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Ada Pasternak
Born in Moscow, violinist Ada Pasternak relocated with her family to the United States at the age of 6. It was at that young age that she began studying violin with her aunt, New York Philharmonic violinist Asya Meshberg. She continued her...
Adam Baldych
Adam Baldych - violinist, composer and music producer. Was born in Gorzow Wlkp. (Poland), 18.05.1986. New York City - based. His nickname "Evil" is probably the best word defining his emotioning kind of playing and improvising. In the age...
Alex Yellowlees
Thanks you for taking the time to read my profile. Making music has been one of the great joys and journeys of my life - from Classical to Celtic to Bluegrass and finally into the world of Jazz. I have always loved the melodic sound of...
Alexander Balanescu
Alexander Balanescu, violinist, composer and visual artist was born in Romania, raised in Israel and studied violin at London’s Trinity College of Music and the Julliard school in New York. He returned to London where he worked and...Alfredo De La Fé
Grammy Nominated, Cuban born, New York based, Superstar violinist Alfredo De La Fé is a living musical legend. Born in Cuba on February 6, 1954, Alfredo De La Fé began his musical studies at the fresh young age of six, and by the age of...
Alfredo Triff
Alfredo Triff is a violinist and composer. He studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Havana at age seven, under the direction of Radosvet Bojadieff.
During the 1970's Triff borrowed from contemporary music trends from...
Andrei Matorin
The Boston Globe calls Andrei Matorin an “emerging jazz violinist” and featured him in their Critic’s Picks column twice in 2008. Born in Brazil, Matorin began playing the violin at the age of six after moving to Boston. Three years...Anna Mlinarik
I am a graduate of Pedagogic school in Prague and Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek (major - violin). In 2003 I received a talent scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I studied jazz violin with Rob Thomas and Matt Glaser. I...
Artyom Yakushenko
Little is known of Artyom's origins. He was born somewhere in the Gulag Archipelago, and is believed to be the love child of none other than Solzhenitsyn himself. As a tiny infant, Artyom was smuggled out of captivity inside a violin...Attila Lakatos
I was born in Hungary Budapest 1966 in a musician family. My father also was a violinist and I was five when starting my violin study from him.Later I went to a music school when I was 7 and after I study in the music highschool. My...Benjamin F. Smeall
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Bill Murk
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Find more videos on YouTube, username "billfiddle" Visit the Bill Stewart Quintet www.myspace.com/thebillstewartquintet Started classical violin at the age of ten. --First prize in the Scottish Central Counties Music Festival in 1970,...Bill Stokes
Bill Stokes has worked as a professional musician for 30 years. He was a violinist with the Florida West Coast Symphony from 1976-2000. During this time he was also concertmaster of the Sarasota Pops for 3 years, played with the Vermont...Billy Bang
The violin is hardly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think about jazz, but that's never daunted Billy Bang, one of the instrument's most adventurous exponents. Over the past 26 years Bang's hard-edged tone, soulful sense...Bruce Mallette
Bio not posted on website.Buckley Mills
From child prodigy to mainstream jazz violinist, Buckley Mills is quickly raising the already high jazz standards set by such legends as Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli. At the age of three, Buckley, yearning for his father’s...Carlos Alves "Zingaro"
Carlos Z. has performed with a wide variety of improvising musicians and composers, including: Barre Phillips, Daunik Lazro, Derek Bailey, Joëlle Léandre, Jon Rose, Peter Kowald, John Butcher, Mark Dresser, John Zorn, Roger Turner, Hans...
Carlos Zingaro
Born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal; violin, electronics. Carlos Zingaro undertook classical music studies at the Lisbon Music Conservatory from 1953 to 1965, and during the two years 1967/68 he studied church organ at the High School of Sacred...Carolyn Ohlbaum
Carolyn Ohlbaum is a classically trained violinist, but she also does strolling work and she improvises. Carolyn has studied and performed extensively on violin since age 10. Her vast experience includes orchestral work, chamber music...Catherine Lawson
Catherine has been involved in music her entire life. Her first public performance of an original tune "Ballet Dancers" was during her grade-school assembly and she's been involved in performances ever since. While her 20 years of formal...Catya Maré
Catya Maré is a popular, multiple award winning songwriter, violinist and music producer (world / smooth jazz / orchestral / Celtic new age / electronica / pop) from Denmark who is now living in Los Angeles, California. She has performed...
