Endre Granat
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| Endre Granat | |
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| Born | 20th century Hungary |
| Genres | Classical music, film soundtracks |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Violin |
Endre Granat (born 20th century) is an American violinist.
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Early life and education [edit]
He was born in Hungary.
Granat studied at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
His teachers included Gyorgy Garay, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz.
Career [edit]
Granat is a former assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and a recipient of the Ysaye Medal. Granat has been a frequent participant of the Marlboro Music School and Festival and the Casals Festival.
A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Gothenburg, Seoul National University, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Thornton School of Music.
Granat is noted for his Urtext Records editions of the violin concerti by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Henryk Wieniawski.
For many years one of the leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry, he was the leader for Miklos Rozsa, John Williams, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini and a host of others. Granat was the concertmaster of numerous awards ceremonies of the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards and the Grammy Awards. He has over 2,800 motion pictures to his credit.
Granat has toured and recorded with numerous artists, including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Barbra Streisand, Yanni, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, Hanson and Ricky Martin.
He was concertmaster for many recording studios that made soundtracks for films, including Legally Blonde (2001), Dreamcatcher (2003), The Bourne Identity (2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) and The Simpsons Movie (2007).
See also [edit]
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- List of classical violinists
- List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people
- List of University of Southern California people
References [edit]
- Bio at Connolly
- Bio at University of Southern California Thornton School of Music
- ASCAP 14th annual film score workshop 2002
External links [edit]
- Endre Granat at Allmusic
- Endre Granat at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Endre Granat in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- 20th-century births
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century Hungarian people
- 20th-century violinists
- 21st-century American musicians
- 21st-century Hungarian people
- 21st-century violinists
- American classical violinists
- Cleveland Institute of Music faculty
- Film artists
- Film soundtracks
- Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- Hungarian classical violinists
- Jacobs School of Music alumni
- Living people
- Musicians from California
- Musicians from Cleveland, Ohio
- Musicians from Gothenburg
- Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
- Seoul National University faculty
- Thornton School of Music alumni
- Thornton School of Music faculty
