Sunday 17 April programme - London Symphony Orchestra

Vadim Gluzman
Violin
Vadim Gluzman, lauded by both critics and
audiences as a performer of great depth,
virtuosity and technical brilliance, has
appeared throughout the world as a soloist
and in a duo setting with his wife, pianist
Angela Yoffe. He appears regularly with major
orchestras such as the London Philharmonic,
Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic,
San Francisco, Cincinnati, Detroit, Houston,
Vancouver and Seattle Symphony orchestras,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Deutsches
Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Minnesota
Orchestra, Munich, Dresden and Czech
Philharmonic orchestras, the Stuttgart Radio
Orchestra, NHK and KBS orchestras, among
others.
Gluzman has collaborated with some of
the world’s most prominent conductors,
including the late Yehudi Menuhin, Neeme
Järvi, Andrew Litton, Marek Janowski, Itzhak
Perlman, Peter Oundjian, Paavo Järvi, Rafael
Frühbeck de Burgos, Yan Pascal Tortelier
and Hannu Lintu. He has also performed
at many festivals such as Verbier, Ravinia,
Lockenhaus, Pablo Casals, Colmar, Jerusalem,
the Schwetzinger Festspiele and Festival de
Radio France.
In Summer 2010 Vadim Gluzman appeared
at Ireland’s West Cork Chamber Music
Festival and at Music in the Mountains
Festival in Colorado, as well as with the
Pacific Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra
(Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest) and the
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.
During this season, Vadim Gluzman performs
throughout the US, Australia, Canada, the UK
and across Europe. Among the highlights
of the season are his recital debut at
Wigmore Hall, a tour of Australia, a tour
with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra that
includes a performance at Carnegie Hall,
and appearances with the San Francisco
and Toronto symphony orchestras.
A highly acclaimed recording artist, Vadim
Gluzman’s recordings are released exclusively
on BIS Records. His most recent album,
featuring Korngold’s Violin Concerto as well
as a Concerto by Lithuanian composer Balys
Dvarionas with Neeme Järvi conducting was
selected Disc of the Month by Classics Today
on its release. A recording of Bernstein’s
Serenade, Barber’s Violin Concerto and
Bloch’s Baal Shem Suite with the São Paolo
Symphony Orchestra conducted by John
Neschling was chosen by The Strad magazine
as a Selection of the Month.
Other recordings include the Glazunov and
Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Andrew
Litton conducting the Bergen Philharmonic
(a Classic FM magazine Disc of the Month
as well as a Selection of the Month by
The Strad magazine), and Fireworks, a
collection of virtuoso violin show pieces.
Born in 1973 in the Ukraine, Vadim Gluzman
began studying the violin at the age of seven.
Before moving to Israel in 1990, he studied
under Roman Sne, Zakhar Bron and later
under Yair Kless in Tel Aviv. He also studied
in the US with Arkady Fomin and at The
Juilliard School with the late Dorothy DeLay
and Masao Kawasaki. Early in his career, he
enjoyed the encouragement and support
of Isaac Stern and in 1994 he received the
prestigious Henryk Szeryng Foundation
Career Award. Vadim Gluzman plays a 1690
ex-Leopold Auer Stradivari, on extended
loan to him through the generosity of the
Stradivari Society of Chicago.
8 The Artists Vadim Gluzman © John Kringas