| Diana LeGrand Sundsvold was born in 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Studying with her mother, she started to play the violin and the piano at 2 1/2
years of age. She traveled extensively around the world with her family until settling
in Italy
where she studied with the Russian virtuoso Vadim Brodsky. In 1994 she was
accepted into the high school program of the prestigious North Carolina School
of the Arts (NCSA) where she studied with the late Elaine Richey (former 1st
violinist of the Razamousky Quartet). In 1997 she entered the Undergraduate
program with a full scholarship studying with Robert Mann (founding member of
the Julliard String Quartet and former 1st violinist) and with Nicholas Mann
(2nd violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet) and received her Bachelor of
Music in Violin Performance in June 2000. In July of 2000 she received, with an
excellent evaluation, her diploma in Violin Performance from the Conservatory
of Modena, Italy.
That same summer she toured Europe
as a soloist with the International Music Program of NCSA. In the fall of 2000,
she was accepted with a full scholarship into the Graduate Program of NCSA and
in June of 2002 received her Master of Music in Violin Performance. She performs extensively as a soloist,
chamber musician, and orchestra player in Italy
and the United States of
America.
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