Leila Josefowicz | |
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Born |
Missisauga, Ontario, Canada |
October 20, 1977
Genres | classical |
Instruments | violin |
Labels | Philips Classics |
Website | www |
Leila Josefowicz, NPR |
Leila Bronia Josefowicz (born October 20, 1977) is an American-Canadian classical violinist.
Josefowicz was born in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started studying the violin at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method. Her father, physicist Jack Yitzhak Josefowicz, and mother, biologist Wendy Josefowicz, learned with her. At age five, she started formal lessons with Idel Low. At eight she began studies with the distinguished violin teacher Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School. Leila's parents, valuing a well-rounded education, felt it important that she stay in the public school system, rejecting home schooling, despite a very full schedule of music activities.
When Leila was 13 the Josefowiczes moved to Philadelphia so she could attend the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Jaime Laredo, Jascha Brodsky, Felix Galimir and Joseph Gingold. Leila also attended the Julia R. Masterman School in Philadelphia while at Curtis, completing a bachelor of music degree and her high school diploma in the same year.
While still in her teens, Josefowicz played with symphony orchestras in Europe, Asia and North America, including Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Boston, Montreal and Toronto.