Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg

She is a United States citizen.


Career
Salerno-Sonnenberg immigrated with her family to the United States at the age of eight, relocating to Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and later with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.She has been honored with an Avery Fisher Career Grant (1983), and in 1999 she received the Avery Fisher Prize, for "outstanding achievement and excellence in music."
She was a frequent guest on NBC's The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and has also been featured on the CBS News 60 Minutes news program. In May 1999, 60 Minutes II aired a follow-up to 60 Minutes' 1986 feature about her.She has also appeared on the sitcom Dharma & Greg
Salerno-Sonnenberg has released many recordings on the Angel/Emi Classics, Nonesuch, and NSS Music labels. She has performed with orchestras around the world and played at the White House.She has also performed with such popular artists as Mandy Patinkin, Joe Jackson, and Mark O'Connor. She has frequently collaborated with the pianist Anne-Marie McDermott.
In 1989, she wrote Nadja: On My Way (ISBN-10: 051757392X.In May 1999 she received an honorary Master of Musical Arts degree from New Mexico State University, the first honorary degree that university ever awarded.
She is the subject of Paola di Florio's documentary, Speaking in Strings, released by Docurama.
She has been named the Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and will begin leading the orchestra in the fall of 2008.