Endre Granat

Endre Granat
Endre Granat
Born	August 3, 1937 (age 86)
Genres	film soundtracks
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	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

Granat studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest,

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.

Career

Granat is a former assistant

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

.

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

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.

For many years one of the leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry, he was the leader for

Grammy Awards

. 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