Jaime Laredo

Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941, in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a Grammy-award-winning American violinist, violist, conductor, and music educator of Bolivian heritage. He is also the president of the jury of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laredo entered the international classical music scene at age 17 in 1959 when he won First Prize for violin at the International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium. Since then, Laredo has had an uninterrupted and celebrated 65-year career in classical symphonic and chamber music, mostly in the United States, as a violinist, violist, conductor, and educator, receiving numerous accolades, awards and honors.