Ivan Galamian

Ivan Alexander Galamian (; April 14, 1981) was an Armenian-American violin teacher of the twentieth century who was the violin teacher of many seminal violin players including Itzhak Perlman and Kyung Wha Chung.

Biography Galamian was born in Tabriz, Iran to an Armenian family. Soon after his birth, the family immigrated to Moscow, Russia. He studied with Konstantin Mostras (a student of Leopold Auer) at the School of the Philharmonic Society from 1916 to 1922. He was jailed at age fifteen by the Bolshevik government. The opera manager at the Bolshoi Theatre rescued Galamian; the manager argued that Galamian was a necessary part of the opera orchestra, and subsequently the government released him. Soon thereafter he moved to Paris and studied under Lucien Capet in 1922 and 1923. In 1924 he debuted in Paris. He became a faculty member at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff where he taught from 1925 to 1929. His earliest pupils in Paris include Veda Reynolds, the first woman in Philadelphia Orchestra's first-violin section, and Paul Makanowitzky.

In 1937 Galamian moved permanently to the United States. In 1941 he married Judith Johnson in New York City. In 1944 he founded the Meadowmount School of Music, a summer program in Westport, New York. The school has remained operational and has trained thousands of world-class musicians. Galamian taught concurrently at Curtis, Juilliard, and Meadowmount schools. He did not retire and maintained an active full-time work schedule. He died at the age of 78 in 1981 in New York City. His wife subsequently took on an active role in managing the Meadowmount School. Arve Tellefsen Sally Thomas Gwen Thompson Andor Toth Charles Treger Ismael Vazquez Robert Vernon (musician) Donald Weilerstein Rebekah Yoon Pinchas Zukerman

Edited works Bach, Concerto No. 1 (A minor). New York: International Music Company, 1960. Bach, Concerto No. 1 (D minor). New York: International Music Company, 1960. Bach, Concerto No. 2 (E major). New York: International Music Company, 1960. Bach, Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. New York: International Music Company, 1971. (Includes facsimile of the original) Brahms, Sonatas, Op. 78, 100, 108. New York: International Music Company. Bruch, Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46. New York: International Music Company, 1975. Conus, Concerto in E minor. New York: International Music Company, 1976. Dont, Twenty-four Etudes and Caprices, Op. 35. New York: International Music Company, 1968. Dont, Twenty-four Exercises, Op. 37. New York: International Music Company, 1967. Dvořák, Concerto in A minor, Op. 53. New York: International Music Company, 1975. Fiorillo, Thirty-six Studies or Caprices. New York: International Music Company, 1964. Galaxy Music Company, 1963 and 1966. Gaviniés, Twenty-four Studies. New York: International Music Company, 1963. Kreutzer, Forty-two Etudes. New York: International Music Company, 1963. Mazas, Etudes Speciales, Op. 36 Part 1. New York: International Music Company, 1964. Mazas, Etudes Brilliantes, Op. 36 Part 2. New York: International Music Company, 1972. Paganini, Twenty-four Caprices. New York: International Music Company, 1973. Rode, Twenty-four Caprices. New York: International Music Company, 1962. Saint-Saëns, Caprice, Op. 52, No. 6. New York: International Music Company. Sinding, Suite in A minor, Op. 10. New York: International Music Company, 1970. Tchaikovsky, Three Pieces, Op. 42. New York: International Music Company, 1977. Vivaldi, Concerto in A minor. New York: International Music Company, 1956. Vivaldi, Concerto in G minor, Op. 12, No. 1. New York: International Music Company, 1973. Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Op. 3, No. 11. New York: International Music Company, 1964. Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Violins in A minor. Piccioli-Galamian, New York: International Music Company, 1956. Vieuxtemps, Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Op. 37, New York: International Music Company, 1957. Wieniawski, Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22. New York: International Music Company, 1957. Wieniawski, Ecole Moderne, Op. 10. New York: International Music Company, 1973.

Publications

The book principles of violin playing and teaching is translated to several languages in the world. Chinese version is done by Professor Peter Shi-xiang Zhang, Spanish by Renato Zanettovich, Persian by Dr. Mohsen Kazemian.