and recognition Premio Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena Diapason d’Or Grand Prix du Disque (twice) Gramophone Award Edison Award (twice) Cremona Music Award In May 2006, Mintz received an honorary doctorate from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel for his international artistic contributions. Discography Mintz maintains an active recording schedule as both soloist and conductor for Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, RCA Victor, Avie Records and Challenge Records. Recordings: J.S. Bach: Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001 – 1006, Deutsche Grammophon Bartok: 2 Portraits, Deutsche Grammophon Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1, RN Beethoven: Violin Concerto and the two Romances, Deutsche Grammophon Brahms: Complete Violin & Viola Sonatas, Avie Records and Magnatune Brahms: Violin Concerto, Deutsche Grammophon Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor, Deutsche Grammophon (first recording, together with Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor) Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor, Ravel: Violin Sonata, Franck: Violin Sonata in A, Deutsche Grammophon Dvořák: Violin Concerto, Deutsche Grammophon Fauré: The two Violin Sonatas, Op. 13 in A & Op. 108 in E minor, Deutsche Grammophon Israel Philharmonic: 60th Anniversary Gala Concert, RCA Victor Kreisler: Selected violin works, Deutsche Grammophon Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Vieuxtemps: Concerto No. 5 and Saint-Saëns: ‘Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso’, Deutsche Grammophon Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Deutsche Grammophon (first recording, together with Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor) Mendelssohn: The two Violin Sonatas, Deutsche Grammophon Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for Violin and Viola, K. 364, RCA Victor Mozart: The five Violin Concertos, Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat and Concertone, Avie Records (also on Magnatune) Paganini: The 24 Caprices for violin solo, Op. 1, Deutsche Grammophon Prokofiev: The Violin Concertos, in D major and G minor, Opp. 19 & 63, Deutsche Grammophon Prokofiev: The two Violin Sonatas, in F minor and D major, Opp. 80 & 94a, Deutsche Grammophon Shostakovich: Violin Sonata Op.134 & Viola Sonata Op. 147, Erato Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Deutsche Grammophon Stravinsky ‘Histoire du Soldat’, Valois Vivaldi: ‘The Four Seasons’ (Il Cimento dell' Armonia e Invenzione: Violin Concertos 1-4), Deutsche Grammophon Vivaldi: Complete Violin Concertos (in 10 vols.), MusicMasters Classics.* See also List of violinists Music in Israel References Further reading Jaques Cattell Press (Ed.): Who's Who in American Music. Classical. First edition. R. R. Bowker, New York, 1983. Boris Schwarz: Great Masters of the Violin. From Corelli and Vivaldi to Stern, Zukerman and Perlman. Simon and Schuster, New York,