Philippe Hirschhorn

Philippe Hirschhorn was a Soviet violinist. He won the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1967, where he played Paganini violin concerto number 1 among other pieces. His first prize was beyond doubt. It is said that the jury was almost unanimous. He finished before Stova Milanova and Gidon Kremer. Among the jury were Arthur Grumiaux, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh. He was a violinist with an unrivaled technique and a hypnotic presence. He possessed a deeply felt and electrifying musicality. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he was born in Riga, Latvia and first studied at Darsin music school in Riga with Waldemar Sturestep. Later he studied with Michael Waiman at the Conservatoire of St. Petersburg. Hirschhorn played concerts in Europe, America and Japan with orchestras conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Uri Segal, Eugene Ormandy, Yury Temirkanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gary Bertini, Ronald Zollman, among others. He played together with Roger Woodward, Elisabeth Leonskaya, Martha Argerich, James Tocco, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Frederic Meinders, Hans Mannes, Brigitte Engerer and more. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)