Ilona Fehér

Ilona Feher or Ilona Fehér (Hebrew: איילונה פהר, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfɛheːr ˈilonɒ]; 1 December 1901 – January 1988), was one of the representatives of the Hungarian Violin School whose greats include Joseph Böhm, Joseph Joachim, Jakob Grün, Leopold Auer, Jenő Hubay, Carl Flesch, Joseph Szigeti, Tibor Varga, Sandor Vegh, André Gertler, Kato Havas, Paul Rolland and Geza Szilvay.

Other violin teachers of her early years were Joseph Bloch, Josef Smvilovitch (also a pupil of Jenő Hubay) and Imre Pogany.

Her 250 pupils include some of the most outstanding violinists such as Pinkas Zukerman, Shlomo Mintz,[1] Hagai Shaham, Ittai Shapira, Moshe Hammer and Yehonatan Berick, chamber music players Shmuel Ashkenasi and David Ehrlich as well as orchestra musician, Ron Ephrat (Principal Violist Rotterdam Philharmonic), Yaakov Rubinstein (Concertmaster of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra) and conductor Yoel Levi.

In addition to teaching at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, Feher held master classes all over the world.

In a concert which was designed as a celebration of Isaac Stern's 65th birthday in Carnegie Hall, she was honored by King Solomon Award of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.