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Violinists we love in London 

Welcome to some violinists playing in London this year 

Alina Ibragimova

Russian

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Started playing violin at age 4

Gnessin School of Music

Yehudi Menuhin School

Anne-Sophie Mutter

German

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Started playing violin at age 5

Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Grammy Awards

Chloë Hanslip

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Started playing violin at age 2

Yehudi Menuhin School

Studied with Zakhar Bron

Christian Li

Chinese Australian

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Started playing violin at age 5

Australian National Academy of Music

Menuhin Competition

Daniel Hope

South African

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Started playing violin at a young age

Yehudi Menuhin School

Royal Academy of Music

Daniel Lozakovitch

Swedish

One of todays more sought after violinists. He leaves both audiences and critics spell bound . He was invited to perform at the state dinner at the Palace of Versailles on 20 September 2023 during Charles III's state visit to France and he performed with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France at the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame in 2024

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Born in Stockholm, he started playing violin aged 7 debuted within 2 years

Studied at the Hochschule fur Musik Karlsruhe under Professor Josel Rissin from 2012 to 2021 and mentored bby Eduard Wulfson in Geneva since 2015

First Prize in 2016 Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition and Young Artist of the Year 2017 at the Festival of Nations

Lozakovich now regularly performs with leading orchestras and the world’s eminent conductors including Adam Fischer, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Järvi, Cristian Măcelaru, Kazuki Yamada, Vasily Petrenko, Lahav Shani, Tugan Sokhiev, Dina Slobodeniouk and Lorenzo Viotti. Highlight performances in North America are with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Klaus Mäkelä, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and The Philadelphia Orchestra led by Nathalie Stutzmann, Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons and Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. A highly sought-after recitalist, Lozakovich performs his recital debut at the Grand Hall of The Concertgebouw this season and next season in Carnegie Hall.

Seen playing Prokofiev Violin Concerto no 2 and then as an encore Bach Sonata in D minor Op 27 No 3 Ballade that was a tour de force of violin virtuosity

David Garrett

German

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Started playing violin at age 4

Juilliard School

Echo Klassik Awards

Gidon Kremer

Latvian

One of the worlds most recognised violinists he has also written about music and founded the Kremerata Baltica

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Started the violin aged 4. Both his parents were accomplished violin players. His father was Jewish and had survived the Holocaust

Two years later he began his studies with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory with David Oistrakh who was a violinist, composer, and professor.

Aged 16 Gidon was awarded the First Prize of the Latvian Republic. Gidon Kremer went on to win a series of prestigious awards, including prizes in the 1967 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and 1969 Montreal International Music Competition and first prize in both the 1969 Paganini and 1970 Tchaikovsky International Competitions.

In 1980, he left the USSR and settled in Germany. In 1981, Kremer founded a chamber music festival in Lockenhaus, Austria, with a focus on new and unconventional programming, serving as artistic director for 30 years until 2011. He also made regular appearances at the Verbier Festival until the summer of 2011, when he publicly criticised the perceived 'star culture' aspect of the festival and withdrew from the festival. His partners in performance include Valery Afanassiev, Martha Argerich,[5] Mikhail Pletnev, Oleg Maisenberg, Vadim Sakharov, Mischa Maisky, Yo-Yo Ma, Clemens Hagen, Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, Yuri Bashmet, Kim Kashkashian, Thomas Zehetmair, Tatiana Grindenko and Per Arne Glorvigen.

Gidon Kremer has made over 120 albums In 2015 Deutsche Grammophon/. Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica’s recording of Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No 2 was a lnadmark. To mark the 70th birthday of the violinist, Deutsche Grammophon issued 22 CDs of the complete recordings of violin concertos

Hilary Hahn

American

She has played solo Bach pieces every day since she was eight

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A musically precocious child, Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore's Peabody Institute. She studied using the Suzuki method until she was 5

She studiedin Baltimore under Klara Berkovich from 1985 to 1990. On December 21, 1991,[13] at age 12, Hahn made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.[14] Soon thereafter she debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra,[15] Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. In 1996, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, playing Saint-Saens's third violin concerto. Hahn has played with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra,[25] New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 she debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and played in Vatican City as part of the celebrations for Pope Benedict XVI with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Dudamel.[26][27] The concert was recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon.[28]

A three-time Grammy Award winner

In 2020, Hahn and AI roboticist and tech entrepreneur Carol E. Reiley cofounded DeepMusic.ai to work with artists and AI companies to amplify human creativity. Hahn is a noted champion of new works. In 1999 she commissioned Edgar Meyer to write a concerto. She later recorded the piece with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.[42] In 2010 a concerto written for Hahn by Jennifer Higdon and recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music. She commissioned 26 contemporary composers to write short encore pieces for In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores. Among the composers are David Del Tredici, Jennifer Higdon, Du Yun, Elliott Sharp, David Lang, Nico Muhly, James Newton Howard, Valentyn Silvestrov, and Max Richter.[44] For the 27th encore she held an open contest that drew more than 400 entries and was won by Jeff Myers. The international premiere tours, from 2011 to 2013, met with wide critical and audience acclaim.[46][47][48] In November 2013 these 27 short pieces were released on Deutsche Grammophon.[49] The recording won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Hahn began her film recording career as the soloist for James Newton Howard's score for M. Night Shyamalan's The Village in 2004. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.[51] The film uses the piece's second movement to accompany a nine-minute sequence.[52] In 2013, she was the soloist on Andrew Hewitt's score for the film The Sea.[53]

Isabelle Faust

German

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Nicola Benedetti

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Started playing violin at age 4

Yehudi Menuhin School

BBC Young Musician of the Year

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