A celebrated soloist and chamber musician, Guy Braunstein is a guest at the world’s most important music centres and festivals. He has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London and the Berlin Philharmonic. His musical partners include András Schiff, Zubin Mehta, Yefim Bronfman, Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Ax, and Semyon Bychkov. As a conductor, he works with several orchestras and was Conductor and Artist in Residence with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Symfoniorkester. In the romantic tradition of Paganini and Liszt, he brilliantly transcribes musical masterpieces and presents operas, chamber music or songs in a completely new form. Guy Braunstein grew up in Tel Aviv and began playing the violin at the age of seven. He studied with Chaim Taub and later in New York with Glenn Dicterow and Pinchas Zuckerman and his mentor Isaac Stern. In 2000, he became the youngest violinist in the orchestra’s history to take over the position of concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. Guy Braunstein plays a violin made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1679.