Cecile Broche
Cécile Broché studied classical music, contemporary music, improvisation, and jazz. She graduated at the Conservatory of Liège and Brussels (Belgium), where she got a First Prize of Violin and a First Prize of Chamber music and...
Charles Burnham
The passion and fire of Charlie Burnham's violin has graced the work of many: Cassandra Wilson, James Blood Ulmer, Steven Bernstein, Susie Ibbara, Peter Apfelbaum, Henry Threadgrill, String Trio of New York, Ted Daniel,Medeski, Martin &...
Christian Howes
Christian Howes has already made an indelible mark and is poised to be a path-finding figure on the contemporary violin. He’s won recognition and kudos from artists and critics alike. Says guitar pioneer Les Paul, with whom Christian...
Csaba Deseö
Violinist Csaba Deseo (1939) studied at Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, got his diploma in 1961. His jazz-career started in the middle of the 1960s, beside concerts in Hungary he soon appeared at international jazz festivals...
Csaba Deseo
Violinist Csaba Deseo (1939) studied at Béla Bartok Conservatory in Budapest obtaining his diploma in 1961. His jazz-career started in the middle of the 1960s, playing concerts in Hungary. He soon appeared at international jazz festivals...
Daniel Davis
Violinist Daniel D Talent is a gift, and Daniel D. discovered his early in life. Since he first drew a bow across the strings of a violin at 12 years old. With his 2012 newly produced album ‘Epic Sounds’, his single ‘Lullaby’...Daniel Gervais
Daniel has been playing the violin since the age of five. He plays a variety of fiddle styles and classical violin. Daniel is currently working towards a B.Mus/B.Ed. at the University of Alberta as well as performing, recording and...Daniel John Martin
Daniel John Martin, jazz violin and vocals, was born in Congleton, England. After spending most of his childhood in Africa (Dakar-Senegal/ Johanesburg- South Africa- for ten years) He came to Paris France Where he continued to study the...
Darrell Looney
Playing the violin since the age of nine, Darrell "D-Funk" Looney works to blend forms of funk, blues and caribbean stylings into a nice meld of grooves that fill out both the ambience and foreground listening modes.David MacKenzie
Classically trained and currently Principal Second Violin in the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, David's 30 year career has seen him take up posts in symphony and ballet orchestras across Europe. However, the last three years has...
David Schulman
Washington City Paper has described David Schulman's music as “spontaneous and completely unique.” Playing his Zeta electric violin through a loop station, David creates layers of strings that shimmer and sway over over...
David Strother
David Strother is an improvising electric violinist and composer in Southern California. His latest CDs, "soundings.live" and "the desert is singing," are available at cdbaby.com and Itunes and other outlets. His recording credits also...
Diane Monroe
Violinist Diane Monroe bridges the traditions of classical composition and jazz improvisation. Monroe’s traditional recital “infused with the blues”, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in the fall of 2005, was...
Didier Lockwood
Didier Lockwood (born February 11, 1956) is a French jazz violinist. He was born in Calais and studied classical violin and composition at the Calais Conservatory. However, his brother Francis made him receptive to forms of music other...Dominique Pifarély
Dominique Pifarély modernized jazz violin, combining extraordinary technical skills with an inclusive idea of music-making. He has been soon very in-demand as a straight jazz player, but was soon in some of the more adventurous groups in...
Duane Padilla
Violinist Duane Padilla began his musical career much in the “traditional” way. Beginning classical violin lessons at age 4, he went on to earn a Masters Degree from Yale University and a Bachelors Degree from Northwestern...Eddie South
Eddie South - violin, bandleader (1904 - 1962) Rarely mentioned now, the violin was an important part of Jazz during it's formative years! It was heard in the earliest New Orleans bands and was present in most all the new 'Dance'...
