Igor Gruppman
Igor Gruppman ( born July 4, 1956 in Kiev) is a violinist and conductor. He is since 2003 the chief conductor of the Orchestra at Temple Square in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA). In May 2009, Igor Gruppman by Valery Gergiev appointed as artistic director of the newly founded Mariinsky Orchestra Stradivary. He is also currently concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Work
Gruppman was in the Kiev Philharmonic debut in 1967. He completed his studies at the Moscow Conservatory; there he studied with Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Later Jascha Heifetz was his teacher at the USC School of Music in Los Angeles.
In 1979 Gruppman emigrated with his family to the USA where he married his wife, Vesna Stefanovich - Gruppman that he had met in Moscow while studying.
Igor Gruppman was concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony by 1988 until 1995. He also worked as concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra between 1995 and 1998. Moreover, it he was Associate Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra.
He won the 1993, together with his wife, a Grammy Award for the recording of Malcolm Arnold's Concerto for Two Violins, Op 77
Igor and Vesna Stefanovich - Gruppman Gruppman taught from 1997 to 2003 at Brigham Young University. 1997 Gruppman was guest concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
He taught, moreover, twenty years each episode at Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in California.
In 2003, Grupp Mans Gruppman International Violin Institute founded with the aim to teach through the use of new technologies such as Skype world regardless of time and place students and pupils.
2004 Igor Gruppman was appointed concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Gruppman has been a professor for violin at CODARTS, the Rotterdam Conservatory, held.