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All Leila Josefowicz articles
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BlogsOpen-eared and wide-eyed: experiencing Ojai Festival via livestream
Despite not attending in-person, Richard Linnett highlights the delights of the Ojai Festival’s comprehensive livestreamed events, including an electrifying performance from violinist Leila Josefowicz
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Leila Josefowicz: Adès
A mesmerising new account of a recent violin concerto
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Blogs‘Something deeply human and expressive breaks through’: Leila Josefowicz on the violin concerto of Thomas Adès
Leila Josefowicz reflects on her long relationship with Thomas Adès’s violin concerto, now out in her live recording with the Minnesota Orchestra and Thomas Søndergård.
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Premium ❘ FeatureBaby on board: string soloists share their parenting stories
A life of performing, touring and rehearsing might seem impossible with a young child in tow – so how do so many soloists manage it? Catherine Nelson finds out, in this article from our May 2012 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Leila Josefowicz on Berg Violin Concerto Second Movement - part 2
In the second of two articles, Leila Josefowicz discusses the Adagio of the second movement, in the context of the Viennese School and the Neue Sachlichkeit era
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Leila Josefowicz on Berg Violin Concerto Second Movement - part 1
ln the first of two articles, Leila Josefowicz explores ideas of feverishness, hallucination, death and resurrection in the second movement of a great 20th-century concerto
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Leila Josefowicz (violin)
Bruce Hodges watches an artful performance at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on 16 February 2021
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NewsViolinist Leila Josefowicz to livestream world premiere
Josefowicz will perform a new work by Matthias Pintscher at contemporary New York art gallery Hauser & Wirth this Friday - free to view online
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ReviewConcert review: Leila Josefowicz (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
On 14 September 2019 Peter Quantrill saw the concert at London’s Barbican Hall
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Focus7 tips on motivating yourself to practise
7 different string players share their wisdom on maintaining motivation - as featured over the last 10 years in The Strad
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Focus5 practice tips from Leila Josefowicz
To tie in with our review of her latest CD, the violinist shares her insights
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ReviewLeila Josefowicz: Zimmermann
A magnificent performance of dramatic music by a 20th-century German composer
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NewsLeila Josefowicz Receives $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
The violinist becomes the 24th recipient of the award
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FocusRenaud Capuçon, Leila Josefowicz and Carolin Widmann on 21st-century concertos
The combination of violin and orchestra has in recent years inspired a proliferation of diverse new works. Here three top soloists discuss giving their premieres
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NewsBBC Proms 2017 season revealed - including a feast of violin concertos
The 123rd Proms season takes place in London’s Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall over eight weeks from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September
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FocusLeila Josefowicz on performing 21st-century violin concertos
When playing a new concerto 'you have to take on its personality completely in order to make it convincing', says the violinist
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ArticleViolinist Leila Josefowicz performs Paganini aged 13
13-year-old Leila Josefowicz plays 'La Campanella' from Paganini's Violin Concerto no.2 with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by John Williams in 1991. Watch: When they were young: Sarah Chang
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ReviewC. Matthews: Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto no.2; Cortège
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: Two string concertos by one of today’s leading British composers Musicians: Leila Josefowicz (violin) Anssi Karttunen (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen, Rumon Gamba; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly Composer: Colin Matthews ...
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ArticleViolinist Leila Josefowicz performs John Adams's Scheherazade.2
The level and intensity of emotional output in this piece is beyond anything I’ve done' Violinist Leila Josefowicz performs and discusses John Adams's Scheherazade.2 † dramatic symphony for orchestra and violin, a work that she premiered with the New York Philharmonic in March 2015. Read: Leila Josefowicz ...
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz's violin sells for £156,000 at auction
The violin that Leila Josefowicz used as her main concert instrument for the last twelve years was sold at a London auction yesterday. The violin fetched £156,000 (including buyer's premium) at Ingles & Hayday. The instrument, dated around 1750, was catalogued as 'probably by Michele Angelo Bergonzi' ...
