Endre Granat
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Endre Granat | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 3, 1937 |
| Genres | Classical music, film soundtracks |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Violin |
Endre Granat (born in Hungary in August 3, 1937) is an American violinist. He is regarded as the most recorded violinist and concertmaster working in the studios today.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Granat studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Granat is a former Fulbright Scholar.
His teachers included Gyorgy Garay, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz.
In 1962 Endre Granat won first prize at the International Competition in Heidelberg and he was a 1967 prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels. He performs on an Italian "Domenicus Montagnana" 1721 violin.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Granat is a former assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and concertmaster of the Pacific Symphony. He is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and a recipient of the Ysaye Medal. Granat has been a frequent participant of the Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festival.[citation needed]
A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Gothenburg, Seoul National University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California.
Granat is noted for his Urtext editions of violin concerti by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Henryk Wieniawski as well as The Essential Sevcik. Granat is editor for the Heifetz Collection that include urtext editions of Heifetz' favorites as well as the Urtext Edition of Paganini 24 Caprices and THE HEIFETZ SCALE BOOK.[citation needed]
For many years one of the leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry, he was the leader for Miklos Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini, Hans Zimmer and a host of others. Granat was the concertmaster of numerous awards ceremonies of the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards and the Grammy Awards.[2] He has over 2,800 motion pictures and thousands of television shows to his credit.
Granat has toured and recorded with numerous artists, including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Barbra Streisand, Yanni, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, and Ricky Martin.[citation needed]
He was concertmaster for many recording studios that made soundtracks for films, including Ghostbusters (1984), Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996), Starship Troopers (1996), Anna and the King (1999), Legally Blonde (2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Dreamcatcher (2003), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), Peter Pan (2003), The Terminal (2004), Transformers (2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), The Simpsons Movie (2007), and Frozen (2013).[citation needed]
See also
[edit]
- List of classical violinists
- List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people
- List of University of Southern California people
References
[edit]- ^ "Sheet music by Endre Granat", stretta-music.com
- ^ "Connolly Artist". August 16, 2007. Archived from the original on August 16, 2007. Retrieved June 21, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Endre Granat at AllMusic
- Endre Granat at IMDb
| International | |
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- 1937 births
- 20th-century Hungarian musicians
- 21st-century Hungarian musicians
- Male classical violinists
- American male violinists
- Cleveland Institute of Music faculty
- Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- Hungarian classical violinists
- Jacobs School of Music alumni
- Living people
- Musicians from Cleveland
- Musicians from Gothenburg
- Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition
- Academic staff of Seoul National University
- USC Thornton School of Music alumni
- USC Thornton School of Music faculty
- Classical musicians from California
- Classical musicians from Ohio
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians
- 20th-century American classical violinists
- 21st-century American classical violinists