Tanya Kalmanovitch, Viola

Tanya Kalmanovitch, Viola

Tanya Kalmanovitch, Jazz violist and violinist, has been named “Best New Talent” by All About Jazz. Her 2007 recording “Heart Mountain” won the prestigious Choc award from French magazine Jazzman. Kalmanovitch teaches at the New England Conservatory, the...
Alfonso Lopez, Violin

Alfonso Lopez, Violin

Alfonso Lopez, violinist, composer, & conductor, is concertmaster of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra (OSV), Professor of Violin at the Emil Friedman School, and founding member of the Friedman String Quartet. His orchestral work, Caribe Pirana, was premiered in...
Geoffrey Silver, Violin

Geoffrey Silver, Violin

Geoffrey Silver performed the Sibelius Concerto while in his mid-teens, led the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for two years, and won the Royal Academy of Music’s principal violin prize playing Bach and Paganini. He has since performed extensively as a...
Elmar Oliveira, Violin

Elmar Oliveira, Violin

Elmar Oliveira, renowned soloist and recording artist, won a gold medal at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1978 – and remains the only American to have done so. He began violin at age nine with his brother John, then studied with Ariana...
Sarah Crocker Vonsattel, Violin

Sarah Crocker Vonsattel, Violin

Sarah Crocker Vonsattel has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2008, following tenures in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. A founding member of the Verklärte Quartet (Grand Prize winners at the 2003 Fischoff Competition),...
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...