- Born
- Birth nameLeila Bronia Josefowicz
- Leila Josefowicz was born on October 20, 1977 in Mississauga, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is known for Le monde est à vous (1987), The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1988) and America's Tribute to Bob Hope (1988).
- SpouseKristjan Järvi (divorced, 1 child)
- The violin she plays is a 1739 "Ebersolt" Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, which was permanently loaned to her by a Boston icthyologist and instrument collector after hearing her perform the Sibelius concerto (with the Boston Symphony conducted by Seiji Ozawa) at Carnegie Hall. All her recordings were made with this violin, except for the Tchaikovsky concerto, on a loaned Stradivarius.
- Her father, Jack, a physicist, signed up both himself and her for violin lessons when she was three. When she was five, she said to him "Maybe you should stop; you're not so good." He stopped and she continued.
- touring, fronting various orchestras with the Violin Concerto of John Adams
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