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Lionel Young |
| Born in Rochester, New
York, Lionel Young began taking violin lessons at the age of six
with Anastasia Jempelis at the Eastman School of Music. His family
moved to Pittsburgh where he studied violin with Herbert Greenburgh,
who was the associate concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony
then and is the concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony now. He
won a music scholarship to the University of Indiana where he studied
with Josef Gingold. He came back to Pittsburgh and went to Carnegie-Mellon
University to study violin with Fritz Seigal, the Concertmaster
of the Pittsburgh Symphony and served as Concertmaster at University
orchestra for two years, one of which was with Keith Lochhart who
is now the conductor & music director of the Boston Pops. He
was a member of the Pittsburgh Opera-Ballet Orchestra and the National
Repertory Orchestra which commissioned him to play bluegrass and
blues for their summer festival and on a tour of Japan, Taiwan,
and Korea during the 1988 Summer Olympic Music Festival. Throughout his career, Mr. Young has won numerous awards including: The Young Artist Award (Pittsburgh Symphony); The Concerto Contest (Carnegie-Mellon); The Passamenic Award (Branchwood String Quartet); and the award for the Best Blues Band in Westword's Best of Denver in 1989 for his band The Last Fair Deal. In 1992 he won a position with The Denver Chamber Orchestra and premiered a solo piece by William Hill with them in 1994. Also, he won another award for Best Blues Band in Westword's Best of Denver in 1996 and 1997 for his current band, The Lionel Young Band. The Lionel Young Band has released it's first CD, "As the Sun Goes Down" in December 1997. The release has received excellent reviews regionally & nationally. Among others he's played in concerts with Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Paige/Robert Plant, Doc Severenson, Linda Ronstadt, Living Color, Billy Taylor, Woodie Herman, Stanley Turrentine, Homesick James, Homer Brown, Hamlet Bluiett, Chief Bae, and Johnny Long. |
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