question: Salvatore Accardo is known for his interpretations of the works of what Italian violinist, violist, guitarist and composer?
answer: Niccolò Paganini
context: Title: Salvatore Accardo
  Passage: Salvatore Accardo (] ; born 26 September 1941 in Turin, northern Italy) is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his interpretations of the works of Niccolò Paganini.
  Title: Franco Mezzena
  Passage: Franco Mezzena born 4 November 1953 in Trento, northern Italy, is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.  He studied with Salvatore Accardo.
  Title: Donald Heins
  Passage: Donald Heins (19 February 1878 – 1 January 1949) was a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, organist, composer, and music educator of English birth.  He notably founded the first professional orchestra in Ottawa, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the current orchestra of that name), in 1902, serving as its director until 1927.  He also served in a variety of positions with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1927–1949, including concertmaster, principal violist, and assistant conductor.
  Title: Alfredo D'Ambrosio
  Passage: Alfredo D'Ambrosio (Naples, 13 June 1871 – Nice, 29 December 1914 [or Paris, 31 December 1914]) was an Italian composer and violinist.  He studied under Enrico Bossi at the Conservatory "San Pietro a Majella" in Naples, and later with Pablo de Sarasate in Madrid, and August Wilhelmj in London.  He then settled in Nice, and devoted himself to his compositions and his work as a teacher.  His brother Luigi d'Ambrosio was also a violinist and later teacher of Salvatore Accardo.
  Title: Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra (Piston)
  Passage: Walter Piston's Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra was commissioned in 1970 by Mario di Bonaventura, music director of the Hopkins Center Congregation of the Arts at Dartmouth College, who conducted the world premiere on March 11, 1973, performed by the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra with Salvatore Accardo as the soloist.  The commission had been made specifically for Accardo,
  Title: Ohrid Summer Festival
  Passage: The Ohrid Summer Festival is a festival founded on 4 August 1961, always taking place between 12 July and 20 August in the city of Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.  It is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia and sponsors.  The President of the Republic of Macedonia is the patron of the festival.  The festival featured prominent artists since 1961, i.e. José Carreras.  Since 1994, the festival is a member of the European Festivals Association. Many world-renowned musicians like Leonid Kogan, Svyatoslav Richter, Grigory Sokolov, Andre Navarra, Martina Arroyo, Henryk Szeryng, Ivo Pogorelić, Mstislav Rostropovich, Aldo Ciccolini, Gidon Kremer, Ruggiero Ricci, Viktor Tretiakov, Salvatore Accardo, Elena Obraztsova, Katia Ricciarelli, Victoria de los Ángeles, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Julian Rachlin, Michel Camilo, Paul Meyer, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leo Nucci, Barbara Frittoli, Jessye Norman, Nigel Kennedy, Zubin Mehta, Ennio Morricone, Mikhail Pletnev, and many other have performed at Ohridski Leto.
  Title: Niccolò Paganini
  Passage: Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (] ; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer.  He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique.  His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions, and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers.
  Title: Shin-ik Hahm
  Passage: Shinik Hahm (born 1958) is a Korean American conductor and a professor in the Practice of Conducting and Music Director of the Yale Philharmonia.  Hahm has led North American, South American, European, and Far Eastern orchestras.  Recent appearances include debuts in Geneva, Switzerland, and Besançon, France; at Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra; and reengagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Disney Hall.  He is an active opera conductor and has led productions with the Silesian National Opera in Poland, has collaborated with musicians including Salvatore Accardo, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman and has recorded with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Vision and Britstar.
  Title: Diabolus in Musica, Accardo interpreta Paganini
  Passage: Diabolus in Musica, Accardo interpreta Paganini is a 1996 classical music album by violinist Salvatore Accardo playing musical works of Niccolò Paganini.
  Title: Maria Newman
  Passage: Maria Newman (born Maria Louise Newman on January 18, 1962, in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning American composer of classical music, and a critically acclaimed violinist, violist and pianist.  She is the youngest child of Alfred Newman, a major Hollywood film composer.  Maria holds the Louis and Annette Kaufman Composition Chair; and the Joachim Chassman Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture in Malibu, California, and is a founder of the Malibu Friends of Music.  Her library of original works represents a range of genres, from large-scale orchestral works, works for the ballet, chamber works, choral and vocal works, to new collaborative scores for vintage silent film.  She has been presented with many awards and commissions, including musical commendations from the United States Congress (2009), the California State Senate (2009), the California State Assembly (2009), the City of Malibu (2010), and the Annenberg Foundation (2011).
citations: Niccolò Paganini Salvatore Accardo