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A Grammy®-nominated recording artist, a concert violinist since the age of four, and an award-winning performer (GOLD MEDAL at the 2017 Global Music Awards), Elmira Darvarova caused a sensation, becoming the first ever (and only so far) woman-concertmaster in the history of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. With the MET Orchestra she toured Europe, Japan and the United States, and was heard on the MET's live weekly international radio broadcasts, television broadcasts, CDs and laser discs on the Sony, Deutsche Grammophon and EMI labels. As concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera she has performed with the greatest conductors of our time, including the legendary Carlos Kleiber. She studied with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School in London (on a British Council scholarship), with Josef Gingold at Indiana Universtiy in Bloomington (as one of his assistants), and, privately, with Henryk Szeryng. Album Tracks 1. Khachaturian Sonata-Monologue for Solo Violin 2. Bodorova Dza More (Gypsy Ballad) 3. Zabarov Improvisation 4. Kathmeridou Two Minitures for Solo Violin - I. Cantabile Ad Libitum 5. Kathmeridou Two Minitures for Solo Violin - II. Allegro 6. Schnittke Praeludium in Memoriam D. Shostakovich 7. Smirnov Two Fugues for Solo Violin, Op. 6 - I. Andante 8. Smirnov Two Fugues for Solo Violin, Op. 6 - II. Moderato 9. Badinski Dialoghi Per Violino Solo - I. Calmo Ma Cambiando 10. Badinski Dialoghi Per Violino Solo - II. Vezzoso 11. Badinski Dialoghi Per Violino Solo - III. Delirando 12. Firsova Fantasia for Solo Violin 13. Soukhovetski Postcard from the Edge
