Zakhar Bron (1947), prize winner in many major international competitions,
among them the International Queen Elizabeth in Brussels and the Wieniawski in
Poznan was born in Uralsk. He started his studies at the Stoliarski School for
Music in Odessa and went on to the Gnessin Conservatory in Moscow where his
teacher was Boris Goldstein. He finally went to the Tschaikovsky Conservatory
where he was admitted to Igor Oistrakh's class and soon became his assistant.
In the past years Zakhar Bron has given concerts all over the world,
performing is major halls like the Wiener Musikverein and the Tokyo Suntory
hall. He has proved himself to be an accomplished pedagogue as well. He has held
positions as a teacher at the Glinka Konservatorium in Novosibirsk, the
Musikhochschule in Lьbeck, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Royal Academy of
Music in London, the Musikhochschule in Cologne and the Reina Sofia School in
Madrid. He travels around the world to give lectures and masterclasses, and many
of his students can be found amongst the winners of the most important
international violin competitions.
Professor Zakhar Bron is considered to be one of the best violin teachers in
the world. Only a few teachers today are in such high demand as Professor Bron,
who is currently working in several highly prestigious institutions around the
world.
Zakhar Bron is a virtuoso violinist, who is famous above all for his
teaching method. His whole life is dedicated to the training of the next
generation of concert violinists (without fatigue, sometimes up to 14 hours a
day!). His reputation as an outstanding violin teacher became established when
his students Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov and Daniel Hope became famous around
the world.
Zakhar Bron started his violin studies at the Stolyarksy School in Odessa,
then continued at the Gnessin Music College in Moscow with Boris Goldstein and
at Moscow Conservatory with Igor Oistrakh, for whom Zakhar Bron also worked as
an assistant. Upon completion of his studies Zakhar Bron performed as a soloist
and started teaching. From 1974 until 1988 he worked at the Novosibirsk
Conservatory. In 1988 Zakhar Bron moved to Germany and since then has been
teaching in various musical institutions across Europe, including the Zurich
University of the Arts. Apart from teaching Zakhar Bron appears frequently as a
soloist and has recorded and released many CDs and DVDs. For his outstanding
work Zakhar Bron has been awarded the highest honors in Russia, Germany and
Spain: in 1998 he received the Verdienstkreuz am Bande der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, in 2001 became a Peoples Artist of Russia, and in 2006 received La
Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio in Spain.
At the Zakhar Bron School of Music Professor Bron is nurturing a new
generation of talented violinists.