Education
She studied first with her parents since the age of three with Priscilla and Gunther Paetsch, then with Ivan Galamian at Meadowmount and later with Szymon Goldberg at Yale University and at the Curtis Institute of Music.
She studied first with her parents since the age of three with Priscilla and Gunther Paetsch, then with Ivan Galamian at Meadowmount and later with Szymon Goldberg at Yale University and at the Curtis Institute of Music.
She is known for being the first female in the world to have recorded all 24 Paganini Caprices for solo violin. She made her debut as a soloist at the age of eleven with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Since then, she has been performing as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in the major musical centres of the world, including New York"s Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Library of Congress in Washington.
She has also played in major festivals such as the Marlboro, Tokyo, Davos, Berlin (Brandenburg Summer Concerts), Banff, Boulder, and "Mostly Mozart" in New New York
She has been invited as soloist with the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonics of Osaka, Japan, Seoul, Liège and Bergen. The National Orchestra of Belgium, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Residentie Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony, among others
She has performed under such conductors as Kent Nagano, Dimitrij Kitajenko, Horst Stein and Myung-Whun Chung. As a soloist of international repute she has performed in concert with, among others, the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra in London, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig Germany, the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, the Hallé Orchestra Manchester, Louisiana Suisse Romande and Montreal.