Currently Professor Music at Boston University, Roman Totenberg was born in 1911 in Poland and was a child prodigy and made his debut as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11 in 1923. He studied with Carl Flesch in Berlin where he won the International Mendelssohn Prize in 1932. He debuted in London and New York in 1935. He has given many concerts comprising the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas and all Brandenburg concertos. He gave the American premiere of Honegger’s Sonate for violin solo. Under violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he and pianist Adolph Ballere and cellist Gabor Rejto formed the Alma Trio in 1942-43. He has performed with such great conductors as Stokowski and Rodzinski and others and has appeared at the White House and Carnegie Hall and every major European city. In 1983 he was named Artist Teacher of the Year by the American String Teachers Association. In 1988 he was awarded the highest Medal of Merit by the Polish Government for his life-long contributions to Polish society.