Elektra Kurtis
Elektra Kurtis is a violinist and composer of Greek origin, leader of Ensemble Elektra. Now a resident of New York City, she has also lived in Poland, Greece and Finland. Elektra has performed with such notable artists as Lester Bowie,....jpg)
Elmira Darvarova
ELMIRA DARVAROVA, Concert Violinist “…Sweet, flexible tone.. “ THE NEW YORK TIMES “… Flawless technique...A night to remember.. “ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE “…Enchantingly...Emily Sun
SHIH- HAN (Emily) SUN (violinist) emilysun81@yahoo.ca A native of Taiwan, Emily began her study of violin at the age of seven. She comes from a family of music. In 1998 she was awarded a full scholarship at the Chinese Culture...Eric Clark
Canadian violinist and composer Eric Kenneth Malcolm Clark is a prolific performer of new and experimental music, as well as an accomplished free improviser. A recent addition to New York, he spent the past two years in LA studying...Ernesto Briceo
jazz and world music violinist from venezuela based in barcelona spain.Indian,flamenco,jazz, and latin influences
Federico Britos
There is no greater proof of the universality of jazz and classical music than that which embodies the career and life work of Federico Britos. This titan of the violin, who is as equally adept within the world of jazz music as he is in...Fiidla
FIIDLA is a London born-NYC raised virtuoso, who plays 10 instruments, especially 1 very funky 5 string violin. A former member of Spaceman Sun Ra's - Arkestra, Fiidla spent time fronting the pop group Surface, and playing on Hip-Hop...
Frederika Krier
FREDERIKA KRIER was born in Timisoara/Romania and grew up in in Forchheim (Bavaria/Germany). She got her first classical violin lesson at the age of 7, studied among others with Silvia Reichhardt (EMI Erlangen) and took lessons with Uwe...
Gabriel Solomon
Violinist Gabriel Solomon made his solo debut with the Calcutta Foundation Orchestra in Calcutta, India, and has appeared as a recitalist in the United States, Canada, and India. He has toured in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and...
Graham Clark
I have been playing jazz on violin professionally since 1982. There is a long list of people I have worked with, including five years with jazz/psychedelic band GONG. Also working in TOOLSHED, with Graham Massey (808State) My last CD...Harry Scorzo
Harry Scorzo studied violin and composition at East Los Angeles College, Immaculate Heart College Conservatory, and privately with Mary Ann Ringold and master teacher Noumi Fischer. He has over thirty years of professional experience and...
Helen Sherrah-Davies
After many years as a noted classical performer and educator in her native Britain, five-string violinist and composer Helen Sherrah-Davies relocated to Boston, graduated from Berklee College of Music Summa Cum Laude (with the “Most...
Helmut Lipsky
Born in Germany, Helmut Lipsky studied violin with Abraham Comfort at the Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland where he received degrees in performance and pedagogy. He continued his studies in New York, working for three years with...Holger Jetter
Holger Jetter started playing the violin at the age of 6. He studied western classical music, principal instrument violin, at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. Further studies with Lynn Blakeslee and Jean-Jacques Kantoroff,...
Hugh Marsh
Electric violinist Hugh Marsh is widely recognized as Canada's leading improvising violinist. He has toured, recorded or played with Bruce Cockburn, Loreena Mckennitt, Peter Murphy, Robert Palmer, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Brecker, Randy...Ingrid Hagel
Estonian violinist. Studied at Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen. Currently living in Copenhagen/Denmark
Ingrid Peters
More to come...Isaias Lubo
Band: Orinoko The band Orinoko is named after one of the largest rivers in South America originating along the southern borders of Venezuela and Brazil. Orinoko is a young international band based in Leipzig, Germany. Its music...
James Sanders
Violinist Sanders leads Conjúnto, perhaps the most adventurous jazz latino band in the country. Moving confidently from Afro-roots to free improvisation, James Sanders and Conjúnto are equally at home at a salsa dance party or on stage...
