Love in the halls of the Juilliard School. That's where it started for a pair of violin students named Adele Anthony and Gil Shaham. Reportedly, it took Shaham quite a while to pluck (sorry!) up the courage to ask Anthony out. That was back in 1991 when Shaham's star was already rising as a young virtuoso with a couple of acclaimed big label albums under his belt. Anthony would go on to win the Carl Nielsen Violin Competition in 1996 and the following year collaborated with Shaham on a recording of Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa. The couple married in 1998. They are raising their three young kids on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In 2009 they released a Sarasate album together for Canary Classics, the label Shaham founded in 2004.

"We don't play together very often, but when we do, we really have similar musical tastes, luckily," Anthony told Violinist.com. "The nature of our relationship is not competitive, so we have a lot of fun. It's nice to play with someone you know so well, and you don't have to work on the more fundamentals."