Polish-British female violinist born in 1928. She won the Polish prize on violin on the Wieniawsky contest at 7 years old. She's still playing and teaching. Considered one of the greatest female violinists of past century. Her recordings are of first quality. Who is she?

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Ida Haendel http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001486 Mar 01 08, 6:15 AM

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Ida Haendel (1928- ). Violinist, b Chelm, Poland, 15 Dec 1928, naturalized British 1940; hon FRCM 2000, hon D MUS (McGill) 2006. A child prodigy, Haendel was taken at four to study with Mieczyslaw Michalowicz at the Chopin School in Warsaw; she attracted attention as winner of the Polish prize in the first Wieniawski Competition (1935), a contest in which Ginette Neveu won first prize and David Oistrakh second in the international category. As a child Haendel studied in Paris and London with Carl Flesch and Georges Enesco. Moving with her parents to London prior to the outbreak of World War II, she soon became active in the British musical scene and during the war gave many recitals for the troops. Specializing in the concerto repertoire, she performed with Beecham, Boult, Goossens, Harty, Sargent, and Wood and such continental conductors as Munch, Klemperer, Dobrowen, Solti, Markevitch, and Kletzki. Her recording career began in 1943 with Decca, for which company she recorded the Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Dvoøák concertos, among others. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001486 Mar 01 08, 6:20 AM