Miriam Fried (born 9 September 1946)
[ is a Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist and pedagogue.
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Biography
Miriam Fried was born in Satu Mare, Romania
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[David C F Wright]
/ref> but moved with her family to Israel
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when she was aged 2.[Mendelssohn String Quartet]
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Her family settled in Herzliya
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. Her mother was a piano teacher.[ 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
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with Alice Fenyves continued under her brother Lorand Fenyves at Geneva
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,[ Josef Gingold at ]Indiana University
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, and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School
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.[
In 1968 she won the Paganini Competition in ]Genoa
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and in 1971 the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
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in Brussels
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.[
Miriam Fried is the dedicatee and first performer of the Violin Concerto by ]Donald Erb
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. Other composers who have written works for her include Ned Rorem
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and Alexander Boskovich.[
She has recorded the complete solo sonatas and partitas of ]Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...
, and twice recorded the Sibelius Violin Concerto.
She plays a 1718 Stradivarius believed to have been formerly owned by Louis Spohr
Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, t ...
, and also by Regina Strinasacchi, for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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wrote his Sonata in B-flat, K. 454.[
She has been Artistic Director and chair of the faculty at the Steans Institute for Young ArtistsNew England Conservatory]
/ref> of the Ravinia Festival
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since 1993. She was a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. She is a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory.[ She was Professor of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.][ Her students include ]Pekka Kuusisto
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Biography
Kuusisto comes from a musical lineage. His grandfather was a composer and organist, his father is a jazz musician who has composed operas, and his mother is a music t ...
and Nancy Zhou.
She gives master classes internationally.[Opus3 Artists]
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She is married to the violinist and violist Paul Biss
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, the son of the Russian-born cellist Raya Garbousova
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. Their sons are the pianist Jonathan Biss
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, with whom she often plays,[ and Daniel Biss, who is the mayor of Evanston, ]Illinois
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.
References
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1946 births
Living people
People from Satu Mare
People from Satu Mare County
Romanian Jews
Transylvanian Jews
Israeli classical violinists
Violin pedagogues
Israeli Jews
Romanian emigrants to Israel
Women classical violinists
Women music educators
21st-century classical violinists
21st-century women musicians