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Frank Xin Huang (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. Since 2015 he has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. [1] [2] Previous to his position in New York, Huang was the first violinist of the Ying Quartet and a professor of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School of Music, [3] then served as the concertmaster of the Houston Symphony ...
He was one of the founders of the Context chamber group. From 1983 until his death he was a professor at William Marsh Rice University. He died of cholangiocarcinoma in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67. [2] He survived by his wife, Susan Archibald and their daughter, Lily Luca (born in 2006).
In 1959, Fredell Lack began teaching violin at the University of Houston, where she remained on the faculty for 50 years before retiring in 2009. She was the 1982–83 recipient of the Esther Farfel Award, given by colleagues to a single University of Houston faculty member each year.
In addition to teaching in Boston, he served as a professor of violin at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1969, he became a faculty artist at the Sarasota Music Festival. [5] Silverstein performed on a 1742 Guarneri del Gesù. Silverstein married Adrienne Shufro in 1954. They had two daughters and a son.
Baroque violin / Wife of cellist Raphael Wallfisch / [128] Marcovici, Silvia: 1952/01/30: Bacău, Romania: living: Graz, Austria: Romanian: Pupil of Stefan Gheorghiu / 2nd prize Long-Thibaud Competition, 1969 Kavafian, Ida: 1952/10/29: Istanbul, Turkey: living: American-Armenian: Pupil of Ara Zerounian, Mischa Mischakoff and Ivan Galamian ...
Robert McDuffie is an American violinist.He has played as a soloist with many of the major orchestras around the world including those of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota, Houston, St. Louis, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra ...
Todd Portune (1980), former member of Cincinnati City Council (1993–2000); Hamilton County Commissioner (2001–2019) Albert Rees (1943), advisor to President Gerald Ford, former University of Chicago and Princeton economics professor, former Provost at Princeton [38] Moses Fleetwood Walker, first African-American Major League Baseball player
Philip S. Johnson (January 27, 1953 – November 11, 2011) [1] was an American violinist. Though he was a promising talent in his youth, his career never took off. He is now known to have stolen the Ames Stradivarius, a valuable antique violin, from Roman Totenberg in 1980. [2]