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Mark O'Connor
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Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
(born August 5, 1961 in
Seattle
,
Washington
) is an American classical ,
bluegrass
,
jazz
and
country
violinist
,
fiddler
,
composer
and
music teacher
. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging and critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition. As a teenager he won national
string instrument
championships for his virtuoso playing of the
guitar
and
mandolin
as well as the fiddle. His mentors include Texas fiddler
Benny Thomasson
who taught O'Connor to fiddle as a teenager,
French
jazz violinist
Stéphane Grappelli
with whom O'Connor toured as a teenager, and guitarist
Chet Atkins
.
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