Background
Oliveira, Elmar was born on June 28, 1950 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States.
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Elmar Oliveira
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Student, Hartt College Music, Hartford, Connecticut student, Manhattan School Music studied with Raphael Bronstein, Ariana Bronne, John Oliveira Doctor of Music (honorary), Manhattan School Music, 1985.
Career
Elmar Oliveira is a contemporary American violinist. He later continued his studies with Ariana Bronne and Raphael Bronstein at the Hartt College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, where Mr. Oliveira also received an honorary doctorate.
Other honors include an honorary doctorate from Binghamton University and the Order of Santiago, Portugal’s highest civilian honor.
He has served on the juries of some of the most prestigious violin competitions, including the Montreal, Indianapolis, Naumburg, and Vianna da Motta. Elmar Oliveira performs on an instrument known as the “Stretton”, made ca.
1729-1730 by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, and on several other violins by outstanding contemporary makers, including Michael Koeberling and John Young. Before purchasing the Stretton in 1994, Oliveira owned and performed with the 1697 Molitor Stradivarius, which he purchased in 1989.
He is also the first violinist to receive the coveted Avery Fisher Prize in 1983, in addition to capturing First Prizes at the Naumburg International Competition and the Great Britain Dealey Competition.
He was a Grammy nominee for his 1990 Civil Defense of the Barber Concerto with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony. His recorded works for Artek, Angel, Sony Masterworks, Vox, Delos, Interface Message Processor, Naxos, Ondine, Élan, and Melodiya range widely from works by Bach and Vivaldi to contemporary composers. Mr. Oliveira is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida.
