THE USUAL SUSPECTS

ENDRE GRANAT

Endre Granat has been chosen by the greatest Hollywood composers from Miklos Rozsa to John Williams and from Henry Mancini to James Newton Howard as their concertmaster. He has been concertmaster at the Emmy, Grammy and Academy Awards and countless television shows from Hawaii Five-0 to Jag.

His solo and symphonic activities on four continents include performances with conductors such as George Szell, Sir Georg Solti and Zubin Mehta. He collaborated with composers such as Zoltan Kodaly, Gyorgy Ligeti and Luciano Berio, whose Sequenza #8 he premiered.

He is a Laureate of the Queen Elizabeth International Competition and recipient of a Grand Prix du Disque. He was a Fulbright Scholar and was chairman of the Fulbright Committee.

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BRUCE DUKOV

WEBSITE: www.brucedukov.com

New York City born, Bruce Dukov was trained at the famed High School of Music & Art, and the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with the renowned Dorothy DeLay. There, he received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, graduating with Juilliard's highest award for excellence on the violin. Among his numerous awards, he received a U.S. Government "Fulbright" Grant for overseas study in England, the prestigious Kosciusko Foundation Wieniawski Prize, and first prize in the 1973 National Young Artist Competition in America. Former teachers include, Nathan Milstein, Szymon Goldberg, and Wybo van Biemen. He has also coached with Itzhak Perlman, Yehudi Menuhin, and Charles Treger.		For the 80th birthday celebration of his mentor Nathan Milstein, Mr. Dukov composed a special duet entitled "HAPPY BIRTHDAY VARIATIONS" (in the style of Paganini and Wieniawski, for violin duet) which he performed at the gala with Itzhak Perlman and others. He has since recorded this work, playing both parts. Returning to America to live in 1985, Dukov chose to settle in Los Angeles, where he also twice appeared on the "Merv Griffin Show" performing selections from his solo CBS "pop" album DEPARTURES. Most recently, the L.A. Times, in reviewing Mr. Dukov's performance of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", called him "a fiddler for all seasons", and praised his "focused energy, ornamental grace...wealth of color and inflection...fluent, passionate playing".
In 1974 he settled in London, which served as a base for his concertizing in Europe and the Middle East. He performed in famous halls such as the Concertgebouw, and recorded radio recitals for most of the major BBC stations in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as the RTE Ireland, AVRO Holland, NDR Germany, NRK Norway and Istanbul Radio. Television appearances were also frequent in England on BBC 1 and 2, LWT, Thames TV and Yorkshire TV. His recitals have brought critics from the likes of the "Times" in London and the "Daily Telegraph" to say; "...sounds like the young Menuhin" and "...the highest degree of virtuosity". He also taught and gave a series of master classes in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and for the Dublin Philharmonic Society.

CLAYTON HASLOP

WEBSITE: www.violinmastery.com

Clayton Haslop joined the professional world of music as a teenager when he was invited by Sir Neville Marriner to join the 1st violin section of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Less than two years later he performed as soloist under his baton in a number of critically acclaimed concerts that quickly established him as one of the leading violinists to emerge from Los Angeles at that time.

In the interim Haslop has traveled internationally both as a soloist and as a member of several recognized ensembles including the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, the New Hollywood String Quartet, and the Haslop/Sanders Duo (violin and guitar). Haslop has served as Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Dallas Opera,
Santa Barbara Symphony, and several festival orchestras.

Living in Los Angeles for most of his career, Clayton has performed on well over 1,000 motion picture titles and currently serves in the capacity of Concertmaster for James Horner (Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, The Mask of Zorro, etc.), Don Davis (Matrix, Jurassic Park III), Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Sky High, Alias, etc.), as well as several other composers.

As a student he was fortunate to spend three years coaching extensively with Nathan Milstein. His other teachers include Eudice Shapiro and George Kast (while a Heifetz and Percy Faith Scholarship student at the University of Southern California), Guido Mansuino, and Sybil Maxwell.

SID PAGE

Sid worked with Van Morrison and with Sly Stone for a while, then settled into a successful career making music for movies and other gigs in Southern California, as a concert master and as a solo violinist. If you've seen ''Little Mermaid,'' ''The Horse Whisperer,'' ""The Green Mile,'' ''The Shawshank Redemption,'' ''October Sky'' or dozens of other movies, you've heard Page make music. He's also concert-mastered a number of live shows for performers including Madonna, George Benson, Willie Nelson, U2, Alanis Morisette and others. "I feel really blessed to be able to make a great living playing music,'' he said, ''and at the same time not having to go on the road all the time. ... I'm really looking forward to this show. Ever since I developed a sense of humor I look forward to everything I do. ... My audiences are usually relegated to the producers, John Williams or somebody, and the rest of the orchestra. Not the same energy as playing for the peeps.''