- She has retired from the San Francisco Conservatory and continues to reside at her Camano Island residence off the northwest coast of the state of Washington, USA. (July 2007)
- Her father was a Norwegian-born violinist, and her mother was a pianist.
- In 1958, she left the stage to be with her family, which eventually included five children.
- When she was 7, she played a Mozart violin concerto in her hometown of Long Beach, California. At age 10, she was studying at the Juilliard School in New York. After appearing with the New York Philharmonic at 18, she embarked on an international career, giving hundreds of concerts over the next decade with the world's leading orchestras.
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