James Sudakow
James Sudakow is a third generation classically trained violinist and started playing at the age of four. Despite the classical upbringing, he has always gravitated to rock, fusion, jazz, and progressive music.Jane Uitti
Studying jazz violin for the last couple of years - straight ahead, bebop, blues, ballads.
Jason Kao Hwang
Jason Kao Hwang is a composer, violinist and educator, has created works ranging from jazz, classical, “new” and world music. Asian Improv Records recently released EDGE, Mr. Hwang's new jazz quartet, featuring Taylo Ho Bynum(cornet),...
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undisputed master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern music. Ponty was born in...
Jeff Gauthier
Violinist, composer and producer Jeff Gauthier has worked with a wide range of musicians in a variety of creative contexts in a career that has spanned over 20 years. As an improvising violinist, he has performed and recorded with Yusef...
Jenny Scheinman
I grew up in the westernmost house in the continental United States. If you can find it on the map you still might not be able to find it in on the planet. It is at the ocean-end of a small river valley and is home to a rowdy mix of old...
Joe Venuti
Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti is widely regarded as the first great jazz violinist. Born to Italian parents who immigrated to the States; he learned classical violin as a child, the fruits of which can be clearly seen in his exciting melodic and...
John Blake
John Blake, Jr. has been one of the world’s leading jazz violinists for over four decades. A four-time winner of the Down Beat Critics’ Poll Violinist Deserving Wider Recognition category he was also one of the top two...John Ettinger
With three well-received recordings under his name featuring Tony Malaby, Todd Sickafoose, Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff, Art Hirahara, and Pete Forbes, John has also performed and recorded with an array of noteworthy artists over the...
Johnny Frigo
Johnny Frigo was born in 1916 on the south side of Chicago. His earliest gigs were playing string bass and tuba in nightclubs and amusement parks. In the early 1940's, Johnny played bass in the Chico Marx Orchestra. During WWII, Johnny...
Jonathan Russell
Jonathan "Jazz" Russell is a sensational fifteen-year-old jazz violinist from New York City who performs regularly throughout the area. The New York Times has written "When he solos, he embraces his instrument and enters a private cocoon,...Josie Quick
Josie Quick and Tom Carleno founded the acoustic jazz group Perpetual Motion in 1989. Based around the sizzling jazz violin style of Josie Quick, this dynamic instrumental combo will take you on a musical journey that can range from...
Julianne Carney
Julianne Carney is a classically trained, improvising violinist who finds intersections between classical, electro-acoustic improv, hip hop, experimental, gypsy, and arabic sounds. Seeking a global musical language, everyday sounds, sine...
Karen Briggs
Karen's live performances are "electrifying and explosive!" She was born in New York City and raised in Portsmouth, VA where she learned to play violin in a classroom setting at the age of 12. Her playing is strong and indicative of her...
Katica Illenyi
On her concerts she plays classical pieces on the violin, jazz standards, world famous movie soundtracks and evergreens.She was born in Budapest, Hungary, and comes from a classical music family. Her first teacher was her father...
Katt Hernandez
Katt Hernandez has recently moved to Philadelphia, after living in the Boston area for nine years, playing the violin, running spaces, and producing shows. She immediately became involved in performances with Bowerbird, Soundfield, Ars...Ken Ford
Mr. Ford received training from various members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra....he moved on to join the African American Philharmonic Orchestra where he was soon promoted to Concert Master. While with the AAPO, Ken was chosen to...
Leroy Jenkins
Born in Chicago, composer and violinist Leroy Jenkins was one of the most important musicians to emerge from the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), the legendary collective of which he was a member until his...
Lissette Torres
Bachelor of Arts in Music-University of Puerto Rico Master of Music Education-Florida State University Master of Violin Performance-University of Akron Participant at the Texas Tech University Advanced Orchestral Conducting Summer...
