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Leila Bronia Josefowicz is an American-Canadian classical violinist.

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Leila Josefowicz

Josefowicz’s 2024–25 season includes performances of Luca Francesconi’s Duende – The Dark Notes with New York Philharmonic and Susanna Malkki, and the British premiere of Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo at the Aldeburgh Festival. Further engagements include London Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and the Houston, San Diego, KBS, Singapore, and City of Birmingham symphony orchestras. Highlights of recent seasons include appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, where she worked with conductors at the highest level including Paavo Järvi, Matthias Pintscher, John Storgårds, Cristian Măcelaru, Thomas Søndergård, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dalia Stasevska, Hannu Lintu, and John Adams.

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Leila Josefowicz

Josefowicz enjoyed a close working relationship with the late Oliver Knussen, performing various concerti, including his violin concerto, together over 30 times. Other premieres have included Matthias Pintscher’s Assonanza with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, John Adams’ Scheherazade.2 with New York Philharmonic, Luca Francesconi’s Duende – The Dark Notes with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Steven Mackey’s Beautiful Passing with BBC Philharmonic.

Together with John Novacek, with whom she has enjoyed a close collaboration since 1985, Josefowicz has performed recitals at world-renowned venues such as New York’s Zankel Hall and Park Avenue Armory, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, as well as in Reykjavik, Trento, Bilbao and Chicago. This season, their collaboration continues with a return to London’s Wigmore Hall, performing the world premiere of Charlotte Bray’s new commission Mriya. Other chamber collaborations for 2024/25 include Alexei Tartakovsky at Newport Classica

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Canadian-born violin virtuoso Leila Josefowicz has enchanted international audiences with her vibrant, daring, and dynamic performances and recordings. Josefowicz has grown from a child prodigy into a mature musician who refuses to lock herself into any one style of music. Trained in classical and chamber music, she is equally influenced by jazz and contemporary music. Although her inspirations include celebrated mid-century violinists Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler, she is also a self-proclaimed lover of R&B and rock. By the time she was a teenager, Josefowicz was already touring extensively with famous conductors like Seiji Ozawa and Sir Neville Marriner, who later became her mentor. In 1994 she received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has also been awarded two Diapason d’Or Prizes, one for each of her first two albums. She hopes that audiences can appreciate the connections between pop and classical music. “Beethoven is not just somebody in a glass case f