A student of Ivan Galamian, Nathan Milstein and Jascha Heifetz, American violinist Erick Friedman is remembered as one of the most gifted violinists of the twentieth century. Friedman's abilities on

  Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B Minor Op. 61 premiered on this day in 1910, marking one of the pinnacles of his career. The first performance

  Born in 1934 in London, he was the son of violinist Barbara Ensor and Anthony Pini, one of Britain's most distinguished cellists of the early

  Spivakovsky was one of the greats of twentieth-century violin playing, but the direction of his career and some of his unorthodox views on technique have