Liz Taub
LIZ TAUB plays violin and mandolin in the band. Past bands she played in include Susquehanna River Basin Band, The Hard Times Band, and Stonewall Junction. Her versatile abilities allow her to perform all types of music, from classical to...Loren Leventer
Currently a freelance musician and student at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Loren studied with top violin professors at the University of Michigan before coming to New York three years ago. Loren plays jazz, classical,...Lukasz Czekala
Lukasz Czekala(1979) - violin/electric violin player. A graduate (2006) of Jazz Institute at the Academy of Music in Katowice.
Mads Tolling
"There is a generation of young string players who have come up with equal regard for the Bach Cello Suites and Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced, for Beethoven’s String Quartets and the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Inner Mounting Flame....
Majid Khaliq
Majid Khaliq is a violinist and composer cut from a different cloth. He has been described by legendary musician Wynton Marsalis as having “a unique blend of improvisation, groove and technical sophistication.” Although classically...Mario Forte
French-italian violonist MARIO FORTE was born in 1983. He began the violin at the age of five and studied classical violin in the Nîmes, Perpignan and Montpellier conservatories. It is the encounter with Didier Lockwood that led him to...Mariusz Wojtowicz
Mariusz Wojtowicz (Violin) graduated at The Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, (Master of Music with honors), and Indiana University (Artist Diploma). Awarded bronze medal at the Henry Wieniawski Competition for the Young...
Mark Feldman
After three albums with John Abercrombie--"Open Land", "Cat 'n' Mouse", and "Class Trip"--and the trio recording "Abaton" with Sylvie Courvoisier and Erik Friedlander, this is the first ECM leader date for violinist Mark Feldman. Feldman...Mark OConnor
A product of America's rich aural folk tradition as well as classical music, Mark O'Connor's creative journey began at the feet of a pair of musical giants. The first was the folk fiddler and innovator who created the modern era of...
Mateusz Smoczynski
Mateusz Smoczynski is a graduate of the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. A student of Andrzej Gebski, he made his jazz debut in 1999 in Jazz Camping Kalatowki with the Jacek Namyslowski Quintet. Mateusz has...Matt Holborn
“Amongst other young jazz violinists in the UK, Matt stands out with his instantly recognisable sound, a good use of violin techniques and intelligent musicality.” Tim Kliphuis -Internationally renowned jazz violinist and...
Meg Okura
All About Jazz called her “the queen of chamber jazz,” violin virtuoso Meg Okura has found the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble in 2006. Juilliard trained concert violinist, the composer and jazz violinist has revolutionized the world...Michael Fraser
Michael Fraser is the jazz violinist in Swingamajig, an inspiring father-son duo based in Vancouver, Canada. Although only sixteen years old, Michael plays with the jazz feel of someone who’s been improvising his whole life. He...Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins could be called musically multilingual. Robbins' playing is frequently flavored by any of the styles that he has mastered, Semitic to ascetic, classical or folksicle, swinging Jazz to the high lonely sound of the fiddler at...Michael Zentner
Founding member of Washington DC Art Rock band, The Muffins , The Muffins were hailed as "one of the best progressive rock bands in the USA. ", by the Trouser Press Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock . Toured England and France with British...
Michal Urbaniak
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Mike Khoury
Born in Central Michigan, I studied violin at a young age and switched to electric bass. I played bass in various ensembles from 1987-1999. In 1997, I switched back to violin and have studied extensively since 1999 with the esteemed...
Miles Jaye
Singer, songwriter, Miles Jaye, is a native New Yorker; it is there that he studied music theory and classical violin for more than ten years at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Saratoga School for Orchestral Studies and Brooklyn...Monica Germino
Violinist Monica Germino (USA/The Netherlands) is on the cutting edge of new music. Hailed by The Sunday Times (UK) as a ‘striking presence’ whose ‘virtuosity was exhilarating’, she has premiered innovative works in such venues as...
Nigel MacLean
Filmharmonix was formed by multi genre violinist Nigel MacLean in 1997 as a casual film orchestra to provide services for film composers. In particular, internationally renown film composer David Hirschfelder. Nigel worked in a variety of...
