~ Jaime Laredo ~
 Jaime Laredo was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1941. He holds the status of national hero in Bolivia, with a stadium named for him in La Paz and commemorative set of twelve postage stamps issued in his name.
He first began to learn the violin when he was five years old. He came to the United States in 1948 and began study with Antonio DeGrass amd frank Houser. In 1953 he moved to Cleveland and studied with Josef Gingold of the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued from there to Curtis where he studied with Ivan Galamian and graduated with a diploma.
He won the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Competition in 1959. Mr. Laredo played the G Minor Bach unaccompanied for the preliminaries and then three Paganini Caprices and the Bruch Scottish Fantasy. For the semi-finals he played the unaccompanied Fourth Sonata by Ysaye and a contempory work by a Belgium composer. For the final he played a concerto by D. Milhaud and the Sibelius Concerto with the National Orchestra of Belgium. The prize was $3000 and a six weeks tour of Belgium.
Mr. Laredo has performed with many major American and European orchestras, including the Boston and
Chicago Symphonies, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the London Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic, and has chamber collaborations with musicians, including Glenn Gould, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Rudolf Serkin and Isaac Stern.
 He has has won the Deutsche Schallplatten Prize, the Gramophone Award, and several Emmy nominations.
Jaime Laredo is also know as a conductor, appearing regularly with the St.
Paul and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, as well as with the Houston, Montreal, Phoenix, Seattle and
Utah symphonies. He is Artistic Director of New York's - Chamber Music at the 92nd Street Y - series.
 Jaime Laredo succeeded Josef Gingold as President of the Competition Jury for the
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
 He is artistic advisor for the the Vermont Symphony for the 1999 and 2000 summer and winter seasons.
 The Miami Herald quotes -Jaime Laredo has been acclaimed as one of the master
musicians of our time, "a violinist whose art goes deeper than virtuosity"
 Jaime Laredo plays the 1717 'Gariel' Stradivari. It is from Stradivari's golden period has has a beautiful one piece back of large curly flamed maple. The varnish is an orange on a golden ground.
In the video The Art of Playing the Violin by Jaime Laredo, Mr. Laredo shows and talks
about the 'Gariel' and plays Beethoven's Spring Sonata on the instrument. The violin can be seen and heard in all its glory.
He has been at the following festivals:
Tanglewood
Marlboro
Mostly Mozart
Aspen
Hollywood Bowl
In Europe:
London and BBC Symphonies
English Chamber Orchestra
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Helsinki Philharmonic
Special:
- performed at the United Nations
- Presidents Johnson and Carter at the White House
He is a member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. It was formed in 1976 with his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, and pianist Joseph Kalichstein
 Video - available from SHAR
- The Art of Playing the Violin by Jaime Laredo
- recordings - Sony Classical
 Bach Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard with Glenn Gould
- Beethoven "Triple" Concerto with Rudolf Serkin & Leslie Parnas
- three Brahms piano quartets with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax won the 1991 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Recording
- Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and Concertone with Cho-Liang Lin and the English Chamber Orchestra
- two Brahms string sextets with Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Michael Tree, Yo-YoMa and Sharon Robinson
- 1992 release of the Faure Piano Quartets with Ax-Stern-Laredo-Ma received a Grammy nomination for Best Chamber Music Recording
- 1994 piano quartets of Schumann and Beethoven with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
- Boccherini String Quartet in E Major, Op. 13, No. 5, with Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma and Sharon
Robinson, plus Mozart Piano Quartets with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
- Mr and Mrs Laredo divide their time between their homes in Vermont and New York City. They are members of Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament and Musicians Against Nuclear Arms.
- Pictures included by courtesy of Frank Salomon Associates
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