Pablo Casals, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Sergio Celibidache, Carlo Maria Giulini, Zubin Mehta and Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he built friendships and musical collaborations. Japan In addition to his teaching at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia Chigiana, he taught at the University of Tokyo in Japan in the 1990s. This arose from the mediation and commitment of Shuku Iwasaki, his assistant at the Chigiana, and of Koko Kato, his student and friend. Brengola had contacts with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Honours and tributes In 2003 the Japanese government bestowed him the honor "Ordine del Sol Levante" (The Order of the Rising Sun) to acknowledge his contributions to classical music in Japan. The title of Commendatore of the Italian Republic was awarded to Brengola by Sandro Pertini, Presidente della Repubblica, in 1982, the honorary citizenship of Siena having been awarded to him in 1980. In 2017, to mark a century from Brengola's birth, the Accademia Chigiana held a concert in his honor in Siena on 10 July, executed by a Quintet formed by Federico Guglielmo and Felice Cusano on violin, Laura Riccardi on viola, Alain Meunier on cello and Anne Le Bozec on piano. A recital in homage to Giuliana Brengola Bordoni was given at the church of S Francesco in Sutri (Province of Viterbo, Italy) on 22 June 2019 by students of the S Rosa da Viterbo Lyceum participating in the Sutri Beethoven Festival masterclasses. References 1917 births 2004 deaths Italian classical violinists Male classical violinists Academic staff of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia 20th-century classical violinists 20th-century Italian musicians 20th-century Italian male musicians Academic staff of Accademia Musicale Chigiana