Jaime Laredo

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Jaime Laredo y Unzueta (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba ) is an American classical violinist and conductor of Bolivian origin.

Career

Jaime Laredo was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. At the age of five he began to learn to play the violin. As early as 1948, at the age of seven, he moved with his parents to the USA in the hope of being able to “hire” the best violin teachers for his violin training there. Here he continued studying the violin with Antonio de Grassi and Frank Houser. As a child prodigy, he made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the age of eleven . In 1952 the press said: "In the 1920s it was Yehudi Menuhin, in the 1930s Isaac Stern and yesterday evening Jaime Laredo." In 1953 he went to Cleveland for further studies with Josef Gingold . From 1964 he studied with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Laredo was coached privately by Pau Casals and George Szell . In 1959 he won the Reine Elisabeth Concours in Brussels - as a sort of completion of his training . In the course of his career he also won the German Record Award and the Gramophone Award . He has received multiple Emmy nominations . In 1992 he received for recordings of the Brahms piano quartets Op. 25 and 26 the Grammy for the best chamber music interpretation. In 2010 Laredo was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

With his solo concert in New York's Carnegie Hall in October 1960, he started an international career as a recitalist, orchestral soloist and chamber musician. In the same year he married the American pianist Ruth Meckler , then Ruth Laredo , with whom he was married until 1974 and gave numerous concert evenings during these years.

He gave numerous chamber concerts with his second wife, the cellist Sharon Robinson , and the pianist Joseph Kalichstein . In addition to his co-founding functions with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Laredo-Robinson Duo , Laredo has served as music director and conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra since 1999 .

Laredo was a regular participant in the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, the Indianapolis International Violin Competition and at numerous festivals promoting young talent. From 1970 to 2005 he taught at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 2005 he was appointed to the faculty of Indiana University in Bloomington , where he taught until 2012. In 2012 the Cleveland Institute of Music appointed Laredo and his wife, Sharon Robinson, to teach at the Conservatory's String Faculty.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Sheila K. Helser (sheilascorner.com)
  2. ^ A b Library of Congress
  3. a b c d e f Klassik Heute, 2016
  4. a b c Naxos
  5. Quoted from: Klassik Heute, 2016.
  6. a b Cleveland Institute of Music
  7. ^ Indiana University
  8. Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 18, 2018 .