Education
He graduated from the Imperial Conservatory of Odessa at 14, where he studied with Alexander Fiedeman. From 1910 to 1913, he attended the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he studied with Adolph Brodsky.
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Career
After graduation, he took up a teaching post at the Imperial Conservatory of Odessa, and remained there until 1920. In 1921 Blinder embarked on a concert tour in Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Leningrad, Moscow, and various other places and in 1926 went on a more extensive tour which included the Republic of Turkey, and Palestine, and returned to Russia by way of Siberia in January 1927. Instead of returning to Russia, he went to the United States (via Honolulu and San Francisco) to record for Columbia Records in New New York
The Blinder family remained in New York and Naoum taught at the Juilliard School between 1929 and 1931.
At the invitation of Issay Dobrowen in 1931, Blinder accepted the concertmaster position at the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, where he also played under Pierre Monteux and Enrique Jorda. He remained with the orchestra until 1957, and was a soloist with many orchestras around the country.
Blinder was a noted violin teacher as well. His most prominent student was one of the most critically acclaimed violinists of the twentieth century, Isaac Stern.
Other noted students were David Abel, Austin Reller, and Glenn Dicterow, who was the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.
Blinder died in San Francisco on November 21, 1965, of heart failure, aged 76 years. Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, violin 1753c ex-Rauer 1933
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, violin 1774 ex-Blinder
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, violin 1845-1850 ex-Blinder.
Membership
At one time, he had 17 students in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and all the members of the first violin section of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra were Blinder students as well.
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