Leila Josefowicz

Canadian-born violinist Leila Bronia Josefowicz began attracting attention through her playing from the age of ten. Her Polish father is a physicist; her English mother, Wendy, is a geneticist. The family moved to California when Leila was still a toddler, and her upbringing and education are American. Her family enrolled her in a Suzuki violin class, where she learned on a baby-sized violin. She loved the instrument. Her teachers discovered that she had perfect pitch. Even more, she had a strong desire to work at improving her playing, which even her scientist father said wa...