Yfrah Neaman

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yfrah Neaman OBE (Arabic: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿;; February 13, 1923 - January 4, 2003) was a violinist and an eminent pedagogue. He was born in Sidon, Lebanon to Jewish parents from Palestine. He studied in Paris with Jaques Thibaud, and then settled in London where he continued his studies with Carl Flesch and Max Rostal. He taught at the Guildhall School of Music and was artistic director of the Carl Flesch Competition. Among his students were Krzysztof Smietana, David Takeno, Wolfgang David, Sung-Sic Yang, Gennady Filimonov, Mihai Craioveanu, and Radoslaw Szulc. He gave the first performances in Britain of the violin concertos of Walter Piston (1952) and Roberto Gerhard (1955). He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1983.