Endre Granat

Granat is a former assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, concertmaster of the Goteborg 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.^[4] Granat has been a frequent participant of the Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festival.^{[citation needed]}

A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Goteborg, the Cleveland Institute of Music, California State University at Northridge, and the University of Southern California.^[4]

Granat is noted for his Urtext editions of violin concerti by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Henryk Wieniawski as well as The Essential Sevcik. Granat is editor for the Heifetz Collection that include urtext editions of Heifetz' favorites as well as the Urtext Edition of Paganini 24 Caprices and THE HEIFETZ SCALE BOOK.^{[citation needed]}

For many years one of the leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry, he was the leader for Miklos Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini, Hans Zimmer and a host of others. Granat was the concertmaster of numerous awards ceremonies of the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards and the Grammy Awards.^[5] He has over 2,800 motion pictures and thousands of television shows to his credit.

Granat has toured and recorded with numerous artists, including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Barbra Streisand, Yanni, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, and Ricky Martin.^{[citation needed]}

He was concertmaster for many recording studios that made soundtracks for films, including Ghostbusters (1984), Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996), Starship Troopers (1996), Anna and the King (1999), Legally Blonde (2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Dreamcatcher (2003), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), Peter Pan (2003), The Terminal (2004), Transformers (2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), The Simpsons Movie (2007), and Frozen (2013).^{[citation needed]}

• Endre Granat at AllMusic
• Endre Granat at IMDb