Dario Sarlo, The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz (Ashgate, 2015). Includes 18 b&w illustrations and 8 music examples. 284 pages, hardback, $109.95.

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Book review

Eitan Ornoy, Levinsky College of Education

Eitan Ornoy is both a violinist and a musicologist. Born in Jerusalem, he has studied the violin with Felix Andrievsky and Arthur Zisserman at the Rubin Academy, Tel Aviv, and continued his studies in the USA with renowned violinist Sergiu Luca who introduced him to the Baroque violin and to the 'historically informed' style of playing. His PhD dissertation later carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the guidance of Prof. Jeohash Hirshberg, has focused on the early music movement. In 2003 he was awarded the British Library's National Sound Archive Edison Fellowship.

As a violinist he has played in orchestras in Israel and in the USA, including the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Grand Opera and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Within the field of musicological research he has focused mainly on the HIP movement and on violin recording analysis, for which he has published articles in journals such as Early Music, Journal of Music and Meaning, Performance Practice Review, Journal of New Music Research and others. Dr. Ornoy serves as associate dean of the faculty of music education at Levinsky College and as lecturer of music at Zefat Academic College.