and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a member of the Loma Mar quartet, she recorded new quartet compositions by Paul McCartney for his 1999 CD entitled Working Classical (EMI Records). She was a student of Isadore Tinkelman and Stuart Canin's at the San Francisco Conservatory, and later studied with Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimer at the Curtis Institute of Music. American violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg served as New Century's Music Director from 2008 to 2017. Her professional career began in 1981 when she won the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. In 1983 she was recognized with an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 1999, she was honored with the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome and immigrated to the United States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music. She later studied with Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School. In addition to her solo career with orchestras all over the world, she has hosted the Backstage/Live from Lincoln Center program for PBS and was the subject of the 2000 Academy Award-nominated film, Speaking in Strings, a documentary on her life, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Further TV interview appearances include 60 Minutes, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and The Charlie Rose Show. She currently serves as Extraordinary Faculty/Director of Chamber Orchestra Loyola University, College of Music and Fine Arts, New Orleans after previously serving as Resident Artist. Current Music Director British violinist Daniel Hope has performed as a soloist, chamber artist, artistic director and recording artist for over 25 years. He has served as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007 and his recordings have been awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d’Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award, the Prix Caecilia, six ECHO-Klassik Awards and GRAMMY nominations. In the 2016–2017 season, Hope succeeded Sir Roger Norrington as Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and in 2019 he began his appointment as the Artistic Director of the Dresden Frauenkirche. The 2019 season was Hope's last as Associate Director of the Savannah Music Festival after serving for 16 years. Recordings The Orchestra has released seven compact discs. Three albums were recorded with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg on her own NSS Music Label including Together (November 2009) LIVE: Barber, Strauss, Mahler (November 2010) and A to Z: 21st Century Concertos (May 2014). Other recordings include a 1996 collaborative