Raphaël Oleg (born 8 September 1959) is a French violinist, violist and conductor.
[1] He also attended the lessons of chamber music of Maurice Crut[2] and won his first prizes in 1976.
[1] He perfected his skills with Henryk Szeryng in Geneva, took music analysis classes with Betsy Jolas, and then worked with Pierre Amoyal when he was a laureate of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition (3rd prize, 1977),[1] Christian Ferras, Emmanuel Krivine and Jean-Jacques Kantorow.
In 1984, he was appointed a professor at the Fontainebleau Schools and in 1986, he was the first French to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
He plays on a violin by the Lyon-based maker Jacques Fustier,[4][5] made especially for him in 1987.