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I g o r Y u z e f o v i c h

Location:

Baltimore, Maryland

Position:

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Assistant Concertmaster

School:

Peabody Conservatory - BM, GPD

Hometown:

Moscow, Russia

Website:

www.igory.net

Greatest opportunity through music:

The ability to travel the world and see the difference cultures and places. Seeing people's reactions to the music they are hearing is priceless.

The best thing about the violin is:

That it is so versatile. The violin is definitely a singing instrument, but can sound in so many different ways.

How I got started in music:

My father is a musicologist and a violist. One day, when I was 5 years old, he brought a tiny violin home and handed it to me. "This is a violin, and you will play it." - he said. Fast forward 23 years, and here I am!

V i o l i n

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The violin is the soprano voice in the string family. It is held under the chin, resting on the shoulder. The violin has a lovely tone that can be soft and expressive or exciting and brilliant.

The violin got its start in the mid-1500s, largely because it could double a vocal line well and was portable enough to dance with. Violin making flourished from 1650 to 1750 in Italy, particularly in Cremona with Nicolo Amati and his pupils Giuseppi Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari. Instruments by these makers are still the most sought after. As the size of concert halls grew in the 19th century, violins were modernized by creating more pressure on the strings, allowing the instruments to produce more sound to fill those halls.

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