluegrass, Argentinean tango and Klezmer music. Holger's strong affinity to improvised music led to the formation of the „Modern String Quartet“