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Artist: Friedrich Wilhelm Rust
F.W. Rust was the patriarch of a prominent family of German musicians. He was a renowned violinist and capable pianist. Indicative of his virtuosity on the violin are his compositions for that instrument requiring great technical articulation. Rust studied violin and keyboard with Muller, violin with Benda and composition with C.P.E. Bach in... [+] Read More
Artist: Heinrich Von Biber
An Austrian violinist and composer who became the most celebrated violin virtuoso of the 17th century. Biber wrote many sonatas for violin that employ both normal tuning and scordatura, where the strings are tuned to a chord instead of in perfect fifths. He also composed many sacred and secular pieces. The "Mystery (or "Rosary") Sonatas," for... [+] Read More
Artist: Esprit Joseph Antoi Blanchard
Blanchard was a French composer most highly influenced by both the Italian style and Handel. He is considered to be the last important composer standing for church music to employ the figured bass to be read by cembalist or organist, doubling the lowest violin part. Blanchard maintained a singlular identity in his music with motion in the... [+] Read More
Artist: Felice Giardini
A life of eighty years brought this concert violinist to visits throughout Europe including Rome, Naples, Berlin, France, London (where he remained for over forty years), St Petersburg and Moscow. Giardini studied the harpsichord, violin, and singing. He studied violin with Somis in Turin and gave up the harpsichord after hearing a student of... [+] Read More
Artist: Vadim Repin
Russian violinist Vadim Repin was born in the city of Novosibirsk in 1971, and gave his first recital performance at the age of 11, taking top honors at the Wieniawski International Competition that very same year. Rising to international fame in 1989 upon winning first prize at the Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition in Brussels, Repin mounted a... [+] Read More
Artist: Vanessa-Mae
Bringing commercial sensuality to the often sterile world of classical music, Vanessa-Mae moved from a classical recording career into the field of popular music with her 1994 breakout album, The Violin Player. Born Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson in 1979 to a Thai-Chinese couple living in Singapore, she took her first piano lesson at the age of... [+] Read More
Artist: Corinne Bailey Rae
Neo-soul songstress Corinne Bailey Rae was born in Leeds, England, in 1979 to a British mother and West Indian father. Displaying an interest in music from an early age, Rae studied classical violin until she acquired an electric guitar in her early teens. Inspired by such '90s alt-rock icons as L7, Veruca Salt, and others, Rae formed her first... [+] Read More
Artist: Mariachi Cobre
Mariachi Cobre is one of the best known mariachi bands in the United States, performing for millions of visitors at Epcot Center, Disney World in Orland, Florida since 1982. Originally based in Tucson, Arizona, the group was formed by guitarron and guitar player Randy Carrillo, a veteran of the first mariachi group in the U.S., Mariachi Juvenil... [+] Read More
Artist: Georg Kulenkampff
Georg Kulenkampff was one of Germany's most beloved violin virtuosos of the first half of the twentieth century, and a teacher to many younger stars of the violin. Kulenkampff gave the premiere performance of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, and made the first recording of the piece; additionally, his performances of the violin concertos of... [+] Read More
Artist: Giovanni Battista Viotti
Though Viotti only performed on the violin for approximately ten years he had a profound effect on public taste and inspiration. His compositions consist of a number of works for the violin including quartets, trios and duos as well as his important twenty nine concertos. The smaller works were demonstratively composed for the dominance of the... [+] Read More
Artist: Jeses Monasterio
The most noted composition by Monasterio was "Adios a la Alhambra" for violin and piano which Meyerbeer lauded in 1862 after hearing its performance in Berlin. Monasterio was more important for his organ playing and his advocacy of instrumental music in Spain than for his compositions. Though he wrote some religious pieces his works for violin... [+] Read More
Artist: MULTIPLE DIMENSION
Hello!We play at Hiroshima Japan.MULTIPLE DIMENSION is made up of violin,synthesizer and drums.Please evaluate our tune and write the impression at our HP BBS.English OK [+] Read More
Artist: Nicolaus Bruhns
A German composer who also played the organ, violin and viola da gamba. Bruhn was an excellent representatve of the middle baroque; a student of Buxtehude and a possible influence on J. S. Bach. His violin playing was considered remarkable in that he could make one violin sound as if a number of instruments were playing. Much of his music has... [+] Read More
Artist: Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Beirot could play with the technical facility of Paganini and performed the violin with a sensibility few could equal. A student of Robberechts and Baillot, Beriot's abilities brought him a professorship at the Brussels Conservatoire. (He had turned down an offer from the Paris Conservatory.) His prominence was in performance not in composition.... [+] Read More
Artist: Vosswerk
David Voss grew up playing classical music on the violin, but under the influence of Wire in the 80's, New Order in the 90's, and the Chemical Brothers in the new century, his transition to electronic music was inevitable. [+] Read More
Artist: Amber Davis
Amber Davis has been first violin with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 1996 and has recorded with arranger and singer Helen Fenton. Davis studied at the Australian Conservatorium of Music. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Pietro Locatelli
An important Italian composer of violin sonatas and concertos. As a violinist, his feats in double stops and changes in tunings are said to have influenced Paganini. ~ Mary K. Scanlan, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Pierre Blanchard
Violinist. Contemporary violinist featured on the 1986 Sunnyside release Music for violin, string quartet, jazz trio and Lee Konitz, along with fellow players Herve Cavelier and Vincent Pagliarin. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Carlo Farina
Virtuoso violin technicalities informed this composers music, performance and place in the history of music. Farina studied at Mantua probably in the presence and perhaps under the tutelage of Rossi and Buonamente. Before his presence in the Dresden court -- where most of his compositions were written -- violin nobility did not exist. After his... [+] Read More
Artist: Joseph Achron
Achron began studying violin with his father at the age of five, giving his first performance when he was eight. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory at the age of 18 and went on to become the head of the violin and chamber departments at the Conservatory of Kharkov. After serving in the Russian Army in WWI, he took a position at... [+] Read More
Artist: The Flying Fishes
The Flying Fishes are an Indie Pop four piece out of chicago. Formed around a few college friends They've been making melodic acoustic/electric rock filled with violin and accordion orchestrations for the last two years. [+] Read More
Artist: Russell Farhang
Russell Farhang grew up in Los Angeles and studied classical violin. He performed as a teenager with the Interlochen World Youth Symphony Orchestra but soon became fascinated by jazz. He began to explore jazz improvisation on the violin and worked with jazz groups in the Los Angeles area. Moving to New York in 1992, he played with a variety of... [+] Read More
Artist: Abol Hassan Saba
Multi-instrumentalist Abol Hassan Saba played an important role in the evolution of Persia's music. A master of the violin and santur, a three-octave, wooden-hammered dulcimer, Saba was one of the first Persian musicians to approach the violin differently than the kamanche, a four-stringed, bowed, spike fiddle. His notations and publications... [+] Read More
Artist: Parisa Badiyi
Born to legendary Persian musician Rahmatollah Badiyi, Parisa Badiyi studied classical violin at a young age until her family moved to Holland in 1979. She continued her education, eventually graduating and becoming an instructor herself. She also studied under her father, and works on traditional Persian singing (avaz) while still teaching. She... [+] Read More
Artist: Volodja Balzalorsky-violinist
Violin virtuoso, Volodja Balzalorsky , from Ljubljana, Slovenia, performs internationally as a solo violinist, recitalist, and chamber musician, for which he consistently receives outstanding acclaim.Numerous highly praised concerts, broadcasts, CD and TV recordings in various countries, have established his reputation as an artist with a... [+] Read More
