Zakhar Bron

Zakhar Bron (Russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон [zɐˈʃar nuˈximɔwitʃ ˈbrɔn];^[1] born 17 December 1947, in Oral, Kazakhstan) is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish descent. He is considered one of the best.^[2]

His students have included Vadim Repin,^[3]^[4] Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov,^[5] Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Sayaka Shoji and Nikolai Madoyev.

Before he was well-known, he taught privately in Novosibirsk. Since then, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London^[6], the Conservatory of Rotterdam, the Musikhochschule Lübeck and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 1997, he took up a position at the Cologne Musikhochschule.

[edit] Bibliography

The Way They Play. (by Samuel Applebaum and Mark Zilberquit) Book 14. Paganinia Publication Inc., 1986, pp. 65–114

^ Zakhar Bron pronounced in Russian
^ "Being educated by the phenomenal Zakhar Bron is equivalent to winning the lottery", Daniel Hope: Wann darf ich klatschen, 2009, p 148
^ All Things Strings: Cover Story
^ Inaugural Concert Announced
^ Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Maxim Vengerov
^ Unknown author. "Zakhar Bron" (in English). Poland: Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society of Poznan. http://www.wieniawski.pl/zakhar_bron_eng.html. Retrieved 25 August 2011.

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