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Kamhi, David  

Amra Bosnić

(b Sarajevo, 1936). Bosnian and Herzegovinian violinist. He graduated in the violin at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo in 1962, after which he completed the Masters Degree in 1964. During the period 1965–7 he had further studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the David Oistrakh Violin Department in the class of professor Olga Kaverzneva. He specialized at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome (1970, 1973).

In 1955 he was employed as a teacher of the violin at the Srednja muzička škola (‘music high school’) in Sarajevo. In 1962 he started his engagement at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo, where he remained as an assistant professor (starting in 1971), associate professor (1977), and full professor (1984) in the violin and violin pedagogy. Due to a shortage of relevant teaching staff, he was entrusted with the subjects of the viola and chamber music. From ...

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King (Adeyoyin Osubu), Peter  

Barry Kernfeld

(b Enugu, Nigeria, 1938). Nigerian alto saxophonist and educator. Raised in southeastern Nigeria, King began his career as a percussionist with the trumpeter, saxophonist, and singer Roy Chicago (John Akintola Ademuwagun) in Ibadan. There, and in Lagos, he subsequently played double bass, drums, and, finally, alto saxophone. In 1961 he moved to London to study music, including a period at the Trinity College of Music. With the drummer Bayo Martins and the trumpeter Mike Falana he formed the African Messengers in 1964. They played at festivals and nightclubs in England and accompanied Motown stars, including the Four Tops, the Temptations, and Diana Ross. Among their recordings was the hit song Highlife Piccadilly (c1964, Carnival 7013), a blend of highlife music and jazz on which King plays flute. He then toured Europe and northern Africa as leader of the Blues Builders.

After leading a band, The Voice of Africa, from ...