Joseph Silverstein

Joseph Silverstein is an American violinist, conductor, and teacher born on March 21, 1932 (Heifetz was 31 years old.) He is best known for being a long-time concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the Utah Symphony (as of 1998.) At an early age, he began his violin studies with his father but eventually entered the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) where he studied with Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Gingold, Mischa Mischakoff, and William Primrose, among others. Prior to joining the Boston Symphony in 1955, he was a violinist in the orchestras of Houston (1950), Philadelphia (1952 - 8th desk), and Denver (1953). He became concertmaster of the Boston Symphony in 1962 (after Richard Burgin) and served in that capacity until 1984. He was also assistant conductor of the BSO from 1971 until 1984. He was appointed conductor of the Utah Symphony in 1983 and was there until 1998. From 1987 to 1989, he was Music Director of the Chautauqua Symphony as well. He also conducted the Florida Orchestra from 2001 until 2003. Along the way, he has conducted and recorded (for Telarc, RCA, CBS, Nonesuch, DG, Pro Arte, etc.) with a large number of orchestras worldwide. Silverstein has taught at the Curtis Institute, Yale University, Boston University, and the New England Conservatory. He plays a 1742 Guarnerius (and he used to play a 1773 J.B. Guadagnini formerly owned by Arthur Grumiaux.) 

List of Violinists part four

S-Z: Julia Sakharova, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Emanuel Salvador, Emile Sauret, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Pieter Schoeman, Julius Schulman, Erik Schumann, Robin Scott, Lynnette Seah, Toscha Seidel, Berl Senofsky, Gil Shaham, Hagai Shaham, Sayaka Shoji, Oscar Shumsky, Calvin Sieb, Joseph Silverstein, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Baiba Skride, Alexander Skwortsow, Felix Slatkin, Joel Smirnoff, Tamara Smirnova, Robert Soetens, Livia Sohn, Denise Soriano, Evgeny Sorkin, Josef Spacek, Nils-Erik Sparf, Vladimir Spivakov, Daniel Stabrawa, Simon Standage, Steven Staryk, Eva Stegeman, Arabella Steinbacher, Mark Steinberg, Oliver Steiner, Arnold Steinhardt, Isaac Stern, Malcolm Stewart, Lara St John, Petar Stojanovic, Emmy Storms, Josef Suk, Harold Sumberg, Akiko Suwanai, Christian Svarfvar, Joseph Swensen, Vilmos Szabadi, Antal Szalai, Henryk Szeryng, Joseph Szigeti, Kyoko Takezawa, Gerhard Taschner, David Taylor, Christian Tetzlaff, Jeff Thayer, Jacques Thibaud, Anna Tifu, Richard Tognetti, Ertan Torgul, Roman Totenberg, Caitlin Tully, Eleonora Turovsky, Uto Ughi, Eugene Ugorski, Elena Urioste, Elina Vahala, Mary VanOsdale, Adrian Varela, Tibor Varga, Sandor Vegh, Alexander Velinson, Maxim Vengerov, Zino Vinnikov, Kai Vogler, Ion Voicu, Edith Volckaert, Olena Vrublevska, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Reiko Watanabe, Camilla Wicks, Wanda Wilkomirska, Jasper Wood, Eric Wyrick, Toru Yasunaga, David Yonan, Eugene Ysaye, Thomas Zehetmair, Wang Zhijiong, Isaak Zhuk, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Yulia Ziskel, Nicolaj Znaider, Pinchas Zukerman, Jaap van Zweden.

List of Violinists part three

M-R: Nicolai Madoyev, Ara Malikian, Bracha Malkin, Robert Mann, Andrew Manze, Alexander Markov, Henri Marteau, Neville Marriner, Mihaela Martin, Johanna Martzy, Ralph Matson, Petri Mattson, Edouard Matzener, David McCarroll, Yuri Medianik, Tymur Melnyk, Yehudi Menuhin, Joseph Meyer, Anne Akiko Meyers, Stefan Milenkovich, Nathan Milstein, Shlomo Mintz, Steven Moeckel, Alma Moodie, Barennie Moon, Erica Morini, Victoria Mullova, Irina Muresanu, Anne Sophie Mutter, David Nadien, Ginette Neveu, Piotr Nikiforoff, Kurt Nikkanen, Gordan Nikolitch, Takako Nishizaki, Siegmund Nissel, Domenico Nordio, Mark O'Connor, David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh, Valery Oistrakh, Raphael Oleg, Elmar Oliveira, Theo Olof, Sergey Ostrovsky, Michaela Paetsch, Rusanda Panfili, Susie Park, Gyorgy Pauk, Marek Pavelec, Elisa Pegreffi, Adela Pena, Myvanwy Penny, Itzhak Perlman, Louis Persinger, Anna Petrova, Johanna Pichlmair, Christine Pichlmeir, Igor Pikaysen, Elizabeth Pitcairn, Rachel Podger, Alina Pogostkina, Anton Polezhayev, Hristo Popov, Maud Powell, Andrej Power, Hubert Pralitz, William Preucil, Vasa Prihoda, Liviu Prunaru, William Pu, Rodrigo Puskas, Anastasia Pylatyuk, Riele Queling, Philip Quint, Julian Rachlin, Manuel Ramos, Nazrin Rashidova, Helena Rathbone, Henry Raudales, Jonathan Rees, Jesus Reina, Ossy Renardi, Vadim Repin, Yuri Revich, Gerardo Ribeiro, Ruggiero Ricci, Nate Robinson, Aaron Rosand, David Rubinoff, Peter Rybar.

