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Leonidas Kavakos, född 1967 i Grekland, violinist, numera bosatt i USA.

1985 vann han som 18-åring International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition^[1] och 1986 erhöll han en silvermedalj i the Indianapolis International Violin Competition. Han erhöll sedan främsta priset i Naumburg Competition och the Paganini Violin Competition 1988.

Referenser

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Igor Stravinskij (1959) • Leonard Bernstein (1965) • Birgit Nilsson (1966) • Witold Lutosławski (1967) • Benjamin Britten (1968) • Boris Christoff (1969) • Sergiu Celibidache (1970) • Artur Rubinstein (1971) • Yehudi Menuhin (1972) • Dmitrij Sjostakovitj (1973) • Andrés Segovia (1974) • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1975) • Mogens Wöldike (1976) • Olivier Messiaen (1977) • Jean-Pierre Rampal (1978) • Janet Baker (1979) • Marie-Claire Alain (1980) • Mstislav Rostropovitj (1981) • Isaac Stern (1982) • Rafael Kubelík (1983) • Miles Davis (1984) • Pierre Boulez (1985) • Svjatoslav Richter (1986) • Heinz Holliger (1987) • Peter Schreier (1988) • Gidon Kremer (1989) • György Ligeti (1990) • Eric Ericson (1991) • Georg Solti (1992) • Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1993) • Krystian Zimerman (1994) • Yuri Bashmet (1995) • Per Nørgård (1996) • András Schiff (1997) • Hildegard Behrens (1998) • Sofija Gubajdulina (1999) • Michala Petri (2000) • Anne-Sophie Mutter (2001) • Alfred Brendel (2002) • György Kurtág (2003) • Keith Jarrett (2004) • John Eliot Gardiner (2005) • Yo-Yo Ma (2006) • Lars Ulrik Mortensen (2007) • Arvo Pärt (2008) • Daniel Barenboim (2009) • Cecilia Bartoli (2010) • Kaija Saariaho (2011) • Jordi Savall (2012) • Simon Rattle (2013) • Martin Fröst (2014) • Thomas Adès (2015) • Herbert Blomstedt (2016) • Leonidas Kavakos (2017) • Mariss Jansons (2018) • Hans Abrahamsen (2019) • Barbara Hannigan (2020)