Yehudi Menuhin School
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The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey
, England. It was founded in 1963 by the violin
ist Yehudi Menuhin
.
The School also gives pupils the best musical education any specialist schools can with a number of internationally main teachers, Simon Fischer (violin), Natalya Boyarskaya (violin), Lutzia Ibragimova (violin), Akiko Ono (violin), Ruth Nye (piano) Marcel Baudet (piano), Thomas Carrol (cello), Bart LaFollette (cello), Richard Wright (guitar) and Caroline Emery (double bass). Assistant teachers are well known as well who are Anna Harpham (violin), Lisa Oberg (violin), Marianna Itzman (piano), Prach Boondischulock (piano), Claire Telford (violin) and Anna Menzies (cello). The headmaster is Dr. Richard Hillier, the Director of Music is Malcolm Singer and the President is the Well Known Pianist Daniel Baremboim.
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
, England. It was founded in 1963 by the violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
.
The School also gives pupils the best musical education any specialist schools can with a number of internationally main teachers, Simon Fischer (violin), Natalya Boyarskaya (violin), Lutzia Ibragimova (violin), Akiko Ono (violin), Ruth Nye (piano) Marcel Baudet (piano), Thomas Carrol (cello), Bart LaFollette (cello), Richard Wright (guitar) and Caroline Emery (double bass). Assistant teachers are well known as well who are Anna Harpham (violin), Lisa Oberg (violin), Marianna Itzman (piano), Prach Boondischulock (piano), Claire Telford (violin) and Anna Menzies (cello). The headmaster is Dr. Richard Hillier, the Director of Music is Malcolm Singer and the President is the Well Known Pianist Daniel Baremboim.
Notable former pupils
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- David Angel
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- Leonard Elschenbroich
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- Julian Hallmark
- Tasya Hodges
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- Richard Joo
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- Tasmin LittleTasmin LittleTasmin Little is an English violinist.She studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music, coming to prominence as a string section finalist in the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition...
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