Noel Webb
A soulful urban expression, creating one of the most cutting edge urban contemporary jazz albums for the year 2006 ; a combination of sexy jazz violin over smooth urban and hip-hop beats. "His music celebrates" Los Angeles Times. Noel...
Ola Kvernberg
Ola Kvernberg had his official breakthrough with the band Hot Club de Norvege at the Django-festival in Oslo, winter 2000 - a spontaneous jam session which led to several recordings and full-time touring schedule since then. Finished his...Olivier Manchon
The music of Olivier Manchon is best reserved for very early in the morning or very late at night, in those quiet moments when the air is still. It is a medley of opposites: all at once light and delicate, and murky and deep, filled with...
Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble
Founded by composer/ jazz violinist Meg Okura in 2005, Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble has defined a new genre of music “world chamber jazz” by creating and performing some of the most innovative original music at the highest level. ...Papa John Creach
Papa John Creach - violin Papa John Creach was arguably the best known blues violinist of his century, largely because of his association, not with a blues band, but with psychedelic rockers Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson...paul Anastasio
Paul Anastasio began playing the violin at age nine and he was soon drawn to the sounds of fiddle tunes, bluegrass music and hot swing. In his early 20s Paul began studying jazz violin with the great Joe Venuti. His first job on the road...Paul Bura
He started his musical studies in Amsterdam based Sweelinck Conservarory. Graduated in Brussels Royal Academy of Music, Igor Oistrakh student. In Belgium the BRTN Symphony soloist, and later in the Netherlands, Hilversum Metropol Orkest...Peter Ugrin
Peter Ugrin – violin Aleš Ogrin – keyboards Jan Gregorka – bass Anže Žurbi – drums The story of Artbeaters began in January 2011, when Peter Ugrin (violin) returned from his studies in New York. After the first months of...Ranger & the "Re-Arrangers"
In 2007, our first year as a working band, we played at over 40 festivals and special events in Washington state. Capable of virtuoso playing at a whisper or at a joyful roar, the band’s repertoire includes swing standards, Gypsy...
Rayna Gellert
Rayna Gellert plays her great-grandfather’s fiddle—the same one he was playing in 1917 when, as a Hungarian orchestral musician aboard an ocean liner, he wowed the U.S. Ambassador with a rendition of “The Star-Spangled...Rebecca Zapen
Versatile violinist, vocalist, and songwriter Rebecca Zapen's first musical memory was that of sitting under the baby grand piano as a toddler, her ears filled by the sounds of her mother playing Chopin, Beethoven, and Mozart. Her college...
Regina Carter
Regina Carter combines exciting technical proficiency and improvisation with an aggressive approach to her instrument, adding multicultural influence. Her playing is melodic, yet percussive. "People are only used to hearing violin in...
Rosie Hertlein
Rosie Hertlein violin, voice Staten Island, NY Rosi Hertlein's musical background is divided equally between the worlds of improvisation and contemporary classical music. She began serious study of both violin and piano in the late 70's,...
Roswitha aka Rose Bartu
“I’m very vulnerable on this album,” says violinist, producer, and singer-songwriter Roswitha. “I want to create a shift from negative to empowering messages and inspire people to live their dreams because I know how much strength...
Samuel SavoirFaire Williams
Jazz violin hero Samuel " SavoirFaire " Williams has been performing international venues since age 5 . Upon meeting and performing with the likes of Jazz phenoms Wynton Marselis , Milt Jackson , Kenny Burrell , and Roy Hargrove...Sara Parkins
SARA PARKINS, violinist, is a Grammy award winner for the Best Chamber Music Performance of the complete recordings of the Haydn string quartets, with the Angeles Quartet. Sara is also a prize winner of the Fiscoff National Chamber...Sarah Bernstein
Sarah Bernstein is a violinist, composer, improviser, vocalist and poet. Her original work spans avant-jazz, multimedia performance, chamber music, film scores, sound design, and text/spoken word. She is an active member of the New York...
Scott Tixier
Scott Tixier (born February 26, 1986, Montreuil, France) is a french jazz violinist. He was born in Montreuil and studied a classical violin at Conservatoire de Paris, Then, he has studied the jazz violin with Florin Niculescu and Jean Luc...
