# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonidas-kavakos
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:03:04.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonidas-kavakos"
name: "Leonidas Kavakos"
slug: "leonidas-kavakos"
description: "Leonidas Kavakos is a Greek violinist and conductor. He has won several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation scholar. He has also recorded for record labels such as Sony/BMG and BIS. As a conductor, he was an artistic director of the Camerata Salzburg and has been a guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra."
tagline: "Greek violinist and conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonidas_Kavakos_(2008)_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1967-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.041237113402062
  historical:           18.882152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 5260
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3173921"
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    handle:    "Leonidas Kavakos - Topic"
    followers: 5260
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump