Granoff School of Music

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Isadore Granoff (1901 - 2000), a Ukrainian immigrant, founded the Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Granoff began giving violin lessons as a teenager. His more famous students have included Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane. Some of his students later became well-known Classical, Jazz, Swing, big band and Latin musicians. Mr. Granoff sold the music school in 1970.

Mr. Granoff's studio originally was in his south Philadelphia row-house home at 8th and Porter streets, where the parlor served as waiting room and the lessons were given in the adjoining dining room, furnished with a couple of music stands and an old upright piano. In 1928 he relocated his studio to the Presser (music publisher) building at 17th and Chestnut streets in central Philadelphia. The upper stories of that building were partitioned and contained many studios for voice and instrumentalists. It was here that his studio, originally for lessons in classical violin, metamorphosed, in the late 1930's, into the broader music school.