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Endre Granat (born in Hungary in August 3, 1937) is an American . He is regarded as the most recorded violinist and concertmaster working in the studios today.
His teachers included Gyorgy Garay, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz.
In 1962 Endre Granat won first prize at the International Competition in Heidelberg and he was a 1967 prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels. He performs on an Italian "Domenicus Montagnana" 1721 violin.
A former Fulbright scholar, he has taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Gothenburg, the Cleveland Institute of Music, California State University at Northridge, and the University of Southern California.
Granat is noted for his Urtext editions of violin concerti by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Henryk Wieniawski as well as The Essential Sevcik. Granat is editor for the Heifetz Collection that include urtext editions of Heifetz' favorites as well as the Urtext Edition of Paganini 24 Caprices and THE HEIFETZ SCALE BOOK.
For many years one of the leading concertmaster for the Hollywood film industry, he was the leader for Miklos Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini, Hans Zimmer and a host of others. Granat was the concertmaster of numerous awards ceremonies of the , the and the . He has over 2,800 motion pictures and thousands of television shows to his credit.
Granat has toured and recorded with numerous artists, including Earth, Wind, and Fire, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Barbra Streisand, Yanni, Natalie Cole, Dionne Warwick, and Ricky Martin.
He was concertmaster for many that made for films, including Ghostbusters (1984), (1996), Starship Troopers (1996), Anna and the King (1999), Legally Blonde (2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), (2002), Dreamcatcher (2003), (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), Peter Pan (2003), The Terminal (2004), Transformers (2007), (2007), The Simpsons Movie (2007), and Frozen (2013).
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