Education
He is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Gruppman also studied with Jasha Heifetz at the University of Southern California School of Music in Los Los Angeles
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He is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Gruppman also studied with Jasha Heifetz at the University of Southern California School of Music in Los Los Angeles
He is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, a position he has held since 2003. In May 2009, Igor Gruppman was appointed by Valery Gergiev to the position of Music Director of the newly formed Mariinsky Stradivary Orchestra. He currently also is Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gruppman is a native of Kiev, Ukraine.
He made his debut performance at the Kiev Philharmonic Hall in 1967. Gruppman emigrated to the United States with his family in 1979.
Igor Gruppman was the concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony from 1988 to 1995. He also was concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 1998.
In 1997 Gruppman was Guest concertmaster for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Igor Gruppman taught at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program (connected with the Idyllwild Arts Foundation) in Idyllwild, California for twenty consecutive years. In 2003 Gruppman also founded the Gruppman International Music Institute, designed to teach students from all over the world using distant-learning technologies. Starting in 2004 Gruppman served as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gruppman is also currently a professor at Codarts, the Rotterdam Conservatoire.