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Lot Essay
Certificate: Max Möller & Zone, Amsterdam, July 8, 1976, with photographs attached.
Born in Cologne, in 1923, Chaim Storosum began his violin studies as a young child. Separated from his family, after fleeing Germany in the mid 1930s, he continued his formal musical education at the Brussels Conservatory, before moving to Paris. As a member of the Eclaireurs Israelites he survived the occupation of France before immigrating to Palestine in November of 1944. Here he performed and taught the violin. Along with the many other emigrants he became an integral member of the rich and dynamic artist's community in what was to become the State of Israel.
In 1956 Chaim Storosum moved with his young family to the Netherlands where he continued to perform and teach. With his dual passions for both violin performance and Jewish song he founded the Collegium Musicum Judaicum in Amsterdam whose repertoire spanned the deep European-Judaic tradition from pre-Renaissance to the contemporary. The Collegium included a roster of some of Holland's finest musicians and toured throughout Europe for over forty years. Their performances and recordings are celebrated for their lyricism and musicality.
Chaim Storosum continued to play the violin until his death in 2012.
Born in Cologne, in 1923, Chaim Storosum began his violin studies as a young child. Separated from his family, after fleeing Germany in the mid 1930s, he continued his formal musical education at the Brussels Conservatory, before moving to Paris. As a member of the Eclaireurs Israelites he survived the occupation of France before immigrating to Palestine in November of 1944. Here he performed and taught the violin. Along with the many other emigrants he became an integral member of the rich and dynamic artist's community in what was to become the State of Israel.
In 1956 Chaim Storosum moved with his young family to the Netherlands where he continued to perform and teach. With his dual passions for both violin performance and Jewish song he founded the Collegium Musicum Judaicum in Amsterdam whose repertoire spanned the deep European-Judaic tradition from pre-Renaissance to the contemporary. The Collegium included a roster of some of Holland's finest musicians and toured throughout Europe for over forty years. Their performances and recordings are celebrated for their lyricism and musicality.
Chaim Storosum continued to play the violin until his death in 2012.