Alexander Kerr (born 1970) is an American violinist. He is currently the Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Music at Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, [1] [2] and the concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He was formerly the concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. [3]
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an American orchestra based in Dallas, Texas. Its principal performing venue is the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas.
Osmo Antero Vänskä is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist, and composer.
Jacques Israelievitch, CM was a French violinist, and one of Canada's foremost chamber musicians.
Peter Manning FRSA is a British conductor and violinist.
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, is a music conservatory established in 1921. Until 2005, it was known as the Indiana University School of Music. It has more than 1,500 students, approximately half of whom are undergraduates, with the second largest enrollment of all music schools accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
Anshel Brusilow was an American violinist, conductor, and music educator at the collegiate level.
Robert Crawford Lipsett Jr. is an American violin teacher in Los Angeles, California. He holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the Colburn School. He also serves on the faculty at the Aspen School of Music and previously taught at the USC Thornton School of Music. He has given master classes at major schools around the world.
Paul Kantor is an American violin teacher. Kantor is a professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He continues the pedagogical lineage of Dorothy DeLay. He is often selected to participate as a jury member for international violin competitions.
Jacques Singer was an American virtuoso violinist, symphony orchestra conductor, and music educator who flourished from about 1925 until a few months before his death in 1980.
Frank Xin Huang is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. Since 2015 he has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Previous to his position in New York, Huang was the first violinist of the Ying Quartet and a professor of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School of Music, then served as the concertmaster of the Houston Symphony from 2010 to 2015. He has won several international music competitions, most notably the 2003 Naumburg Competition. Huang has concertized widely as a soloist, and his debut recording on Naxos was critically acclaimed.
Walter Julius Fried was an American violinist and conductor. He served as both music director and as concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra between 1911 and 1925 and was also one of Dallas's leading violin teachers during that period.
Emanuel Borok was an American violinist of Russian descent.
Andrés Cárdenes is a Cuban-born violinist, teacher, conductor, and concertmaster. He has performed and taught in a number of prominent positions, including his current professorship in violin at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling & Alexander Speyer Jr. Endowed Chair. He is also the current Artistic Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic, as well as a Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Lynn University's Conservatory of Music.
Noah Bendix-Balgley is an American classical violinist. He is currently First Concertmaster with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He served as concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2014.
Stanley Ritchie, an Australian violinist born in 1935, is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Violin at Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. A noted specialist in historical performance, Ritchie is author of two relevant books, ‘Before the Chinrest - A Violinist’s Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style’ (2012) and 'The Accompaniment in "Unaccompanied" Bach - Interpreting the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin' (2016), both published by Indiana University Press.
Jorja Kay Fleezanis was an American violinist and the Henry A. Upper Chair at Indiana University.
Kevork Mardirossian was an American violinist. He was the James H. Rudy Professor of Music at Indiana University. Mardirossian served as the concertmaster of the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and was professor of violin at the University of Central Arkansas.
Oleg Vyacheslavovich Bezuglov – is a Russian violinist, chamber musician and teacher, co-founder of the violin and piano duo Class&Jazz. The Honored Worker of the Russian Musical Society since 2010.
Jonathan Leshnoff is an American classical music composer and pedagogue.
David Radzynski is an American classical violinist and concertmaster.