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List of Professors

Name Years at Michigansort icon Position

Yehonatan M. Berick

2002 - 2013
Associate Professor of Violin

Diana R. Gannett

2001 - 2012
Professor of Music - String Bass

Anthony Elliott

1994 - 2019
Professor of Music (Cello)

Erling Blondal Bengtsson

1990 - 2006
Professor of Music (Cello)

Hamao Fujiwara

1988 - 1992
Associate Professor of Music (Violin)

Paul M. Kantor

1988 - 2002
Professor of Music (Violin)

Lynne A. Aspnes

1985 - 2008
Professor of Music (Harp)

Ruggiero Ricci

1982 - 1987
Professor of Music (Strings)

Jacob M. Krachmainick

1978 - 1990
Professor of Music (Violin)

Francis D. Bundra

1965 - 1992
Professor of Music (Viola)

Angel Reyes

1965 - 1985
Professor of Music (Violin)

Lawrence P. Hurst

1962 - 1986
Professor of Music (Strings)

Jerome M. Jelinek

1961 - 1996
Professor of Music (Cello)

Gustave A. Rosseels

1957 - 1979
Professor of Music

Clyde H
 Thompson

1953 - 1968
Professor of Strings

Oliver Albert Swith Edel

1947 - 1976
Professor of Music

Wassily Besekirsky

1942 - 1947
Professor of Violin

Gilbert Ross

1942 - 1971
Professor of Music (Violin)
First Violinist of the University of Michigan Stanley Quartet

Hanns Pick

1927 - 1954
Professor of Violoncello

Anthony Joseph Whitmire

1912 - 1954
Associate Professor of Violin

Andrew W. Jennings

Professor of Music