Famous People with Name Ginette

Ginette Neveu            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ginette Neveu: was a French violinist.Born in Paris into a very musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist. She was also the grandniece of composer Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937). A child prodigy, Ginette Neveu took lessons from her mother and made her solo debut at the age of seven with the Colonne Orchestra in Paris. Her parents then decided to send her to study under Line Talluel, and after further studies with Jules Boucherit at the Paris Conservatory, she completed her training with instruction from George Enescu, Nadia Boulanger, and Carl Flesch.

Ginette Harrison            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Ginette Harrison: was a professional climber of British origin. She also lived in Australia and the United States.She studied medicine at the University of Bristol and later specialized in high altitude medicine. At age 25 she climbed Denali, the highest mountain in North

Ginette Keller            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ginette Keller: is a French composer. Keller studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951 she won the Second Prix de Rome with her cantata Et l’Homme vit se rouvrir les portes. She taught aural training at the Conservatoire and analysis and counterpoint at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

Ginette Rossini            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ginette Rossini: is a Luxembourgian Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil events at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.

Ginette Martenot            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ginette Martenot: was a French pianist and expert and leading performer[1] on the twentieth-century electronic instrument the ondes Martenot, which was invented by her brother Maurice. At the age of sixteen, she entered the Paris Conservatory, where she studied counterpoint and fugue with the composer Arthur Honegger. She gave the first performance (and subsequently made recordings) as solo ondist in Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, with Yvonne Loriod taking the solo piano part.