She has been recognized for many years as one of the world’s leading violinists. Her supreme blend of artistry and musicality continues to inspire audiences worldwide.
She is currently a professor at the New England Conservatory and is invited to give master classes around the world. Since 1993, she has been Artistic Director of the Ravinia Institute, one of the leading summer festivals for young musicians in the United States. Her participation has included regular performances at the Ravinia Festival and recitals and concerts with the Chicago Symphony. She currently continues her management as Artistic Director of the Steans Institutes at Ravinia.
She has frequently been invited by the leading orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, as well as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London and Vienna symphonies, and the Royal Philharmonic. She has also given recitals in all the major music centers of North America, Brussels, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm, and Zurich.
Her latest engagements have included orchestral performances with ensembles as prestigious as the Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, Montreal, and Jerusalem symphonies, the Los Angeles, Berlin, BBC, Czech, Mexico, and Japan philharmonics, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and the Louisville and Paris orchestras. She recently premiered a violin concerto, composed for her by Donald Erb, with the Grand Rapids Symphony.
In 1999, she published complete sonatas and partitas in France with the Lyrinx label. She also won an award for a recording of Sibelius’s “Concerto” with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Okko Kamu, which has become a best-seller. The importance of chamber music in her career has led her to be the first violin of the Mendelssohn String Quartet.
She has just recorded Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin, available on Nimbus. She has also recorded a series of lectures on the sonatas and partitas available on I-Classical Academy.
She plays a 1718 Stradivarius that was owned by the composer and conductor Louis Spohr and the Italian violinist Regina Strinasacchi.