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Leila Josefowicz
Violinist Leila Josefowicz has won the hearts of audiences around the world with her honest, fresh approach to the repertoire and her dynamic virtuosity.
Josefowicz came to national attention in 1994 when she made her Carnegie Hall debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. The performance was immediately followed by her debut recording of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos for Philips Classics. Since that time she has performed with many of the world's most prestigious orchestras including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Royal Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras and the Los Angeles, Munich and London Philharmonics. She has also appeared at many major international summer festivals such as Mostly Mozart in New York, the Hollywood Bowl, Salzburg, Verbier and the London Proms.
Recent engagements in North America include appearances with the Montreal, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Toronto, Dallas and Indianapolis symphonies and the Minnesota Orchestra as well as recitals in San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles and New York. During her 2005/06 season, Josefowicz returns to the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Toronto, St. Louis, Atlanta, Houston and Vancouver symphonies; makes her debuts with the San Francisco and Phoenix symphonies; and plays a recital at Carnegie's Zankel Hall.
No stranger to television, Josefowicz has appeared on numerous national broadcasts such as The Tonight Show, Evening at Pops and PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. Her most recent television appearance was Eugenia Zukerman's profile of her on CBS Sunday Morning. In January 2002, her performance of John Adams' Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony was televised and broadcast by the BBC throughout Europe.
Josefowicz's debut recording of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius with Sir Neville Marriner was followed in 1996 by her second disc, Solo, which features unaccompanied violin works by Bartók, Kreisler, Ysa˙e, Ernst and Paganini. Both releases were awarded the Diapason d'Or prize. Subsequent releases include Bohemian Rhapsodies, a collection of virtuosic violin works with orchestra, For the End of Time and Americana with pianist John Novacek, and the Mendelssohn, Glazunov and Prokofiev concertos with the Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit conducting, all on the Philips Classics label. Recent releases include a live recording of her performance of the Adams Violin Concerto with John Adams conducting on the BBC label and Adams' Road Movies, which received a 2004 Grammy nomination, for Nonesuch. Her latest CD is a recital disc featuring the works of Messiaen, Beethoven, Salonen, Ravel and Mark Grey for Warner Classics, with which she is an exclusive recording artist.
A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1994, Leila Josefowicz is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jaime Laredo and Jascha Brodsky. In addition to her solo work, she studied chamber music at Curtis with Felix Galimir and participated at several Marlboro Music Festivals. Josefowicz currently performs on a Del Gesu made in 1724.
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