Critically acclaimed for the richness and beauty of tone, elegant phrasing, drive, passion and virtuosity, Igor Gruppman enjoys a career as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. Said the Los Angeles Times: "Igor Gruppman played with the sweet tone of the Russian school, the gracefully arched phrases and the tender expressiveness of Oistrakh or Kogan at their lyrical best." And Strad wrote: "Gruppman has all the role requires; the wistful Magyar touches, the epigrammatic subtlety, warmth and tone, and ideal measure of vibrato and sensitive musicianship."

He studied with Leonid Kogan and M. Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory, and later with Jascha Heifetz. Now concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic and Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, he is a frequent guest leader of such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic, and has worked with conductors such as Solti, Rostropovich, Colin Davis, Eschenbach, Gatti, and Haitink. He has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the major cities of North America, Europe, Israel and New Zealand. He has recorded the "Sinfonia Concertante" and Violin Concerto of Miklos Rozsa, Respighi's "Poema Autunnale," and Berlioz's "Reverie and Caprice."

"An artist of vibrant instinct and disarmingly natural musicianship." (Classical disCDigest)