Background
Daniel Heifetz was raised in Southern California, the son of Doctor Milton Heifetz and Betsy Heifetz (née Baron), and began violin studies at the age of six.
Daniel Heifetz was raised in Southern California, the son of Doctor Milton Heifetz and Betsy Heifetz (née Baron), and began violin studies at the age of six.
His career spans more than 40 years and has been focused on education and the art of communication through performance. At sixteen, became a student of Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was also coached by Jascha Brodsky and, upon Zimbalist"s retirement, concluded his studies with Ivan Galamian.
He made his New York orchestral debut at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center in a performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra. was also mentored at the beginning of his career by both the Polish/Mexican violinist Henryk Szeryng, who introduced him to the Russian violinist David Oistrakh.
lieutenant was Oistrakh who introduced him to the impresario Sol Hurok who took under management. Mr. was a prizewinner in both the Merriweather-Post Competition in Washington, District of Columbia and The International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
After the latter competition, donated his prize money to the families of jailed dissidents Alexander Ginzburg and Natan Shcharansky. Richard L. Thornburgh, former United States Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania, held a state dinner to honor the gesture.
Mr. has served as professor of violin at three major universities: The Peabody Instituteof the Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Maryland College Park.
In addition to these positions, Mr. has given master classes all over the world. In May 2015, he was one of the featured Masterclass presenters at the Starling-Delay Violin Symposium held at the Juilliard School in New New York The International Music Institute In 1996, Daniel founded the International Music Institute for talented young musicians from around the world.
lieutenant is primarily a six-week summer program that now takes place at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. The institute attracts top faculty from national and international conservatories and offers a program in Performance and Communication Training that teaches young musicians to communicate the emotion of music by way of a series of classes in public speaking, voice, drama, movement, and freedom of expression.
The Institute offers career development opportunities to its alumni through a program called on Tour. In November 2014, described his philosophy behind the communication training offered at the Institute in a TEDx presentation given in Charlottesville, Virginia.
