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Lindsey Stirling (violin pop, electro, dance-pop) Dinesh Subasinghe (pop, Music of Sri Lanka, Baila, Celtic, Chinese, Buddhist music, rock, folk) Alicia Svigals (klezmer) Dave Swarbrick (British/Celtic folk and folk/rock) Sam Sweeney (British/Celtic folk and folk/rock – Kerfuffle, Bellowhead, Leveret, Made in the Great War [4])
The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first decades of the 20th century. Early jazz violinists included Eddie South , who played violin with Jimmy Wade 's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith ; Claude "Fiddler" Williams , who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy.
William Kroll (/ k r oʊ l /; 30 January 1901 – 10 March 1980) was an American violinist and composer. His most famous composition is Banjo and Fiddle for violin and piano . [ 1 ]
By the mid-1980s, country music audiences were beginning to tire of country-pop. Although some pop-country artists continued to record and release successful songs and albums, the genre, in general, was beginning to suffer. By 1985, a New York Times article declared country music "dead". However, by this time, several newcomers were working ...
Marriner conducting in the 1980s. Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of the 18 "Greatest and Most Famous Conductors of All Time".
Violin Solo Sonata No. 1 (1940) -dedicated to Ruggiero Ricci- (I. Praeludium con bravura; II. Cantabile; III. Allegro) Philip Glass "Strung Out", for solo amplified violin (1967) "Knee Play 2", violin solo from Einstein On The Beach; Partita for solo violin (2010/11) -dedicated to Tim Fain- (I. Opening; II. Dance 1; III.
Pointer was married to Chinita and had two daughters and a son; he lived in Brooklyn. After his death, Chinita Pointer founded the Noel Pointer Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing string music education to inner-city students, which is located in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.
Midori Goto (五嶋 みどり, Gotō Midori, born October 25, 1971), [1] [2] who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist.She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982.