Bronisław Huberman News
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2022-08-22 14:33:55
Lukas Foss and Ivry Gitlis, 2022
[…] one of her students. Though not especially relevant, but Adele Addison, like Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Grace Bumbry, Jessye Norman, and Maria Ewing, is black.) We also have another centenary: the Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis was born on August 22nd of 1922 in Haifa. His parents had emigrated from Kamianets-Podilskyi in western Ukraine the previous year. Ivry took up the violin at the age of five, and at the age of eight played to Bronisław Huberman, the famous Polish violinist who was visiting Palestine (several years later, in 1936, Huberman founded Israel’s first symphony orchestra, the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, now called Israel Philharmonic). Huberman was impressed and organized a fundraiser to send Ivry to France for further studies. In Paris Gitlis went to the Conservatoire where his teachers were George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud. During WWII Gitlis moved to the UK (which probably saved his life) and performed many concerts […]
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2022-02-01 07:09:19
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2020-12-28 07:00:47
Remembering Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis, the legendary Israeli violinist, has passed away. He was 98. Born in Haifa, Palestine to Russian-Jewish parents, Gitlis began playing the violin at the age of five. His teacher, Elisheva Velikovsky, had been a student of the German violinist, Adolph Busch. (About the same time, a young Zvi Zeitlin studied with Velikovsky). Later, Gitlis studied with Mira Ben-Ami (a student of Joseph Szigeti). The influential violinist Bronisław Huberman opened doors ...
2020-12-24 13:41:25
Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis has died in Paris, aged 98. He received his first violin at the age of five and gave his first concert at age ten. When violinist and founder of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Bronislav Huberman heard Gitlis play, he sent the young violinist to study at the Conservatoire de Paris. Gitlis […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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