Endre Granat

Endre Granat
Born	1937 Miskolc, Hungary
Genres	Classical music, film soundtracks
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Violin

Endre Granat (born 1937) is an American violinist.

He was born in Miskolc, Hungary.

Granat studied at the Franz Liszt Academy, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.Granat is a former Fulbright Scholar.

His teachers included Gyorgy Garay, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz.

In 1962 Endre Granat won first prize at the International Competition in Heidelberg and he was a 1967 prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels. He performs on an Italian "Domenicus Montagnana" 1721 violin.

Granat is a former assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and concertmaster of the Pacific Symphony. He is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and a recipient of the Ysaye Medal. Granat has been a frequent participant of the Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festival.

A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Gothenburg, Seoul National University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California.

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