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Yehudi Menuhin American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the great violinists of the 20th century. He played the Soil Stradivarius, considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari.

Yehudi Menuhin School Independent day and boarding school in Cobham, Surrey, England

The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. The current director of music is the British classical pianist Ashley Wass. The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, the Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh. It is mainly funded by the Department for Education's Music and Dance Scheme, by philanthropic foundations, by donations and bequests from individuals, and by regular support from the Friends of the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Maxim Vengerov Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor

Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him “one of the greatest violinists in the world.”

Vadim Repin Russian and Belgian violinist (born 1971)

Vadim Viktorovich Repin is a Russian and Belgian violinist who lives in Vienna.

Hephzibah Menuhin

Hephzibah Menuhin was an American-Australian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser.

Nicola Benedetti British classical violinist

Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti is a British-Italian classical solo violinist. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16 and also many other awards. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as Alexei Grynyuk, her regular pianist. Since 2012 she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin. She is the Director Designate of the Edinburgh International Festival, and will become Festival Director on 1 October 2022.

Joel Ryce-Menuhin Musical artist

Joel Ryce-Menuhin was an American pianist, who later became a Jungian psychologist in private practice.

Yaltah Menuhin American poet

Yaltah Menuhin was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet.

Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists International violin competition

The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists is an international music competition for violinists under the age of 22. It was founded by Yehudi Menuhin in 1983 with the goal of nurturing young violinists. In its early years, the competition took place in Folkestone on the south coast of England. Since 1998, it has been held biennially in different cities around the world. Several of the competition's past laureates, including Julia Fischer, Tasmin Little, and Nikolaj Znaider, have gone on to major international careers.

Moshe Menuhin

Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was an American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew.

Marcel Paul Maximin Ciampi was a French pianist and teacher. He held the longest tenure in the history of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and also became head of piano classes at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England.

Aisha Syed Castro

Aisha Syed Castro is a Dominican violinist and a member of the Yehudi Menuhin School orchestra.

Liviu Prunaru Romanian musician

Liviu Prunaru is a Romanian violinist. He serves as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's concertmaster together with Vesko Eschkenazy.

Alberto Lysy

Alberto Lysy was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor.

The Menuhin Festival Gstaad is a music festival founded by the violinist Yehudi Menuhin held every summer since 1957 in the Swiss alpine town of Gstaad, after being asked by the director of tourism to "enhance the summer season with some concerts".

Jeremy Louis Eugene Menuhin is a composer and pianist and the son of violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

<i>West Meets East</i> 1967 studio album by Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar

West Meets East is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in Britain in January 1967. It was recorded following their successful duet in June 1966 at the Bath Musical Festival, where they had played some of the same material.

Gerard Menuhin is a Holocaust denier and activist, associated with the neo-Nazi movement in Germany.

Gordon Back is a Welsh pianist, teacher and music administrator, best known for his association with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the Menuhin Competition, of which he has been Artistic Director since 2002.

Stephen Waarts is an Dutch American violinist. He was the first prize winner in the senior division of the 2014 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in Austin, Texas. He was also the fifth prize winner of the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium.