Max rabinovitsj biography

Max Rabinovitsj was just six years old when he learned to play the violin while in hiding from the Nazis in Brussels during the Holocaust.
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Rabinovitsj has extensive experience across Europe and the United States as a concertmaster, conductor, and soloist.

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Thursday’s (5/29) Naples News(Naples, Florida) reports that Max Rabinovitsj has been appointed conductor and artistic director of the Naples Orchestra and Chorus. He takes over from Robert Dale Herrema, director for the past six years, who resigned this spring. “Rabinovitsj has been a prolific teacher as well as a violin soloist, orchestral and chamber musician and conductor…. The Belgium-born Rabinovitsj attended the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music (Belgium) and is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music. In addition to St. Louis and Cincinnati, he has been the concertmaster of the Ottawa (Ontario) Philharmonic, the New Orleans Symphony, the Nice (France) Orchestra and the Gulbenkian (Portugal) Orchestra. In chamber music, he participated at the Marlboro Music Festival for six years, and founded the St. Louis String Quartet, which was in residence at Washington University…. Rabinovitsj has been a professor at Washington University, the University of Texas and the University of Evora (Portugal). He also has taught at the Nice Conservatory (France) and Edgecliff Academy

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Max-imum music: For Max Rabinovitsj, each day's melodic

When Max Rabinovitsj raises his right arm, there's a significance in it few musicians can match. If he's holding a bow, of course, a solid violin performance is about to start, and if there's a baton in hand, good music is in the future. But the ability in that arm has a history behind it:

That he's playing again, and within six months of surgery, is a minor miracle that Rabinovitsj, at age 82, has made happen with daily exercise to strengthen his restored biceps.
That he's playing and conducting with the finesse he has comes from scores of years working for symphonies in New Orleans, Cincinnati and St. Louis, with fellow soloists such as Isaac Stern and with composers such as Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky.
That he is alive to play violin today is thanks to a violinist who was hiding with him during World War II, but who was not so lucky. The young man, who gave young Max his first violin lessons, was caught and executed by the Nazis.

Rabinovitsj, who pronounces his name Ruh-BIN-uh-vits, is using that arm to conduc

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Denison welcomes accomplished guest violinist Max Rabinovitsj to campus and stage. Rabinovitsj has extensive experience across Europe and the United States as a concertmaster, conductor, and soloist. He founded the Trio da Vinci in Europe, which toured across the continent, and conducted numerous well-known great artists.

Rabinovitsj retired to Granville this year with his wife Mary, a harpist, who has connections to the area. Music professor Hanna Hurwitz invited Rabinovitsj to perform and give a masterclass to Denison students.

“It’s just so incredible for our community to have this concert violinist here, and I thought it would be wonderful for him to present a concert at Denison, and work with my students,” Hurwitz said.

Rabinovitsj has a fascinating past, growing up as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Belgium. He survived in hiding during the war and learned the violin from Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians. He has been a professor at Washington University, the University of Texas, and the University of Evora in Portugal.

His experience in different musical