Denise Soriano-Boucherit

Born in Cairo, after the death of her father, who died when she was five years old, Soriano moved with her mother and siblings to her grandfather in Tuscany and from the age of six had violin lessons with Ugo Bianchi at the Pisa Conservatory.

[1] Jules Boucherit, her professor at the Conservatoire, hid and protected her, along with other young Jewish musicians.

In December 1994, she received, in the name of her husband who died in 1962, the Righteous Among the Nations Medal that the State of Israel Yad Vashem (Committee of Jerusalem) awarded him posthumously.

[2] She played and recorded with many virtuosos, including Alfred Cortot, and Jacques Thibaud, who saw in her "the only magnificent violinist who can claim the succession of the late Ginette Neveu".

[3][4] She made her last public appearance in 2004, with the Soriano Quartet, which has performed every year since the 1990s, during the month of May, in the Marie-Antoinette Hall of the Saint-James & Albany Hotel on Rue de Rivoli in Paris.