Three of the four also are women, a fact that Larionoff finds purely coincidental.

“The concertmaster job is genderless,” she explains. “Gender has nothing to do with leadership.”

Larionoff says that Kavafian and she share another element besides the concertmaster chair: a passion for shopping.

“The Consumer Spending Index rose last week when Ani was here,” she jokes. “Nordstrom stock probably went up.”

(RTWT)