Stephane Grappelli
Stephane Grappelli (originally surname was spelled with a 'Y') would have earned himself a place in Jazz History books if only for his important role in the Quintette of the Hot Club of France, featuring the dazzling virtuosity of Django...Steven Vance
Swinging stylist started his jazz ed at the University of Pittsburgh through the annual Jazz Seminar where he met Cellist and educator David Baker. Since then he has been playing gigs in various Jazz and other styles for all types of...
Stuff Smith
In the era of early jazz and swing, the violin was often an instrument that carried a hint of an old-fashioned sound--a suggestion of classical music, of the high-society dance orchestra, of the gypsy café music of Europe. But...tatiana carolina Reif Jacobsz
I'm playing the violin about 15 years, i'm playing in two bands right now, da capo and itzaes. I love jazz and some of my favourite artists are: Marcus Miller, Gino Vannelli, Screaming Headless Torsos, Tom Custer, Tower of Power, George...
Tcha Limberger
Tcha Limberger was born into a musical family of old, with each member playing musical instruments (his grandfather was the legendary Piotto Limberger). His Manouch tzigane father, Vivi Limberger, and his Flemish-born mother Lut Bruyneel...The G-Strings
Stefan Pintev & Rodrigo Reichel, Violin and Bariton-Violin Jan Larsen, Viola Vytas Sondeckis, Violoncello Frank Skriptschinski, double bass The G-Strings The G-Strings have cast aside the boundaries set by classical music. Since its...The Manzana Music School
- Heidi Yoo - Heidi Yoo has seven years teaching experience, and teaches Classical Violin, as well as Fiddle. She studies Violin Performance at San Francisco State University and will graduate in December of this year. She is a member...
Tia Imani Hanna
Tia Imani Hanna: Violinist, Vocalist and Composer
Tia Imani Hanna is a musician who takes listeners from one deep, swelling moment to the next, rarely pausing between chords without inhaling a fresh breath...
Tim Kliphuis
Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis breathes new life into existing styles with his high-energy brand of Classical, Gypsy Jazz, Celtic and World music. His improvised sound is unique and has popular appeal. Classically trained and widely...Tineke de Jong
Tineke graduated at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1990, having studied with István Párkányi. The year before she took part in the autumn and spring courses at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Since then she has been...
Tobias Preisig
Tobias Preisig, born in 1981 in Zurich, was admitted as the first violin student at the “Swiss Jazz School” in Berne at the age of seventeen. In 1998, soloist awards from several festivals in Switzerland. Performances with the...
Todd Reynolds
TODD REYNOLDS (NYC, NY), composer, conductor, arranger and violinist, is a longtime member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project . His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in...
Tomoko Omura
Tomoko Omura is a jazz violinist/composer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Shizuoka, Japan, she began studying the violin at a young age with her mother, and began playing jazz music while studying at Yokohama National...Trina Basu
Coming soon.TruVibe
Webster defines Vibe as a charteristic, aura or spirit that infuses or vitalizes someone or something and that can be instinctively sensed or experienced. This definition provides an introduction to what one can expect when listening to...
Yael Bat-Shimon.
Yael Bat-Shimon, described by The Boston Globe as an “adventurous contemporary violinist” whose improvisational work “draws on her classical training as well as non-Western musical traditions”, has performed for audiences from...Ysanne Spevack
Violinist, string arranger and composer Ysanne Spevack is London-born and Los Angeles-based. Her string arrangements encompass a wide musical terrain spanning jazz, soundtrack, rock, pop and electronica. Clients include the Smashing...Yves Teicher
Born in Liege in Belgium on March 21, 1962, he begins his musical studies at 7 at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. In 1976, he obtains a first prize of music theory. In 1978-79, a first prize of violin. He continues by the superior...
Zach Brock
This year is bringing great things for Zach Brock. After performing at The 2012 Sundance Film Festival in January he headed back home to New York City and made his first recording for the European label Criss Cross Jazz. Featuring an elite...
