The American violinist Leila Josefowicz has won the hearts of audiences around the world with her dynamic virtuosity and fresh approach to the repertoire.
Leila Josefowicz came to national attention in 1994 when made her Carnegie Hall debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She appeared with the most prestigious orchestras including Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Cleveland, Philadelphia, London Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Orchestre National de France with Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit etc.
Recent engagements in North America have included appearances with the Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, National Orchestra of Washington, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony and Dallas Symphony. In 2000/01 she made her debut at the Ravinia Festival and gave recitals in Montreal, Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh. She performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, Vienna Symphony, the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and gave recitals in Wigmore Hall London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and at the Verbier Festival.
Chamber music also plays an important part in her musical life and she has participated at the Marlboro Music Festival, Osaka Festival, Verbier Festival and Stavanger Festival, where she performed with Martha Argerich, Thomas Hampson, Sylvia McNair, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Truls Mork and Misha Maisky.
Leila Josefowicz has an exclusive contract with Philips Classics. Her first disc with the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos and her second disc with unaccompanied works by Bartók, Kreisler, Ysaye, Ernst and Paganini received excellent notices and were both awarded the Diapason d´Or prize. Her immensely popular recording "Bohemian Rhapsodies" was released in 1997 and received the Echo Prize 1998. Her first sonata recording with pianist John Novacek was released in 1998. The recording of the Mendelssohn and Glazunov concertos with the Montreal Symphony and Charles Dutoit was recently released. The next CD will include the Prokoviev concertos with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit. Leila Josefowicz began her studies at the age of 3 and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jaime Laredo and Jascha Brodsky. In 1994 she was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
