Joshua Coyne, Violin

Joshua Coyne, Violin

Joshua Coyne plays classical music, jazz, gypsy, opera, and broadway. He began studying violin at age four and has been performing in public since he was eight. He also plays piano, saxophone, mandolin, viola, and guitar, and is active as a composer, arranger, and...
Nicholas Crosa, Violin

Nicholas Crosa, Violin

Nicholas Crosa won the gold medal at the 1998 Stulberg International String Competition and was first prize winner in the 1997 Nakamichi Foundation Paganini violin concerto competition. A student of Carol Sindell in Portland, Oregon, and Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard...
Laura Motchalov, Violin

Laura Motchalov, Violin

Laura Motchalov won Second Prize at the Corpus Christie International Concerto Competition in 2001, then in 2003 joined the first violins of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her teachers include William Preucil, Linda Cerone, Zvi Zeitlin, and members of the Ying,...
Cho-Liang Lin, Violin

Cho-Liang Lin, Violin

Cho-Liang Lin is internationally renowned as a violin soloist, chamber musician, and more recently, an orchestral conductor. He has recorded for Sony Classical, Decca, Ondine, Naxos, and won Gramophone’s Record of the Year and two Grammy nominations. Born in Taiwan in...
Erick Friedman, Violin

Erick Friedman, Violin

Erick Friedman (1939–2004) was one of the 20th Century’s most distinguished violinists. He studied with Galamian, Nathan Milstein, and then after beginning his concert career, with Jascha Heifetz, with whom he recorded the Bach Double Concerto for RCA. In 2000...