Gerardo Ribeiro (born 1950,

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) is a violinist who serves on the faculty of the Bienen School of Music at

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. He studied at the

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under

Ivan Galamian Ivan Alexander Galamian (; April 14, 1981) was an Armenian-American violin teacher of the twentieth century who was the violin teacher of many seminal violin players including Itzhak Perlman and Kyung Wha Chung. Biography Galamian was born in ...

. He previously taught at

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, and the

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. In 2001, Ribeiro received a Recognition Award by the

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. In 2000, he won the highest Civilian Title of "Comendador" from his native Portugal. He serves on the faculty of the

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, and in January 2006 was invited to the Australian String Academy Summer School, held in

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. Ribeiro is a chamber music coach and appears for performance classes at the Midwest Young Artists pre-college music conservatory in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

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