Rochelle Abramson is a violinist in Los Angeles.
She is a first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. [1] She has served as concertmaster of various local orchestras, and currently is concertmaster with the Valley Symphony Orchestra.
She joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in its 1978/79 season. She received two individual artist's grants from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. [1]
Mehli Mehta was an Indian conductor and violinist.
Midori Goto, who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982. In 1986 her performance at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Leonard Bernstein conducting his own composition made the front-page headlines in The New York Times. Midori became a celebrated child prodigy, and one of the world's preeminent violinists as an adult.
Leila Bronia Josefowicz is an American-Canadian classical violinist.
Arnold Steinhardt is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.
Robert Chen is a Taiwan-born violinist who is the Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He received Bachelor's and Master's of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki.
Glenn Dicterow is an American violinist and former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music where he holds the Jascha Heifetz Chair in violin as well as serving as a faculty artist at the Music Academy of the West.
Saschko Gawriloff is a German violinist and violin teacher of Bulgarian descent.
Armen Anassian holds master's degrees in Instrumental Conducting and Violin Performance, and studied in the United States, Armenia, and Germany. His teachers include Rainer Kussmaul, Sidney Weiss, Dorothy DeLay, and conductor Michael Zearott. Mr. Anassian has held Conducting and/or Concertmaster positions with such noted groups as the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra, Freiburg Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra and the Zelt Musik Festival Orchestra. In Los Angeles he has been Concertmaster/Guest Concertmaster with Pacific Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, California Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops, Burbank Symphony, Riverside Philharmonic, Inland Empire Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Glendale Symphony, Symphony in the Glen and the Los Angeles Opera.
Sidney Harth was an American violinist and conductor.
Armen Movsessian is a violin player.
The Valley Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles, California is a community college symphonic orchestra that is associated with Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC). The current music director of the orchestra is Michael H. Arshagouni, who assumed the helm of the orchestra for the 2009/10 season. Dr. Arshagouni is also the current chair of the LAVC Department of Music.
Igor Gruppman is a Ukrainian violinist and conductor. He is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, a position he has held since 2003. In May 2009, Igor Gruppman was appointed by Valery Gergiev to the position of music director of the newly formed Mariinsky Stradivary Orchestra. He currently also is Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Oksana Pečeny is an Ukrainian violinist.
Erich Gruenberg was an Austrian-born British violinist and teacher. Following studies in Israel, he was a principal violinist of major orchestras, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was an international soloist, playing the first performance of Britten's Violin Concerto in Moscow. As a chamber musician, he was leader of the London String Quartet and recorded all Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist David Wilde. He was the lead violinist for The Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Gruenberg taught at the Royal Academy of Music until age 95, influencing generations of violinists.
Kaoru Kakudo was a violinist, born in Japan, who performed internationally in recital and solo orchestral appearances. She was a concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands.
Kathleen Sloan is an American violinist based in Los Angeles, CA and a member of the Sonus Quartet.
Eudice Shapiro (1914–2007) was a violinist, chamber musician and violin professor.
Moni Simeonov is a Bulgarian violinist.
Katia Popov, born in Bulgaria and later living in California, was a violinist, playing as soloist, in chamber music and in orchestras; she was concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Christoph Wyneken is a German violinist and conductor.