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13 DAVID GRIMAL, ITAMAR GOLAN David Grimal, Maxim Vengerov, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Gérard Poulet, Shlomo Mintz, David Garrett, Iosif Ivanov, Vadim Repin, Kyung- Wha Chung, Daishin Kashimoto . . . these are just a few of the many violinists you have played with. The violin is omnipresent in your performing career and your discography. Why is that? Itamar Golan: Before the violin, it was the viola that moved me deeply. In my youth, I was very much influenced by a musician for whom I have immense admiration, Eugene Lehner, the violist of the Kolisch Quartet, whom I had the privilege of meeting. And then the violin gradually entered my life as a pianist – but nothing in my life is planned. First of all, I love the violin repertory, and then I’m fascinated by all the sonorities that violinists can produce, which are so different from one another. For me, it’s the sound of the soul.