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My Current teacher says his teacher was Igor Ozim, who studied under Max Rostal (whom my teacher also spent a brief amount of time with) who studied with Carl Flesch. It's pretty amazing for me to think that I'm only 4 links away from Flesch. I studied 4 1/2 years under someone who was a student of Broadus Erle and Josef Gingold, and my current teacher did undergrad with Dorothy DeLay and Paul Kantor Sorry for the double post but my current teacher also did his graduate studies with Arnold Steinhardt, who I just read was a student of Ivan Galamian, so that's all 3! I have three routes back to Ysaye

1. Through Leon Sammetini (one grandteacher)
2. Through Joseph Gingold (another grandteacher
3. Harold Hess yest another grandteacher.

I didn't study with any of these three just their students.

My current teacher studied with Delay at Juilliard. My teacher studied with Paul Zukofsky who studied with Galamian. She also studied with Leonard Posner and David Schneider but I don't know who they studied with. I go back to Auer about three ways. Unfortunately, Auer's philosophy was teach yourself. My teacher in Pasadena studied with Mehli Mehta, who studied with Galamian. My current teacher studied with Raphael Bronstein (who studied with Leopold Auer) and Roman Totenberg (who studied with Carl Flesch). I don't know my violin family tree, but I once shook hands with someone who once shook hands with the Dalay Lama.

;-)

Sorry, that would have to be the DeLay Lama. My last teacher studied with Heifetz. Lots of fascinating stories... My teacher last semester, Dr.Pinell, had the pleasure of being taught a thing or two by Issac Stern. And of course I rank Javier and his wife Naomi right up there with the best. David Oistrakh is my teacher's teacher. My high school teacher traces back to at least Joachim. I don't really take after either of them, I'm afraid. I studied awhile with Igor Gruppman who studied with David Oistrach. My current teacher studied with Paul Kantor, who was a Dorothy Delay student. Two of my major teachers studied with Syzmon Goldberg, who was a student of Carl Flesch. I know I've got Galamian and Gingold in there, not sure about DeLay but probably.

I have but one degree (Mr. Danchenko) separating me from David Oistrakh....which I'm perhaps a little too proud of...:)

incidentally, you might want to specify that this "Big Three" are the big three primarily of the American school. My violin teacher from High School knows Joshua Bell's first violin teacher.