Violists

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Walter Babiak


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Divertimento Orchestra Conductor Gordon Slater
Composer Walter Babiak
"Movin' in My Heart" (World Premiere)
Fall 2005
Performed with the Kanata Choral Society
Canada

Yuri Bashmet

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János Csaba

Steven Dann

Roberto Díaz

Rivka Golani

Nobuko Imai

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Kazuhide Isomura

Paul Hindemith
1895-1963

Kim Kashkashian

Niccolò Paganini
1782-1840

Age 12
 His first public concert performing the Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto at St. Andrews Hall, Glasgow, 1916


Early 1940's
First violist of the NBC Symphony Orchestra

William Primrose
1904-1982

Thomas Riebl

Lionel Tertis
First advocate of the viola as a solo instrument
Tertis played a particularly large viola
 in an attempt to get an especially  rich tone from his instrument

Emanuel Vardi

Robert Vernon

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Pinchas Zukerman

American Viola Society

Canadian Viola Society

2006 International
Viola Congress

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