4,030 shares In this photograph taken on August 9, 2011, Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis performs during a rehearsal with Una Stella Baroque musical ensemble in Marseille, southern France. (Bertrand Langlois/AFP) PARIS, France — Israeli virtuoso violinist Ivry Gitlis has died in Paris aged 98, his family told AFP Thursday. As one of the modern greats of classical music, he not only performed with the best orchestras in the world but never stopped experimenting, seeking new fans far beyond the elite. Gitlis was as comfortable playing with the Rolling Stones or jazzman Stephane Grapelli as he was with classical repertoire. Hugely charismatic, he took “the time to meet people, to seduce them, to learn to like them,” Le Parisien newspaper wrote of the musician, who lived in the French capital.