Uniquely gifted and creative violin virtuoso Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg continues to bring joy to audiences whether from the stage, the TV screen, or the cyber world of the internet.  Innovative, sharp and witty, she is truly an artist whose impact on the world of classical music is as deep as her love for the art.

In the 2007-08 season, Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg tours the West Coast with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra as well as with the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and performs with the New Jersey, Houston, Oregon, York, Baltimore and Colorado Symphony Orchestras. Highlights this season also include recitals with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and a Louisiana Residency.

 

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg continues to enrich the collection of her record label NSS Music, which she started in 2005. Coming this year will be NSS Music's first jazz album, entitled "Love, All That It Is," featuring The Clarice Assad Trio.  

 

Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg's professional career began in 1981 when she won the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. She was also the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1983, and in 1988 was Ovations Debut Recording Artist of the Year.  In 1999, she was honored with the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, and in May of that same year, she was awarded an honorary Masters of Musical Arts from the New Mexico State University. An American citizen, Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome and emigrated to the United States at the age of eight ... read full bio