Serge Blanc (violinist)

He taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, and edited Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin.

[1] He passed the entrance exam to the Conservatoire de Paris at age ten and studied with Jules Boucherit.

[1] Being of Romanian-Jewish descent, Blanc had to be hidden during the years of Nazi occupation shortly after he passed the entrance exam, by his teacher Jules Boucherit, who was named Righteous Among the Nations for having protected Jews during the WWII.

[3][4] Boucherit and Claude Delvincourt, then the conservatories director and a resistance fighter, still organized public recitals for boy.

He played at the Tanglewood Music Festival organized by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch.

[1] Blanc received several scholarships to the Juilliard School of Music where he also studied conducting with Ivan Galamian, and graduated.

Having studied them for half a century, he published a pedagogical edition with recommendations for phrasing, tempo, fingering, and expression.

Serge Blanc, during the 1940s
Serge Blanc, in December 2011