Louis Symphony Orchestra. He won a Grammy Award in 1993. He plays a 300 year old violin that he purchased for almost $4 million. He received the Avery Fisher Prize in 2007 and also joined the faculty at his alma matter as a senior lecturer. In 2011 he became the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. His 2007 experiment for the Washington Post earned him a Pulitzer Prize and national attention. He posed as a street performer in Washington D.C. During this experiment few stopped to listen to him and he earned barely over $30 in tips. He has three children and three sisters.