From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Let's play a little game here of six degrees of separation.

What do Long, Long, David Simon, think

as Zuckerman, and Ian Anderson all have in common? That would be the woman sitting across from me,

who is violinist, supreme, and also an actress sometimes when she wants to be. I'm, of course,

talking to Lucia McIrelli. Talk to me a little bit about

this incredible life that you've had. I mean, I just named four people that you worked with.

First of all, it's an honor to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Well, as we know,

you have a low threshold for honor. But talk, you, you met Pinkauckerman, you were basically a kid, right?

I met Pinka Zuckerman when I was 17. So to back up, I started playing the violin when I was

three. And then when I was 11, I auditioned for the Juilliard School pre-college division, and I got into, I was accepted

into Juilliard Prep. So then I went to New York, and I studied with Dorothy DeLay, who was an

amazing violin pedagogue. And I studied with her until she passed away. And she passed away when I was 17, right when I was

trying to figure out where I would go to continue my music school. And I went and auditioned for

colleges, but it was really, it was just a really strange time because she, her passing, it was like,

I had never really thought about

who else I would want to study with. And, you know, in the classical world, that's a very big

thing. You sort of people, students sort of flock to certain teachers. And I had just been with her

for so long that I hadn't really ever thought about it. And then suddenly

I was auditioning for schools and she wasn't a possibility for me to continue studies with.

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