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What does it take to make the transformation from high-profile soloist to music director of an orchestra? Just ask violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. In 2008, she joined the New Century Chamber Orchestra, a conductorless all-string ensemble based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was charged with reinvigorating the orchestra and raising its national profile. Balancing her New Century schedule with a daunting calendar of international recital and solo appearances, the violinist has thrown herself into her orchestra job with the kind of gusto you’d expect from watching her perform Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires or violin concertos by [...]
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