Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
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| Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg | |
| Born | January 10, 1961 (age 46) Rome, Italy |
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| Genre(s) | Classical | |
| Occupation(s) | musician, author | |
| Instrument(s) | Violin | |
| Years active | 1986-present | |
| Label(s) | EMI, Nonesuch, NSS Music | |
| Website | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg | |
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born Rome, Italy, January 10, 1961) is an Italian-born classical violinist, author, and teacher. She is a United States citizen.
[edit] Career
She emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of eight, relocating to Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and later with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1981, she became the youngest-ever prizewinner in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. She has been honored with an Avery Fisher Career Grant (1983), and in 1999 she received the Avery Fisher Prize, for "outstanding achievement and excellence in music."
She was a frequent guest on NBC's The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and has also been featured on the CBS News 60 Minutes news program. In May 1999, 60 Minutes II aired a follow-up to 60 Minutes' 1986 feature about her.
Salerno-Sonnenberg has released many recordings on the Angel/Emi Classics, Nonesuch, and NSS Music labels. She has performed with orchestras around the world and played at the White House. She has also performed with such popular artists as Mandy Patinkin, Joe Jackson, and Mark O'Connor. She has frequently collaborated with the pianist Anne-Marie McDermott.
In 1989, she wrote Nadja: On My Way (ISBN-10: 051757392X. ISBN-13: 978-0517573921), an autobiography written for children. In May 1999 she received an honorary Master of Musical Arts degree from New Mexico State University, the first honorary degree that university ever awarded.
She is the subject of Paola di Florio's documentary, Speaking in Strings, released by Docurama.
[edit] Partial discography
- Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Massenet (1990)
- Brahms: Violin Concerto in D/Bruch: Concerto #1 in G Minor (1990)
- Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (1991)
- It Ain't Necessarily So (1992)
- Barber: Violin Concerto; Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (1992)
- Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Chausson: Poeme for Violin & Orchestra (1993)
- Bella Italia: From the Aspen Music Festival (1997)
- Night & Day (1998)
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On NSS Music:
