Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, born in 1961 in Rome, Italy, is a classical violinist and teacher. At age eight, she moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and later with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1981, Salerno-Sonnenberg became the youngest-ever prize winner in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. She received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1983 and the Avery Fisher Prize in 1999 for outstanding achievement and excellence in music. Salerno-Sonnenberg has performed with orchestras worldwide, including at the White House, and collaborated with artists such as Mandy Patinkin, Joe Jackson, and Mark O'Connor. She founded her own label, NSS Music, in 2005.
