| Biography | Hyman Bress (30 June 1931, Cape Town, South Africa - 30 October 1995, Montreal, Canada) was a Canadian violinist. He is known for having recorded the violin concertos of Joseph Joachim and Ernest Bloch, probably the first to do so, among many other obscure works. In the 1960s Bress recorded a series of five records for Folkways Records entitled The Violin, covering material from the Baroque to the Twentieth Century and included one of his own electronic compositions the Fantasy for Violin, Piano, and electric tape. In New York, circa 1962, he presented his Fantasy while the score of the piece was being shown on a large screen as it was being played one of the first instances of a multi-media concert presentation. |