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A Boston -based ensemble, the Hawthorne String Quartet takes its name from the New England novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and was founded in 1986. [3] Its violist, Mark Ludwig, is also the Founder and Director of the Terezin Music Foundation. [4] Since its founding, the Quartet have toured both in the United States and internationally, and ...
Musician. Wood was the original string master of the symphonic rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He has also played with Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Steve Vai, Westworld, and Lenny Kravitz. As a solo performer he has released seven CDs featuring his own versions of popular rock songs. On these CDs he is accompanied by "The Mark Wood Experience ...
Paganini in 1836 by John Whittle. Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini ( Italian: [ni (k)koˈlɔ ppaɡaˈniːni] ⓘ; 27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks amongst the greatest Baroque composers and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.
A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari ( Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. They are considered some of the finest instruments ever made, and are extremely valuable collector's items.
Louis Spohr ( [ˈluːi ˈʃpo:ɐ], 5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, [1] later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig was a German composer, violinist and conductor . Highly regarded during his lifetime, [2] Spohr composed ten symphonies, ten operas, eighteen violin concerti, four clarinet concerti, four ...
Classical violinist, educator, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Grigoreva, Viktoria. 1990s. Kharkiv, Ukraine. living. London, England. Ukrainian. Studied under Semion Mikitiansky and Irina Grebneva / Concert violinist and educator. Kouznetsova, Maria.
The Art of Violin Playing Books 1 & 2, Carl Flesch. Edited by Eric Rosenblith. Carl Fischer Music ISBN 0-8258-2822-8 and ISBN 0-8258-6590-5; The Armenian Bowing Art, Anahit Tsitsikian,Published by “Edit Print” print house Yerevan, 2004.(in Russian) The Art of Violin Playing, Daniel Melsa, Foulsham & Co. Ltd.