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Music & the Arts

‘Something Deeply Human and Expressive Breaks Through’: Leila Josefowicz on Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto

Leila Josefowicz; photo: Tom Zimberoff

Leila Josefowicz reflects on her long relationship with Thomas Adès’s violin concerto, now out in her live recording with the Minnesota Orchestra and Thomas Søndergård. My interview for The Strad:

Leila Josefowicz has made contemporary music central to her career, performing new scores with the same conviction others reserve for the classics. Over the past two decades, she has built lasting partnerships with composers who expand the violin’s expressive language, and has inspired concertos from composers ranging from John Adams and  Esa-Pekka Salonen to Luca Francesconi…

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