James Ehnes
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James Ehnes (born January 27, 1976 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a Canadian concert violinist.
The son of Alan Ehnes, a trumpeter and music teacher, James Ehnes began playing violin by the age of five. He won numerous competitions in Canada as a teen and in 2001, he won the Juno Award for Best Classical Album. In January 2002 Ehnes was named Young Artist of the Year at the Cannes Classical Awards in Cannes, France.
James Ehnes graduated from the Juilliard School in 1997 where he was a student of Sally Thomas and is now a high- profile international performer and one of the most prolific recording artists in any style of music (with a total seventeen recordings in 2006). He plays on the 1715 "Ex Marsick Stradivarius" which belongs to the Fulton Collection.
His recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices, made for Telarc in 1995, is internationally acclaimed to be the first able to compete against (and most probably surpass) Itzhak Perlman's legendary 1972 recording of this set of incredibly difficult pieces.
"One of the most gifted and sincerely expressive artists to have emerged in recent times" (The Daily Telegraph, London)
