Background
Gingold was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus), and emigrated in 1920 to the United States where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman in New York City.
Gingold was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus), and emigrated in 1920 to the United States where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman in New York City.
Pupil, Vladimir Graffman, Eugene Ysayë. Doctor of Music (with honors), Indiana University. D.Music honorary, Kent State University.
D.Music honorary, Baldwin-Wallace College. D.Music honorary, Cleveland Institute Music. D.Music honorary, New England Conservatory Music.
At the time of his death he was considered one of the most influential violin masters in the United States with many successful students. He then moved to Belgium for several years to study with master violinist Eugène Ysaÿest He gave the first performance of Ysaÿe"s 3rd Sonata for Solo Violin.
Gingold edited numerous violin technique books and orchestral excerpt collections.
He taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for more than thirty years, until his death in 1995. His pupils included Gil Shaham, Anne Shih, Joshua Bell, Arnold Steinhardt, Shony Alex Braun, Andrés Cárdenes, Corey Cerovsek, Cyrus Forough, Miriam Fried, Endre Granat, Brian Hanly, Ulf Hoelscher, Hu Nai-yuan, Jacques Israelievitch, Ivar Bremer Hauge, Leonidas Kavakos, Chinese Kim, Ronald Lantz, Jaime Laredo, William Preucil, Joseph Silverstein, and Gwen Thompson, Xiao-mei Pelletier (Associate-Principal Violin, Dallas Symphony Orchestra).
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. A detailed literary portrait of Josef Gingold is included in the book, Quintet, Five Journeys toward Musical Fulfillment, by David Blum (Cornell University Press, 1999).
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Gingold died in Bloomington, Indiana in 1995.