List of Violinists part two

F-L: Hector Falcon, Isabelle Faust, Maxim Fedotov, Michael Fernandez, Christian Ferras, Liza Ferschtman, Mark Fewer, Julia Fischer, Jorja Fleezanis, Carl Flesch, Eugene Fodor, Annar Folleso, Ann Fontanella, Zino Francescatti, Vilde Frang, Pamela Frank, Nahan Franko, Sam Franko, Erick Friedman, Rodney Friend, Roger Frisch, Joseph Fuchs, Mayumi Fujikawa, Angela Fuller, Ivan Galamian, Simin Ganatra, Michael Gantvarg, David Garrett, Enrico Gatti, Ilmar Gavilan, Theodora Geraets, Andre Gertler, Laurence Gibson, Alexander Gilman, Ivry Gitlis, Thelma Given, Matan Givol, Vadim Gluzman, Michael Goldman, Karen Gomyo, Ruben Gonzales, Midori Gotoh, Thomas Gould, Caroline Goulding, Eduard Grach, Philippe Graffin, Salvatore Greco, David Grimal, Ilya Gringolts, Ilya Grubert, Arthur Grumiaux, Franco Gulli, Augustin Hadelich, Viviane Hagner, Hilary Hahn, David Halen, Eric Halen, Chloe Hanslip, Sidney Harth, Josef Hassid, Andrew Haveron, Jascha Heifetz, Willy Hess, Jonathan Hill, Philippe Hirshorn, Sabrina Hopcker, Daniel Hope, Lei Hou, Bin Huang, Vaclav Hudecek, Bronislaw Huberman, Monica Huggett, Yumi Hwang, Alina Ibragimova, Kikuei Ikeda, Pavel Ilyashov, Kanako Ito, Stefan Jackiw, Andreas Janke, Aaron Janse, Janine Jansen, Dylana Jenson, Leila Josefowicz, Ilya Kaler, Mayuko Kamio, Suna Kan, Juliette Kang, Jean Kantorow, Mark Kaplan, Michael Karlson, Daishin Kashimoto, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Leonidas Kavakos, Tamaki Kawakubo, Barnabas Kelemen, Nigel Kennedy, Alexander Kerr, Misha Keylin, David Kim, Nicolas Koeckert, Rudolf Koelman, Leonid Kogan, Jennifer Koh, Elissa Koljonen, Laurent Korcia, Berent Korfker, Sasha Korobkina, Natasha Korsakova, Henning Kraggerud, Louis Krasner, Fritz Kreisler, Gidon Kremer, Jan Kubelik, Rainer Kuehl, Sigiswald Kuijken, Georg Kulenkampff, Daniel Kurganov, Boris Kuschnir, Rainer Kussmaul, Sarah Kwak, Joan Kwuon, Fredell Lack, Simone Lamska, Jaime Laredo, Maria Larionoff, Rachel Lee, Shannon Lee, Timothy Lees, Geza Legocky, Elina Lev, Cho-Liang Lin, Tasmin Little, Bing Liu, Malcolm Lowe, Sergiu Luca, Calin Lupano.

List of Violinists part one

A-E: Salvatore Accardo, Joseph Achron, Philippe Aiche, Khachatur Almazian, Frank Almond, Janine Andrade, Adele Anthony, Gilles Apap, Matthieu Arama, Cecylia Arzewski, Michele Auclair, Maja Avramovic, Felix Ayo, David Ballesteros, Alexander Barantschik, Dale Barltrop, Elisa Barston, Rachel Barton, Lisa Batiashvili, Remy Baudet, Corina Belcea, Monte Belknap, Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti, Margareta Benkova, Dmitry Berlinsky, Vera Beths, Fabio Biondi, Kolja Blacher, Lola Bobesco, Emmanuelle Boisvert, Hakan Borjeson, Emanuel Borok, Hugues Borsarello, Norbert Brainin, Guy Braunstein, Raphael Bronstein, Iona Brown, Stephen Bryant, Adolf Busch, Guila Bustabo, James Buswell, Enrico Cacciato, Alfredo Campoli, Roberto Cani, Serena Canin, Renaud Capucon, Andres Cardenes, Giuliano Carmignola, Jonathan Carney, Sebastian Casteanu, Corey Cerovsek, Martin Chalifour, Sarah Chang, Stephanie Chase, Robert Chen, Ray Chen, Marina Chiche, Daniel Ching, Kyung Wha Chung, Lenuta Ciulei, James Clark, Franz Clement, Raymond Cohen, Manuel Compinsky, David Coucheron, Miranda Cuckson, Lucy van Dael, Emily Daggett, John Dalley, Carlos Damas, Elmira Darvarova, Roland Daugareil, Wolfgang David, Michael Davis, Andrew Dawes, Francesco De Angelis, Dorothy DeLay, Ellen De Pasquale, Zach De Pue, Philippe Descamps, Alma Deutscher, Lindsay Deutsch, Gioconda DeVito, Glenn Dicterow, Erika Dobosiewicz, Jacob Dont, Rafael Druian, Augustin Dumay, Edward Dusinberre, Christiane Edinger, James Ehnes, Mischa Elman, Evgenia Epshtein, Vesko Eschkenazy.