Daniel Guilevitch

French violinist (January 10, 1899, Rostov, Russia - October 1990, New York City). He shortened his name in 1941 to Daniel Guilet after immigrating to the US. In the 1950s he was concert master of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and also a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio which he left in 1969. He was born at Rostov-on-Don in the Russian Empire and raised in Paris, where his family moved when he was less than a year old. His teachers at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) included George Enescu and Guillaume Rémy. He played in Quatuor Calvet and toured France with Maurice Ravel playing his accompaniments. In 1941, he immigrated to the U.S. to avoid Nazi persecution as a Jew, and shortened his name to Daniel Guilet.