As the year draws to a close, we’d like to take the time to remember those remarkable musicians whom we lost from our community in 2018.
Former Juilliard String Quartet violinist and pedagogue Robert Mann - aged 97 [PICTURED]
Brazilian-born American cellist and pedagogue Aldo Parisot – aged 100
Scottish composer & conductor Oliver Knussen – aged 66
Soviet-born conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky – aged 87
Dutch violinist and pedagogue Herman Krebbers - aged 94
Polish-Australian violinist Wanda Wilkomirska - aged 89
Former Guarneri String Quartet violist Michael Tree - aged 83
Venezuelan El Sistema Youth Orchestra founder and activist Maestro José Abreu – aged 78
Italian luthier and instrument maker Giovanni Battista Morassi - aged 84
American violinist, conductor and pedagogue, Anshel Brusilow - aged 89
Israeli-born American violist and pedagogue Rami Solomonow - aged 68
American violin pedagogue and children's music teaching book author, Ms Shirley Givens
Montreal International Music Competition President and Co-Founder André Bourbeau - aged 81
Polish-born American violinist Anna Karkowska - aged 36
French contemporary music composer, pianist and percussionist Alain Kremski – aged 78
Hawaiian-born composer and educator Dennis Kam – aged 76
Greek-born composer and conductor Theódoros Andoníou – aged 83
Canadian-American musical theatre composer and pianist Galt MacDermot – aged 89
Spanish conductor Juan José Olives
Soviet-born New York-based violinist Nina Beilina – aged 81
American conductor, composer and percussionist Harold Farberman – aged 89
Indian-born British violinist, violist, conductor and composer Levine Andrade – aged 64
Australian conductor Richard Gill – aged 76
Brazilian violist Diemerson Sena – aged just 33
Spanish violin maker and author Ramon Pinto – aged 89
American cellist Eric Dahlin
Experimental Japanese composer and violinist Takeshita Kosugi – aged 80
French violist Claude Ducrocq
American violinist Naira Cola – aged just 37
Polish pianist and composer Piotr de Peslin Lachert – aged 80
Dutch violinist Xander Wadman – aged 64
Chinese violinist Zhongguo Sheng – aged 77
Argentinian–American violinist and conductor Rubén D’Artagnan González – aged 79
Australian string instrument maker and luthier Robert Ditterich – aged 65
Italian conductor and composer Claudio Scimone – aged 83
American double-bassist Paul Harris – aged 64
Romanian-born cellist and pedagogue Nicolae Sarpe – aged 81
Renowned Israeli composer and conductor Noam Sheriff – aged 83
African American composer George Theophilus Walker – aged 96
University of Rochester Eastman School of Music former Dean of Students, Paul Burgett – aged 72
American violinist Rebecca Lynch – aged 93
American violist Detlev Olshausen – aged 100
Two-time Emmy award winning composer and conductor Glen Roven – aged 60
American violinist and conductor Edward Simons – aged 101
Soviet-Russian balalaika virtuoso Mikhail Fedorovich Rozhkov – aged 99
Russian cellist and pedagogue Andrey Demin - aged 68
Polish cellist Dominik Połoński - aged just 41
German conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg – aged 71
New York-based violinist and conductor David Bousso – aged just 34
Hungarian conductor and composer Frederic Balazs – aged 98
German conductor Hanns-Martin Schneidt – aged 87
English-born American conductor and composer Andrew Massey – aged 72
Hungarian-born composer, pianist, oboist and conductor Georg Arányi-Aschner - aged 96
Bulgarian-born Los Angeles-based violinist Katia Popov – aged 50
German composer, theologian, musicologist and college professor Dieter Schnebel – aged 88
Legendary Russian Concertmaster Yuri Zagorodnyuk
British violinist, teacher and conductor Paul Mountain - aged 68
American conductor Jonathan Sternberg - aged 98
Danish composer Søren Hyldgaard - aged 55
American composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue Donald Keats - aged 88
American-born pianist and accompanist Irwin Gage - aged 78
Czech violist and pedagogue Milan Škampa - aged 89
Polish-born American violinist Newton Mansfield - aged 88
Chinese conductor and flutist Maestro Han Zhongjie - aged 97
Italian-born American violinist Lucio Rossetti - aged 106
American conductor, violist and composer Hugo Vianello – aged 92
Long-time Cornell University Department of Music cello and viola da gamba pedagogue John Hsu - aged 86
Russian violinist Grigory Yakovlevich Geigin - aged 80
South African cellist Philip De Groote - aged 68
American classical and jazz double bassist and cellist Buell Neidlinger – aged 82
American conductor Irwin Hoffman - aged 93
Respected Russian cello pedagogue Alla Vasilieva - aged 84
American Broadway violinist and hair stylist Blair Lawhead - aged 55
Prominent African-American contemporary composer and musicologist Dr Olly Wilson - aged 80
German violinist and pedagogue Axel Wilczok - aged 66
Former Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish National Orchestra violinist Bob Simians
Armenian-born violinist Serguei Azizian - aged 60
Acclaimed American musical theatre composer Harvey Schmidt - aged 88
Spanish conductor Jesús López Cobos - aged 78
Hungarian film score composer and violinist László Melis - aged 65
American cellist and composer Jody Ellis - aged 92
Belarusian-born Canadian accordion virtuoso Alexander Sevastian - aged just 41
French jazz fusion, rock and electric violinist and composer Didier Lockwood - aged 62
Veteran American artist manager Lee Lamont - aged 86
French cellist Jean Grout - aged 92
Golden Globe-winning Icelandic classical, ambient and experimental music composer Jóhann Jóhannsson - aged 48
Respected Australian cellist and pedagogue Nelson Cooke - aged 98
British period instrument pioneer, cellist Caroline Brown - aged 64
American modernist, experimental 12-tone composer, Professor Alan Stout - aged 85
Parisian luthier René Quenoil - aged 96
Irish composer and pianist Daniel Barkley - aged just 28
Italian violist and violinist Luigi Alberto Bianchi - aged 72
Australian composer and conductor Dr Colin Brumby - aged 84
19-year-old British double bassists Alex Ross and Siân Chambers
Colorado State University Professor of Music, bassoonist Gary Moody - aged 62
Los Angeles-based American tenor Andres Ramirez – aged just 28
American pianist Gabriel D’Abruzzo – aged 42
American opera singer Kristine Ciesinski - aged 65
American composer and retired college professor Kenneth Jacobs
New York-based composer, french-hornist and new-music advocate Matt Marks - aged just 38
Russian alto saxophone soloist Matvey Sherling - aged 18
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Stockholm City Theatre, Benny Fredriksson, - aged 58
African-American double bassist Draylen Mason - aged just 18
American bassist, engineer and luthier Kenny Bosco - aged 34
Rest in peace, and thank you.
