Nikolaj Znaider

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Nikolaj Znaider (born July 5, 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish violinist, celebrated as one of the foremost violinists of today.^{[citation needed]} Nikolaj Znaider is regularly invited to work with the world's leading orchestras.

[edit] Career

Born to a Danish mother and a Polish-Israeli father , Znaider studied with the eminent Russian pedagogue Boris Kushnir and drawing on this eclectic background his playing has been heralded in the Strad Magazine as "extraordinarily intelligent, soulful and impassioned, yet without a hint of indulgence" and the Chicago Tribune said "Perhaps not since the young Gidon Kremer burst upon the violin world in 1970 has a violinist caused quite the stir of Nikolaj Znaider"

In June 1992 at the age of 16 he won the first prize of the 4th International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition, and in 1997 he received one of the most respected and recognized prizes in the violin world: the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.

Znaider is passionate about the education of musical talent and is Founder and Artistic Director of the Nordic Music Academy, an annual summer school whose vision is to create conscious and focused musical development based on quality and commitment.