Iranian-born Armenian violinist Ivan Galamian died on this day in 1981 – aged 78.
A student of French pedagogue Lucien Capet, he is remembered as one of the most influential violin teachers of the 20th Century – his famed students including Itzhak Perlman, Pichas Zukerman, Michael Rabin, Dorothy DeLay, Kyung-wha Chung, Charles Castleman, Eugene Fodor, Miriam Fried, Erick Friedman, Dong-Suk Kang, Ani & Ida Kavafian, Jaime Laredo and Donald Weilerstein.
