Miriam Fried

Miriam Fried (born 9 September 1946)^[1][2] is a Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist and pedagogue.

Biography[]

Miriam Fried was born in Satu Mare, Romania^[2] but moved with her family to Israel when she was aged 2.^[3]

Her family settled in Herzliya. Her mother was a piano teacher.^[2] 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 with continued under her brother Lorand Fenyves at Geneva,^[2] Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School.^[2][3]

In 1968 she won the Paganini Competition in Genoa and in 1971 the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels.^[2][3]

Miriam Fried is the dedicatee and first performer of the Violin Concerto by Donald Erb. Other composers who have written works for her include Ned Rorem and .^[2]

She has recorded the complete solo sonatas and partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach, and twice recorded the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

She plays a 1718 Stradivarius believed to have been formerly owned by Louis Spohr, and also by Regina Strinasacchi, for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Sonata in B-flat, K. 454.^[3]

She has been Artistic Director and chair of the faculty at the Steans Institute for Young Artists^[4] of the Ravinia Festival since 1993. She was a member of the . She is a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory.^[5] She was Professor of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.^[2] Her students include Pekka Kuusisto and Nancy Zhou.

She gives master classes internationally.^[5] Her master classes are online available at iClassical Academy,^[6] for which she has created as well an in-depth series of Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

She is married to the violinist and violist , the son of the Russian-born cellist Raya Garbousova. Their sons are the pianist Jonathan Biss, with whom she often plays,^[2] and Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss.

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