Miriam Fried, the winner of the 1971 Queen Elizabeth of Belgium violin competition, is a 23-year-old protegee of Isaac Stern, chairman of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Born in Rumania and an Israeli since she was 2, Miss Fried took up her bow at age 8 and went on to become first violinist of Gadna, the Israeli National Youth Orchestra; soloist with the Israel Philharmonic, and top winner at the 1968 Paganini International Competition in Genoa. Since 1956 Miss Fried has been aided by the AICF Sharett Scholarship Fund, named after Moshe Sharett, the late Israeli Premier and Foreign Minister. The Fund has similarly aided such Israeli musicians as violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pinhas Zukerman and Sergiu Luca; pianists Daniel Barenboim and David Barillan, and soprano Netania Davrath. Another AICF violinist, Yehoshua Epstein, finished sixth in the 1971 Belgian competition. Miss Fried and Epstein studied at the Music Academy in Tel Aviv. Miss Fried then received a special scholarship from the AICF to come to the U.S. where she studied at Julliard and at the University of Indiana.
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