Polish Violinist. Born in the town of Radom, 100 km south of Warsaw, he graduated from Warsaw Music Academy in 1931 having studied with Prof. Moritz Frenkel, a pupil of Leopold von Auer. Before World War II, he graduated from the Paris Conservatory having studied violin with Prof. Jules Bucheritlin, the interpretation of music with composer Georges Enescu and chamber ensemble and conducting with the great Pierre Monteux. During the war, he studied composition at the Lyon Conservatory with Prof. Bouffard. He taught the late Henry Marteau's and Jozsef Szigeti's virtuoso performance class as Professor at the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland, was Professor of the Salzburg Mozarteum's International Summer Academy 1960–63 and Professor of the Berlin Music Academy 1963–86. He was soloist, choirmaster and Chief Concertmaster of the French Symphony Orchestra in Lyon 1942–44, Chief Concertmaster of the l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under conductor Ernest Ansermet in Geneva 1944, and, in 1957, was invited by conductor Herbert von Karajan to become First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he held for nearly 30 years. Additionally, he served many years as Chief Guest Concertmaster of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. His mastery of the violin and work as a concertmaster was highly noted by conductors Karl Böhm, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter and other world famous conductors and respected musicians. He participated in numerous concert tours and LP recording sessions. Some of his most notable work is found in recordings of Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra with both Böhm and Karajan, the same composer's Ein Heldenleben with Karajan (recorded twice), Bach's Double Violin Concerto alongside violinist Christian Ferras with Karajan conducting and Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Karajan. He was also a conductor, a Laureate of the International Competition in Scheveningen in the Netherlands from 1948, a Laureate of the Sarasate Prize from 1990, Knight of the Legion of Honor, awarded with the Leopold II Distinguished Service Order, and an awardee of the First Class Federal Cross of Germany. He played the King Maximilian violin made by Antonio Stradivari. The violin was granted to him for use as long as he desired. Very sadly, his mother and sister both died in the Treblinka Concentration Camp.