In more than forty years before the public Jaime Laredo has excelled in the multiple rôles of soloist, conductor, recitalist and chamber musician. As a conductor and soloist he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, New York String Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, St Louis Symphony, the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Philharmonic and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has been Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra since 1999. Jaime Laredo is currently the Linda and Jack Gill Chair Professor in Violin at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington. Other affiliations include Artistic Director of New York’s Chamber Music at the Y series, the annual New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, and the Brandenberg Ensemble.