10 Facts About Olive Zorian

Olive Nevart Zorian was an English classical violinist.

Olive Zorian was the youngest daughter of Samuel Hovannes Zorian and Ada Mary Zorian.

Olive Zorian continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

Olive Zorian then studied violin with Georges Enescu in Paris and with Szymon Goldberg in Amsterdam.

Olive Zorian was a distinguished violinist in the Julian Bream Consort, which was responsible for a revival of Elizabethan music.

Olive Zorian made recordings with both those groups as well as with the Zorian Quartet.

Olive Zorian's own playing was not virtuosic, though she could most capably negotiate things like Mozart concertos, the first fiddle-parts of Britten, Bartok and Tippett, as well as Stravinsky's Duo Concertant.

Olive Zorian died of cancer in hospital in London in 1965.

Olive Zorian's name is inscribed in the Book of Remembrance in the Musicians' Chapel at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London.

For many years Olive Zorian played on a 1721 Gagliano violin, which upon her death was bequeathed to the daughter of Athur Catheral, her former tutor, to whom it originally belonged.