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Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Anne-Marie McDermott
Dominican University’s Performing Arts Series presents renowned violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in concert with award-winning pianist Anne-Marie McDermott on Saturday, April 22 at 8:00 p.m. in Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.
A musician, author and teacher, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg burst onto the music scene in 1981 as the youngest recipient ever of the W. Naumborg International Violin Competition and has remained in the media spotlight ever since. She is the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, Speaking in Strings, and has been featured in numerous television specials including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 60 Minutes, PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center, The Charlie Rose Show and Sesame Street. She has played a command performance at the White House and was the recipient of New Mexico State University’s first honorary degree, a master in musical arts, in 1999.
Born in Rome, Salerno-Sonnenberg immigrated to the United States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music and later at The Julliard School. She is the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize and in 1988 was named as Ovation’s Debut Record Artist of the Year.
Anne-Marie McDermott, acclaimed for her virtuosic articulation, seamless fluency and dramatic theatricality in performance, made her debut in 1987 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Seattle. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music and participated in master classes with Misha Dichter, Leon Fleischer and Mstislav Rostropovich.
McDermott is the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Development Award, the Young Concert Artists Auditions Award and, in 1995, was named an Artist Member of the preeminent Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has recorded with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg for eight years.
Tickets for this concert are $25 and $40. For more information, please call the Dominican University box office at (708) 488-5000.
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