Miriam Fried | |
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Born | Satu Mare, Romania | 9 September 1946
Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Pedagogue, performer |
Instrument(s) | Violin |
Miriam Fried (born 9 September 1946) [1] [2] is a Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist and pedagogue.
Miriam Fried was born in Satu Mare, Romania [2] but moved with her family to Israel when she was aged 2. [3]
Her family settled in Herzliya. Her mother was a piano teacher. [2] Miriam first took up piano lessons but when she was eight years old she made a definite choice for the violin. Her studies in Tel Aviv with Alice Fenyves continued under her brother Lorand Fenyves at Geneva, [2] Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School. [2] [3]
In 1968 she won the Paganini Competition in Genoa and in 1971 the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels. [2] [3]
Miriam Fried is the dedicatee and first performer of the Violin Concerto by Donald Erb. Other composers who have written works for her include Ned Rorem and Alexander Boskovich. [2]
She has recorded the complete solo sonatas and partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach, and twice recorded the Sibelius Violin Concerto.
She plays a 1718 Stradivarius believed to have been formerly owned by Louis Spohr, and also by Regina Strinasacchi, for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Sonata in B-flat, K. 454. [3]
She has been artistic director and chair of the faculty at the Steans Institute for Young Artists [4] of the Ravinia Festival since 1993. She was a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. She is a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory. [5] She was Professor of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. [2] Her students include Pekka Kuusisto and Nancy Zhou.
She gives master classes internationally. [5]
She is married to the violinist and violist Paul Biss, the son of the Russian-born cellist Raya Garbousova. Their sons are the pianist Jonathan Biss, with whom she often plays, [2] and Daniel Biss, who is the mayor of Evanston, Illinois.
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