# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sanford-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:55:59.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sanford-allen"
name: "Sanford Allen"
slug: "sanford-allen"
description: "Sanford Allen is an American classical violinist. At the age of 10, he began studying violin at the Juilliard School of Music and continued at the Mannes School of Music under Vera Fonaroff. He was the first African-American regular member of the Lewisohn Stadium Concerts Orchestra, joining in the summer of 1959. In 1962, shortly after winning the inaugural Young Concert Artists competition, he became the first full-time African-American violinist with the New York Philharmonic. After leaving the Philharmonic in 1977, Allen pursued a career as a soloist, teacher, and adviser on the arts. He also worked extensively recording film music."
tagline: "American classical violinist (born 1939)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.22
  momentum:             16.11559139784946
  historical:           2.926210666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Allen"
    title: "Sanford Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/37fb7c9f-1d4a-43d2-a8fb-a207d32a952a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/334313"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27063706"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations