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Nacht Der Tanz
A Nacht Der Tanz was a post romantic orchestral composition style created by Joel Kass. Although earlier works for this category were primarily written for piano and violin, later works incorporated full orchestra and symphonic works. Each Nacht Der Tanz has the following elements that are in common: ---- 1. Versammlung which generally begins with the theme and often with a solo instument. ---- 2. Kuss des Abends which add strings, cellos and french horns. ---- 3. More »
Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang is a Korean American violinist with Korean nationality. Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 7 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, including Chang's father. More »
Tosca Kramer
Tosca Kramer, née Tosca Berger , was a New Zealand-born American violinist and violist. Kramer, along with her parents, was instrumental in bringing classical music performance and instruction to the state of Oklahoma. Tosca Berger was the daughter of Kurt and Lucy Berger. Her father was an eminent conductor and her mother an Impressionist painter. As a youth Tosca studied violin with Willy Hess and Eugène Ysaÿe, earning a Diploma from the Royal Conservatory at Sondershausen in Thuringia,... More »
Simon Shaheen
Simon Shaheen is an Arab Israeli oud and violin virtuoso and composer. At the age of 2, Shaheen moved with his family to Haifa. More »
Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. More »
Paz Lenchantin
Paz Lenchantin is an Argentine-American musician of French and Armenian ancestry who came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four. She speaks fluent Spanish and English. As her parents, Mario Merdirossian and Ana Lia Lenchantin were both professional concert pianists, she was motivated to follow their path and began playing piano at age five. She then took violin lessons at age eight and taught herself how to play guitar at age twelve. More »
Ace Brigode
Ace Brigode was a United States dance band leader who enjoyed his greatest popularity in the 1920s. His band began playing professionally in early 1921 as "Ace Brigode & His 10 Virginians"; a bit later they were renamed "Ace Brigode & His 14 Virginians"; this name stuck although the band varied between having 9 to 19 members over the years. The band played in the moderately jazz-influenced peppy dance band style called "Collegiate Hot" that to many people exemplifies the music of the... More »
Jesse Ceci
Jesse Arthur Ceci was a violinist and former concertmaster, most notably of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra , the Minnesota Orchestra and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ceci had a most versatile and distinguished career. A child prodigy, he began his studies at Curtis Institute of Music on a full scholarship at the age of eight. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music from... More »
Robin Cox
Robin Cox is an American composer and violinist. He is also the director and founder of the Robin Cox Ensemble http://www.robincoxensemble.com. Cox studied at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Miami with composers Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Donald Grantham, Dennis Kam, and Dan Welcher. Cox currently serves on the faculties of California State University, Long Beach and the University of California, Santa Barbara. More »
Ralph Farris
Ralph Farris is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He specializes in new music and is a founding member of the string quartet ETHEL. Farris was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, the son of musicians, Nancy DuCette Farris and Ralph Howard Farris. He began studying music at the age of 3, beginning with recorder and piano, moving on to violin at age six. As a boy soprano, he was featured as a soloist in several of his parents' Ralph Farris Chorale... More »
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