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American Masters : God’s Fiddler

Premieres nationwide Thursday, April 16 at 8 p.m. and Friday, April 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)

Film Interviewees (in order of appearance)

Ivry Gitlis , Israeli violinist, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

Itzhak Perlman , child prodigy violinist

Arthur Vered , Heifetz biographer

John Anthony Maltese , Heifetz biographer, Albert Berry Saye Professor and head of the department of political science, University of Georgia

Ayke Agus , child prodigy violinist and pianist, Heifetz’ student, accompanist and longtime companion

Saulius Sondeckis , Lithuanian violinist

Galina Kopytova , Author, Jascha Heifetz: Early Years in Russia

Sergei Stadler , Russian violinist

Nathaniel Rosen , American cellist, former faculty member at the USC Thornton School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music

Ida Haendel , Polish child prodigy violinist

Seymour Lipkin , concert pianist, piano and chamber music faculty member of The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, Artistic Director of The Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and School in Blue Hill, Maine

Marvin Gross , Heifetz’s lawyer for the 40+ years Heifetz lived in Los Angeles

Sherry Kloss , violinist, Heifetz’ student; Heifetz left her his Tononi violin used at his U.S. concert debut at Carnegie Hall (1917) in his will

Endre Granat , leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry (, , , Hans Zimmer, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards), Heifetz’ student

Yukiko Kamei, violinist, Heifetz’ student, assistant and played in chamber music performances with Heifetz and

Jeffrey Solow , American virtuoso, played chamber music with Heifetz’ students, past president of the American String Teachers Association, president of the Violoncello Society, Inc. of New York

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