Vadim Gluzman (Violin soloist) Vadim Gluzman is a world leader in contemporary violin performance.
The musician was born in Ukraine in 1973, and has lived
in Israel since 1990. He studied violin in Russia under Zakhar Bron,
in Israel under Yair Kless and in the USA under Arkady
Fomin, Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Under the latter two teachers
he studied at the Juilliard School in New York. Early in his
career the young musician received influential support from Isaac Stern.
In 1994 Vadim Gluzman was awarded the prestigious Henryk Szeryng
Foundation Prize. The musician regularly appears with the world’s
leading orchestras, among them the London Symphony, the London
Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic,
the Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco Symphony
Orchestras, Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester and the NHK (Tokyo)
and KBS (Seoul) Symphony Orchestras. On an annual basis he appears
with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia in Moscow.
Vadim Gluzman has collaborated with such internationally acclaimed
conductors as Yehudi Menuhin, Neeme Jдrvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Andrew Litton,
Marek Janowski, Paavo Jдrvi, Rafael Frьhbeck de Burgos, Itzhak Perlman, Hannu
Lintu, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Claus Peter Flor, James Gaffigan, Peter Oundjian,
Vasily Sinaisky, Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Mikhail Jurowski
and Tugan Sokhiev among others. Gluzman is a welcome guest at
prestigious music festivals in Verbier, Ravinia, Colmar, Jerusalem,
the BBC Proms in London, the Pablo Casals de Prades
Festival and the Festival of Radio France in Montpellier.
The musician frequently appears in duets with his wife,
the pianist Angela Yoffe. Since 2010 the couple have run their own
chamber music festival North Shore in Illinois.
The musician’s engagements for the 2014–2015 season include debuts
with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Cleveland Orchestra (Prokofiev’s
Second Violin Concerto under Tugan Sokhiev), the Orchestre National de
France, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the National
Orchestra of Belgium in addition to appearances with
the philharmonic orchestras of Dresden and Seoul, the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra (Edinburgh Festival), the Philharmonie Dresden,
the chamber ensembles Moscow Virtuosi and I Musici de
Montrйal and recitals in Paris, Geneva, St Petersburg
and Hamburg. This season Vadim Gluzman will also continue his
collaboration with the chamber orchestra ProMusica (Columbus,
Ohio) as Principal Guest Artist. Vadim Gluzman is a dedicated supporter
of music by contemporary composers, among them Arvo Pдrt, Pзteris
Vasks, Lera Auerbach, Giya Kancheli, Michael Daugherty, Sofia Gubaidulina,
Menachem Wiesenberg and Richard Rodney Bennett. Recently he performed
the premieres of Michael Daugherty’s violin concerto Fire
and Blood (with the London Symphony Orchestra under Kristjan
Jдrvi) and Balys Dvarionas’ Violin Concerto (with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra under Thomas Sanderling). The musician has an exclusive
recording contract with Sweden’s BIS Records. His recordings have received
Diapason d’Or and Choc prizes, and on numerous
occasions have been named “Disc of the Month”
by the magazines Gramophone, Classica, BBC Music Magazine, Classic
FM and The Strad. Journalists have compared Gluzman’s
performances to interpreters of the violin’s “golden age” such as
Fritz Kreisler and David Oistrakh. Gluzman recently recorded an album
of music by Prokofiev including two sonatas by the composer
and a transcription of music from the ballet Romeo
and Juliet. Vadim Gluzman performs a 1690 violin crafted
by Antonio Stradivari that previously belonged to Leopold Auer,
presented to him by the Stradivari Society in Chicago.
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