Prone to Violins

Eduard Grach is a Russian violinist, teacher, and conductor born on December 19, 1930 (Heifetz was 29 years old.)   He is considered Russia’...

I have said several times that the list of violinists on my webpage (numbering 500 and growing) is arbitrary.   Similarly, the list on this ...

Compiling statistics can sometimes be enlightening. Numbers can tell us any number of things.   On this blog however, they are completely ir...

Albert Markov is a Russian (Ukrainian) violinist, composer, pedagogue, and conductor born on May 8, 1933 (Heifetz was 32 years old.)   He...

Julia Igonina is a Russian concert violinist born on April 3, 1978 (Heifetz was 77 years old.)   She is widely known as a champion of contem...

Lucien Capet (Lucien Louis Capet) was a French violinist, teacher, and composer born on January 8, 1873 (Brahms was 40 years old.)   He is...

Ivan Galamian (Ivan Alexander Galamian) was an Armenian violinist and teacher (some sources say Persian because he was born in Iran) born o...