“…music-making of unusually high quality – the sort of playing which comes only from understanding, love, painstaking care, and, quite simply, great ability.” — The Guardian, London
For over six decades, Jaime Laredo has excelled in the roles of soloist, conductor, recitalist, pedagogue and chamber musician. Since his orchestral debut at the age of eleven with the San Francisco Symphony, he has won the admiration and respect of audiences, critics and fellow musicians with passionate and polished performances. At 17, Laredo won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition, launching his rise to international prominence. For 45 years, Laredo toured as a member of the beloved Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and in 2022 launched the new piano quartet, Espressivo!, with Anna Polonsky, Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt and Sharon Robinson.
In 2025-26, Laredo brought recital and chamber repertoire to the International Festival Pau Casals in Spain and led orchestral programs in New York’s Carnegie Hall.
He continues to premiere the new piano quartet, Joy Steppin’, written for Espressivo! by Nokuthula Ngwenyama, throughout the United States.
Conducting and performing highlights include the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and San Francisco symphonies, Los Angeles and New York philharmonics, and The Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, among many others. Acclaimed premieres of Double Concertos written specifically for Laredo and his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, are particularly memorable. He has appeared with the London and BBC Symphonies, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with which he made numerous bestselling recordings, as well as orchestras around the globe.
Laredo has recorded nearly one hundred discs, including a Grammy Award-winning disc of Brahms Piano Quartets with Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma. His recordings range from collaborations with Glenn Gould, to double concertos with violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist Sharon Robinson plus award-winning recordings with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. A 23-CD box set on Sony Classical and five episodes of Exploring Music on WFMT celebrate Laredo’s extraordinary legacy.
Laredo’s stewardships of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, which he conducted from 1993-2025, and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis have become beloved educational pillars of the musical community. A revered pedagogue, he held longtime teaching posts on the faculties of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University and Curtis Institute. Mr. Laredo and Sharon Robinson were Distinguished Artists-in-Residence at Oberlin Conservatory for the 2025-2026 academic year.
He is Co-Artistic Director of Cincinnati’s Linton Chamber Music and the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle. He recently completed 20 years as Music Director of the Vermont Symphony and held the post of Artistic Director of the Chamber Music at the Y series in New York for 40 years. Born in Bolivia, Jaime Laredo currently resides in Vermont.
