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...
Andy Zaplatynsky, Violin

Andy Zaplatynsky, Violin

Andy Zaplatynsky, leader of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra since 1981, was a student of Josef Gingold and Ivan Galamian. While assistant concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony, he was coached in many of the solos by Mischa Mischakoff. Since 2005, Zaplatynsky has had...
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...
Xiaolei Ding, Violin

Xiaolei Ding, Violin

Xiaolei Ding, Violin Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studied at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and the the Art Institute of Boston University. A former featured member of the Boston City Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal...
Yehudi Menuhin, Violin

Yehudi Menuhin, Violin

Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) came to international renown with his performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto at age seven, and at fourteen made a now-legendary recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto. He went on to have one of the most distinguished and varied musical...
Olga Kaler, Violin

Olga Kaler, Violin

Olga Kaler is a violin soloist, chamber musician, and faculty member at Chicago’s DePaul School of Music. She has a degree from the Moscow State Conservatory, and is currently taking her doctorate at Northwestern University. Kaler won the Special Prize at the 1990...