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.
