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The Jackson Guldan Co. of Columbus, Ohio [1] was a manufacturer of stringed musical instruments, operating in the first half of the 20th century.Most notably, the company produced violins, fiddles, and violas [2] as its primary product.
The First Prize winner in the Senior category also receives a one-year loan of a "golden age" Stradivarius violin. The First Prize winner of the Junior category receives a one-year loan of a "fine old Italian violin". [2] The 2016 competition had 44 competitors—37 girls and seven boys. [1]
Ambi ranked first at the [citation needed] Board Royal School of Music's violin exams, which he took in 2005. He also received distinctions in piano and Western music theory, and was the three-time winner of the Philomena Thumbochetty Award for Best Western Classical Violinist.
The Golden Swans' name serves as a nod to the program's 50-plus-age students and golden 50-year anniversaries, plus the famous ballet "Swan Lake."
Gregg T. Alf (born 1957 in Los Angeles) is a prominent contemporary American violin maker based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.. Alf made his first violin in 1975. Later, he spent eight years in Cremona, Italy, where he graduated from the International Violin Making School and established a growing reputation for his work.
The first owner of record was Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, an award-winning luthier, who found the violin in Spain in the 1860s. He sold the instrument to Lady Anne Blunt, the daughter of Ada Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron. In the 1890s, W.E. Hill & Sons bought the violin from her and sold it to an important collector.
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In 2006 Oleg Bezuglov was invited to join the string quartet AnarchY, that was founded and directed by Azerbaijani violinist Anar Yusifov. This group was one of the main contributors to the show-project "Golden Violin", which premiered in the Rostov State Musical Theater (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) in September, 2007.