Rachel Kolly d'Alba can recall being eager to learn to play the violin from her earliest days, when her parents regularly brought her along to hear concerts by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. She remembers, "I loved the solo sound, the sound of the violin emerging from the orchestra." Kolly d'Alba now can be heard as soloist with many well-known orchestras and conductors and in recital with pianist Christian Chamorel.
Kolly d'Alba began lessons at the age of five and gave her first concerto performance at 12. She was enrolled in regular school and at Lausanne's conservatory ...