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Since 1999, Fried has
convened an ensemble
of recent RSMI alumni
every spring to embark
upon a national tour,
even traveling to Cuba
for performances and
master classes. These
tours have featured
violinist InMo Yang,
violists Shira Majoni
and Dana Kelley, and
cellist Haran Meltzer
in 2016 (above, left
to right); violinist Je
Hye Lee, cellist Narek
Hakhnazaryan, pianist
Michael Brown, and
violist Vicki Powell in
2011 (left top, left to
right); and violinist
Maria Ioudenitch,
cellist Zlatomir Fung,
and violists Zoë
Martin-Doike and
Zhanbo Zheng this
spring (left bottom,
left to right).
“
It’s one thing to waltz in here
and teach and leave, but it’s quite
another to be responsible for so
much of what happens here
.
”
students’ colleagues—who say that their
summers there completely changed the
way they thought about music. Having
that e ect on people for years is truly
wonderful.”
Winner of the Paganini Competition
in
and the Queen Elisabeth Music
Competition in
, Fried has enjoyed
a top-drawer solo career, performing
with many of the world’s major orches-
tras. e Israeli violinist is particularly
known for her interpretations of Bach’s
sonatas and partitas for solo violin, per-
forming them twice at Ravinia (in
and
) and recording them for the
Lyrinx label in
and again for Nim-
bus in
, following a year’s intense
study. She even created an online video
course about the works, much like her
son has for Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
Fried began teaching in
at Indi-
ana University and has held a full-time
post at the New England Conservatory
since
. “I love teaching,” she says. “I
really do. I’m not a missionary, so it’s not
a mission in that sense. But I do believe
that the most signi cant way you can re-
ally impart your beliefs about [the fun-
damentals of] the profession is through
teaching.” at reach extended in
when Fried was invited to join the RSMI
faculty. Because she has been a cham-
ber-music devotee since she was ,
including a -year stint as rst violinist
of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, she
thought the program was a good t for
her. Two years later, her manager got a
call wondering if she would be willing to
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