All Leila Josefowicz articles
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Focus5 tips for juggling early parenthood with life as a soloist
Virtuoso violinists share their insight on balancing the demands of early parenthood and a career as a soloist
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NewsViolinist Leila Josefowicz to livestream world premiere
Josefowicz will perform a new work by Matthias Pintscher at contemporary New York art gallery Hauser & Wirth this Friday - free to view online
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Focus7 tips on motivating yourself to practise
7 different string players share their wisdom on maintaining motivation - as featured over the last 10 years in The Strad
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Focus5 practice tips from Leila Josefowicz
To tie in with our review of her latest CD, the violinist shares her insights
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FocusRenaud Capuçon, Leila Josefowicz and Carolin Widmann on 21st-century concertos
The combination of violin and orchestra has in recent years inspired a proliferation of diverse new works. Here three top soloists discuss giving their premieres
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ReviewLeila Josefowicz: John Adams Violin Concerto
Beautiful detail and inspirational playing of infectious music
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FocusLeila Josefowicz: on choosing to play a new violin
The violinist talks about giving up on old Italian instruments and opting for a bespoke violin by maker Sam Zygmuntowicz
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FocusLeila Josefowicz on performing 21st-century violin concertos
When playing a new concerto 'you have to take on its personality completely in order to make it convincing', says the violinist
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NewsViolinists Leila Josefowicz, Christian Tetzlaff and Gil Shaham nominated for 2017 Grammy Awards
The 59th Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on 12 February 2017
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ArticleViolinist Leila Josefowicz performs Paganini aged 13
13-year-old Leila Josefowicz plays 'La Campanella' from Paganini's Violin Concerto no.2 with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by John Williams in 1991. Watch: When they were young: Sarah Chang
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ArticleViolinist Leila Josefowicz performs John Adams's Scheherazade.2
The level and intensity of emotional output in this piece is beyond anything I’ve done' Violinist Leila Josefowicz performs and discusses John Adams's Scheherazade.2 † dramatic symphony for orchestra and violin, a work that she premiered with the New York Philharmonic in March 2015. Read: Leila Josefowicz ...
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz
Born in Canada to a Polish father and an English mother, Leila Josefowicz moved to California as a young child and enrolled in a Suzuki violin class. At the age of eight she was taken on by California's leading teacher, Robert Lipsett, at the Colburn School of ...
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz's violin sells for £156,000 at auction
The violin that Leila Josefowicz used as her main concert instrument for the last twelve years was sold at a London auction yesterday. The violin fetched £156,000 (including buyer's premium) at Ingles & Hayday. The instrument, dated around 1750, was catalogued as 'probably by Michele Angelo Bergonzi' ...
