Zakhar Bron is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish descent. He is considered one of the best. His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Gluzman, Igor Malinovsky, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Christoph Seybold, Sayaka Shoji and Nikolai Madoyev. Before he was well-known, he taught privately in Novosibirsk. Since then, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Conservatory of Rotterdam, the Musikhochschule L�beck and the Escuela Superior de M�sica Reina Sof�a in Madrid. In 1997, he took up a position at the Cologne Musikhochschule. 

December 17th, 1947 in Oral (Age 76)