Zakhar Bron

Zakhar Bron (Russian: Заха́р Ну́химович Брон [zɐxˈar nʊˈximəvʲitɕ ˈbron]; born 17 December 1947, in Oral, Kazakhstan) is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish descent. He is considered one of the best.

His students have included Vadim Repin,Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov,Vadim Gluzman, Igor Malinovsky, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Soyoung Yoon, Christoph Seybold,Sayaka Shoji and Nikolai Madoyev.

Before he was well-known, he taught privately in Novosibirsk. Since then, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Conservatory of Rotterdam, the Musikhochschule Lübeck and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 1997, he took up a position at the Cologne Musikhochschule.

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Bron

Bron is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

Geography

It lies 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Lyon. It is the sixth-largest suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to its east side.

History

The earliest traces of life in Bron can be found in the cemetery and date from 71 BC. The town as it is today did not take shape until approximately 1812.

August 1944, 109 prisoners of Montluc prison, including 72 Jews, were massacred by the Nazis in what would become "Le Charnier de Bron".

Bron was spared much of the damage caused by the riots in many of France's suburbs in the 1990s, such as in Venissieux and Villeurbanne.

Sights

Bron has a fort (erected between 1872 and 1876).

Transport

Bron is served by the following TCL (Lyon public transport) services:

Bron (cant)

Bron is an argot spoken by itinerant coppersmiths and fabric merchants in Miranda de Avilés (Principality of Asturias, Spain), Fornela (León, Spain) and Auvergne, France.

See also

Bron (surname)

Bron is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: