Igor Ozim

Igor Ozim (9 May 1931 – 23 March 2024) was a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue. He was based in Salzburg, Austria.

Life and career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At age 5, he started private lessons with , a former student of Otakar Ševčík, at the Academy of Music, Ljubljana. He entered Pfeifer's class at the Academy when he was 8.

In 1949 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. He spent three months at the Royal College of Music learning the Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor under one of its greatest exponents, Albert Sammons,

Ozim returned to his home country to play many concerts. He also toured widely through Europe, the Soviet Union, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East.

He had a repertoire of around 60 violin concertos and many chamber music works. He gave many first performances and was the dedicatee of many works. The Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra are some of the many orchestras he played with.

Ozim died in Salzburg, Austria on 23 March 2024, at the age of 92.