Paganini Competition
Shunsuke Sato, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Angèle Dubeau, Pierre Ménard, Dmitri Berlinsky, Nigel Kennedy, Alyssa Park, Yoon Kwon, Misha Keylin, Shlomo Mintz, Gil Shaham, Dezso and Tibor Vaghy (of the Vaghy String Quartet), Fudeko Takahashi, Ayako Yonetani, William Fitzpatrick, Vilhelmas Čepinskis, Brian Lewis, and Li Chuan Yun, Brian Dembow (violist of the Grammy Award-winning Angeles String Quartet), among others. She also taught many significant orchestral musicians and pedagogues, such as Simon Fischer, author of "Basics"; Paul Kantor, pedagogue at Rice University; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Robert Chen; Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond; violinist and pedagogue Anton Miller; Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster David Kim; Liu Yang, and Lü Siqing, first Asian violinist to win 1st Prize at the Paganini Competition in Italy, Masao Kawasaki, Hyo Kang, Naoko Tanaka, among others.