Zakhar Bron (Violin)Zakhar Bron (1947), prizewinner 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 Tchaikovsky 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 and the Musikhochschule in Lubeck. Also he has gave master classes at the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Reina Sofia School in Madrid, and so on.
Now he is a professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zurich. 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 Bron is a regular guest in Jury’s of the international violin competitions and holds the post of honorary professor at institutes in the world.

