Lorand Fenyves

Lorand Fenyves (born February 20, 1918 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † March 23, 2004 in Zurich ) was a Canadian violinist and music teacher of Hungarian-Jewish origin.

Fenyves studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest with Oscar Studer , Jenő Hubay , Leo Weiner , Imre Waldbauer and Zoltán Kodály and received his diploma as a musician and music teacher in 1934. He began his career with a European tour and premiered Felix Weingartner's violin concerto in Budapest and Vienna . At the invitation of Bronisław Huberman , he emigrated to Palestine in 1936 and became concertmaster of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (later the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ). In 1940 he was one of the founders of the Israeli Conservatory and founded the Fenyves Quartet with Alice Fenyves , Ödön Pártos and László Vincze , which existed until 1956 (from 1948 under the name Israel String Quartet ).

In 1957 Ernest Ansermet brought him to Geneva as concertmaster of his Orchester de la Suisse Romande , where he also taught at the Conservatory. From 1963 he gave annual violin courses at the Canadian Orford Art Center and founded the Oxford String Quartet with Gilles Lefebvre , Andrew Dawes and Kenneth Perkins . In 1965 he was visiting professor at the University of Toronto . In the following year he moved to Toronto and taught at the university until 2004, from 1983 as professor emeritus. From 1985 he also taught at the University of Western Ontario . His students included Adele Armin , Otto Armin , Steven Dann , Victor Martin and Erika Raum .

From 1966 to 1977 Fenyves was the conductor and violin teacher of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada . He also taught at the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory of Music and gave master classes in Aldeburgh, at the Cornwall International Seminar of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music , at the Toho School in Japan and from 1985 also in Hungary. As a soloist he has appeared under conductors such as Leonard Bernstein , Ferenc Fricsay , Seiji Ozawa and Carl Schuricht and with musicians such as Béla Síki , György Sebök , Menahem Pressler , Anton Kuerti , Patricia Parr , Pierre Souvairan and Lydia Wong ; he was also active as a chamber musician well into old age.

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SURNAME	Fenyves, Lorand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian violinist and music teacher of Hungarian-Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 2004
Place of death	Zurich