Christian Ferras - Ravel Tzigane

Christian Ferras (June 17, 1933 -- September 14, 1982) was a French violinist. Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father, who was a pupil of Marcel Chailley. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi in 1941, and in 1943 obtained the First Prize. In 1944 he went to the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1946 he won the First Prize in both disciplines (violin and chamber music), and started his performing career with the Pasdeloup Orchestra under Albert Wolff, and later Paul Paray. He worked with Romanian violinist and composer George Enescu, who also acted as an instructor. The Violin Concerto by Federico Elizalde was premiered by Ginette Neveu in Paris in 1944,[1] but Christian Ferras gave its London premiere under the direction of Gaston Poulet, in the presence of the composer,[2][3] and made the world premiere recording on November 7, 1947, when he was aged only 14.[4] In 1948 Ferras won First Prize at the international Scheveni