LEILE JOSEFOWICZ
(violin)

Violinist Leila Josefowicz has won the hearts of audiences around the world with her honest, fresh approach to the repertoire and her dynamic virtuosity.

Ms. 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 appeared with many of the world's most prestigious orchestras including the Boston and Chicago symphonies, Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the NHK Symphony Orchestra and collaborated with such eminent conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Charles Dutoit and Franz Welser-Moest among others.

Recent engagements in North America include appearances with the Montreal, Detroit, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Seattle, Vancouver and New Jersey symphonies, as well as recitals in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and New York. During her 2004/05 season, Ms. Josefowicz returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Dallas, St. Louis, Toronto, New World, Indianapolis and Oregon symphonies and makes her subscription debuts with the Pittsburgh and Houston symphonies as well as with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Leila Josefowicz's recent and upcoming European engagements include appearances with the Munich, Czech and Oslo Philharmonics and the Bamberg and BBC symphonies and recitals at London's Wigmore Hall and the Barbican and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She also toured throughout the Far East with the Asian Youth Orchestra during the summer of 2001 and appears with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in June 2004.

No stranger to television, Ms. 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, John Adams conducting, was televised and broadcast by the BBC throughout Europe.

Ms. 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. A live recording of her performance of the Adams Violin Concerto, with John Adams conducting, was released on the new BBC label and her performance of Adams' Road Movies was recently released by Nonesuch.

A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1994, Ms. 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. In recent seasons she has collaborated with artists such as Martha Argerich, Thomas Hampson, Jaime Laredo, Sylvia McNair, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida and André Watts.

For more information about Leila Josefowicz,
please visit her web site at www.leilajosefowicz.com.