Violin Top 10 schools

 

 

 

 

1. Juilliard School

Department website: violin 

Notable Faculty: Itzhak Perlman Donald Weilerstein Joseph Lin Ida Kavafian The Juilliard String Quartet 

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2. Manhattan School of Music 

 

 

Department website: Strings

Notable Faculty: Pinchas Zuckerman Curtis Macomber Glenn Dicterow Albert Markov 

                              Laurie Smukler The American String Quartet 

Notable Strings Alumni 

 

 

3. Cleveland Institute of Music

 

Department website: Violin 

Notable Faculty: Jaime Laredo Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler Joan Kwuon Stephen Rose 

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4. Curtis Institute of Music

 

Department website Strings 

Notable Faculty:  Ida Kavafian Aaron Rosand Pamela Frank Shmuel Ashkenasi Arnold Steinhardt 

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5. Colburn School

 

Department website: Strings 

Notable Faculty: Robert Lipsett Arnold Steinhardt 

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6. Bard College- Conservatory of Music

 

Department website: Conservatory of Music 

Notable Faculty: Laurie Smukler Arnold Steinhardt Any Kavafian Weigang Li 

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7. Rice University Shepherd School of Music

 

Department website: Strings 

Notable faculty: Paul Kantor Cho-Liang Lin 

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8. New England Conservatory

 

Department website: Violin 

Notable faculty Miriam Fried Paul Biss Soovin Kim Donald Weilerstein

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9. USC Thornton School of Music

 

Department website: Strings 

Notable Faculty:  Midori Goto Glenn Dicterow Suli Xue 

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10. Northwestern University Bienen School of Music

 

Department website: Strings

Notable Faculty: Gerardo Ribeiro Robert Hanford Yuan-Qing Yu Blair Milton 

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