1. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg was born on January 10,1961 and is an Italian and American classical violinist and teacher.
17 Facts About Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's father left when she was three months old.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg emigrated with her mother to the United States at age eight, relocating to Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and later with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1983, and in 1999 she was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize for "outstanding achievement and excellence in music".
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is the subject of Paola di Florio's documentary Speaking in Strings, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.
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In 1994, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg badly injured her left little finger while chopping onions as she prepared Christmas dinner for friends and family.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's fingertip was surgically reattached and took six months to heal.
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In 2003, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg performed the world premiere of Sergio Assad's Triple Concerto, a work for violin, two guitars and orchestra with the Assad brothers and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra in St Paul, Minnesota.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has performed with orchestras around the world and played at the White House.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has performed with such popular artists as Mandy Patinkin, Joe Jackson, and Mark O'Connor.
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In 2008, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg was selected as the Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra under a three-year contract.
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In 2015, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg joined Loyola University New Orleans as a Resident Artist.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has continued to perform with various symphonies, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony, as well as at festivals like Wolf Trap.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg plays a Peter Guarneri violin called the "Miss Beatrice Lutyens, ex Cte de Sasserno, Cremona 1721".
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In 2004, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg said she answered "hundreds of fan letters a year" on her website.
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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg was a guest several times on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and was featured on 60 Minutes in 1986.