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Famous Violinist's Violins?


Patrick Hu

September 18, 2005 at 06:46 AM · What violins do the "famous" contemporary violinists own? I just wanted to know what "big" violinists are using nowaday.

**I know that Sarah Chang uses a VUILLAUME...NOT a del gesu (she performed here in hawaii in May, and i know the violin repairer/restorer that she went to while she was here, and she played for him and he told me it was a vuillaume)

**Hilary Hahn uses a vuillaume also...when she came to hawaii in 2002, she went to the same repair guy and she had a vuillaume (i saw/met her and she started performing in the shop right there! she performed excerpts of shostakovich, brahms, tchaikovsky, you name it!)

**Joshua Bell has the ex-huberman...

**Perlman has the Soil Strad...and that's all i know... (do you guys know about vengerov's violin? shaham?

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Sarah Chang's violin


December 11, 2006 at 04:15 AM · I've been listening to her playing lately, and was kinda curious as to what bow and violin she uses. I tried Google but couldn't find anything, so I bring my question here. Anyone know?

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May 6, 2011 at 02:47 PM ·

Has anyone seen chang's violin up close? I've gotten to play it and, because of chang's agressive style of playing, there are lots of bow-scratch marks on her violin and lots of scractches from her nails beneath her fingerboard...I THINK it's from her playing, but it was all "restored" marks and cover-ups so i'm not too sure. I think for a while isaac stern played on this violin (which he helped sarah acquire) for fun and I'm sure he played a couple of scratches on that thing.

 

Thanks for saying this!!!

I do think Sarah Chang is the best woman violinist out there and also as wonderful as the masters!  What I like is that she is afraid of nothing and that is not given to many. I am in total admiration for her playing and art! 

I think I like players with a huge sound!  (even if their approch to it is sometimes different)

After having done a few unintentionnal scratches on my beloved violin practicing Rhode studies and high scales...and feeling very guilty about them, I have asked myself if the violin of "powerful soloists" was sometimes scratched unintentionally by them...  I remember having see Oistrakh accidentally hit his violin with his bow on a Shostakovich concerto video.  It made an audible "toc" but who could make a perfect Shosty without any accidents!       

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    • An Interview with Sarah Chang


     Korean-American violinist Sarah Chang is one of the most distinguished and loved violinists now before us.  Admitted to Julliard School of Music before she was 6, and debuting with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra all by age 11, she has performed and recorded with the world’s greatest orchestras for almost two decades.  She was the winner of the coveted Avery Fisher Prize in 1999.  Lord Yehudi Mehuhin declared her to be ‘the most wonderful, the most perfect, and the most ideal violinist I have ever heard’.  She records exclusively for EMI Classics and her over 20 CD’s provide a truly inspired guide to the violin concerto repertory.

    1. I WAS VERY LUCKY TO SEE ONE OF YOUR EARLY BARBICAN (LONDON) CONCERTS IN 1995 OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY CONCERTO UNDER SIR COLIN DAVIS AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. DO YOU STILL HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF THESE CONCERTS WHEN YOU WERE SO YOUNG?

     Yes, certainly, it was the beginning of a long relationship.  In fact, I have returned to the Barbican almost every year since my London debut in 1992.  I do remember how supportive and what a gentlemen Sir Colin was and how great it was to play with the LSO.  The Barbican now truly feels like one of my ‘homes’.  When you perform in so many different cities, you need performing environments that you know really well and can just relax in.  I find the same thing of course in Philadelphia, where I grew up and presently live, and also in Los Angeles and Berlin.

    2. ARE YOU STILL ON YOUR EXHAUSTING SCHEDULE OF OVER 100 CONCERTS A YEAR? WHEN DO YOU REST AND WHEN DO YOU HAVE TIME TO LEARN NEW WORKS?  

    I don’t really rest.  I now take Christmas off, decorating the tree with my family, and so on, but this is recent.  After the regular concert season, the summer festivals are so important to me since I can play many different and ne

    Sarah Chang

    Korean American violinist (b.1980)

    For other people known as Sarah Chang, see Zhang Qiang (singer) and Sarah Chang (actress).

    Musical artist

    Sarah Chang (Korean: 장영주; born Young Joo Chang; December 10, 1980) is a Korean American classical violinist. Recognized as a child prodigy, she first played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989. She enrolled at Juilliard School to study music, graduated in 1999, and continued university studies. Especially during the 1990s and early to mid-2000s, Chang had major roles as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras.

    Early life and education

    Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Cherry Hill and Voorhees Township, New Jersey. Her mother Myoung-Jun Chang is a composer and her father Min-Soo Chang was a violinist and music teacher. Chang's parents moved to the United States from South Korea in 1979 for her father's advanced music degree at Temple University. Her mother took composition classes at the University of Pennsylvania. Chang has said that although she "never actually lived in Korea... I do still feel very strongly it's where my roots are." Her younger brother Michael (born 1987) has a degree from Princeton University. In 1986, when Chang was 5 years old, she auditioned for and was accepted to the Juilliard School by performing the BruchViolin Concerto No. 1 in G minor. Chang spent her weekends attending music classes at Juilliard and shopping in New York City with her parents. When Chang was 6 years old, she started studying with Isaac Stern outside school. In 1989, she began working with Dorothy DeLay at her studio in New York where her father had received his musical lessons, and at the Aspen Music Festival and School. A former student and assistant to DeLay,