| AWARDS AND HONORS (SELECTED) |
| 2008 - |
Cover story, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine |
| 2008 - |
Winner, Best Classical Entertainer, Chicago Music Awards |
| 2007 - |
Making a Difference in the Lives of Children Through Music Award, Music for Life Alliance |
| 2007 - |
UK debut (concert tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra) |
| 2007 - |
First performances in Africa, including for the President of Ghana to celebrate Ghana’s 50th anniversary of independence |
| 2007 - |
First performances in Singapore, including a concert for the President |
| 2007 - |
Winner, Best Classical Entertainer, Chicago Music Awards |
| 2006 - |
Winner, Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, Illinois Humanities Council (nominated by Chicago’s Mayor Daley for charitable work in music education) |
| 2005 - |
Special performance at the U.S. Supreme Court for the Justices and their friends |
| 2005 - |
Joined the Board of Governors, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Chicago (Midwest Regional) Chapter |
| 2005 - |
World premiere of a sonata fragment by Beethoven, broadcast live on radio and internet |
| 2004 - |
Winner, Best Classical Entertainer, Chicago Music Awards |
| 2004 - |
Nominee, Best Engineered Album, GRAMMY Awards (for “Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos”) |
| 2003 - |
Inducted as Honorary Member, Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity |
| 2003 - |
Inducted as Honorary Member, Musicians Club of Women, Chicago |
| 2003 - |
Winner, Best Classical Entertainer, Chicago Music Awards |
| 2002 - |
Recipient of the “ex-Soldat” Guarneri del Gesu |
| 2002 - |
Rachel Barton Pine Violin Chair named, Music Institute of Chicago |
| 2002 - |
Nominee, Peabody Award (for radio performance featuring works of living composers) |
| 2002 - |
Performance, Concert for Peace in Washington Square Park, New York |
| 2000 - |
First concert tour of New Zealand, with the New Zealand Symphony |
| 1999 - |
Chicagoan of the Year, Chicago Tribune |
| 1999 - |
National Anthem, Chicago Cubs |
| 1999 - |
Profile, CBS Sunday Morning |
| 1998 - |
Jammed in concert with Kansas as a special guest on Dust in the Wind |
| 1998 - |
House Resolution, Illinois Congress |
| 1998 - |
National Anthem, Inaugural Home Opening Game, Chicago Fire |
| 1998 - |
Nominee, National Public Radio Heritage Award (for "Concertos by Black Composers" album) |
| 1997 - |
Opened for Slash and Sammy Hagar at Chicago’s House of Blues |
| 1997 - |
Performance, Inaugural Dinner for Cardinal Francis George |
| 1997 - |
National Anthem, Inauguration of Interleague Play, Chicago Cubs |
| 1996 - |
Performance, Opening Ceremony, Paralympic Games, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1996 - |
Torchbearer, Olympic Torch Relay |
| 1996 - |
National Anthem, Democratic National Convention |
| 1996 - |
National Anthem, Chicago Bulls playoff game |
| 1996 - |
“In the Limelight,” Yearbook, People Magazine |
| 1995 - |
Performed with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in concert |
| 1995 - |
Chicagoan of the Year, Chicago Magazine |
| 1995 - |
Woman of the Year, Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine |
| 1995 - |
National Anthem, Chicago Bulls playoff game |
| 1995 - |
Cover Story, Arts and Entertainment section, New York Times |
| 1995 - |
Profile, The Today Show |
| 1995 - |
Profile, People Magazine |
| 1995 - |
First recording is released (“Homage to Sarasate,” Dorian Recordings) |
| 1993 - |
Paganini Caprice Prize, Paganini International Violin Competition, Genoa, Italy, age 18 |
| 1993 - |
Bronze Medal, Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, Brussels, Belgium, age 18 |
| 1992 - |
Gold Medal, J.S. Bach International Violin Competition, Leipzig, Germany (first American and youngest winner), age 17 |
| 1992 - |
Second Prize, Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition, Vienna, age 17 |
| 1992 - |
Second Prize and Paganini Caprice Prize, Joseph Szigeti International Violin Competition, Budapest, age 17 |
| 1985 - |
First performances as soloist with Chicago Symphony, age 10, as first prize winner of the Illinois Young Performers Competition |
| 1984 - |
Performance, Carnegie Hall, as featured soloist on a program with a violin group, age 9 |
| 1983 - |
Performance, The Vatican for Pope John Paul II, as featured soloist on a European tour with a violin group, age 8 |
| 1982 - |
Debut as soloist with orchestra, Chicago String Ensemble, age 7 |
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