Vadim Gluzman
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Vadim Gluzman (born 1973 in Ukraine) is a violinist of Israeli descent who began studying the violin at the age of seven. Before moving to Israel in 1990, he studied under Zakhar Bron and later under Yair Kless in Tel Aviv. He also studied in the United States under Arkady Fomin and at the Juilliard School under the late Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki.
[edit] Career
In 1990, 16-year-old Vadim Gluzman was granted five minutes to play for the late Isaac Stern. From that meeting, a friendship was born. In 1994, Mr. Gluzman was named recipient of the prestigious Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. He now plays the extraordinary 1690 ex-Leopold Auer Stradivarius on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia and Canada as a soloist and in a duo setting with his wife, pianist Angela Yoffe.
In recent seasons, Vadim Gluzman has appeared with the Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Utah, Vancouver and Seattle symphony orchestras, Minnesota Orchestra, Munich, Dresden and Czech philharmonic orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra in the Hague, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, NHK and KBS Orchestras among others. Mr. Gluzman has collaborated with many eminent conductors such as the late Yehudi Menuhin, Neeme Järvi, Dmitri Kitajenko, James DePreist, Paavo Järvi, Marek Janowski, Jésus López-Cobos, Claus Peter Flor, James Judd and Peter Oundjian. He has also performed at important festivals such as Verbier, Ravinia, Lockenhaus, Pablo Casals, Colmar, Jerusalem, the Schwetzinger Festspiele and Festival de Radio France.
Mr. Gluzman records exclusively for the BIS label. The recording of Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano (written for Mr. Gluzman and Ms. Yoffe), released on BIS, received rave reviews, as did their second album, featuring music by Schnittke, Vasks, Pärt, and Kancheli, which was released in spring of 2004. In July 2005, a third recital with Angela Yoffe has been recorded, featuring the Shostakovich Sonata for Piano and Violin. In summer 2006 he records the Tchaikovsky and Glazunov concertos with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
