Photo: Marco BorggreveVadim Gluzman
born in the former Soviet Union; trained in Latvia and Russia; Israeli since 1990
Vadim Gluzman was born in the Soviet Union in 1973 and started the violin at seven.
- Plays the 1690 ‘ex-Auer’ Stradivari
- Diapason d’Or of the Year
- Studied with Bron and DeLay
- Mentored by Isaac Stern
- Henryk Szeryng Career Award, 1994
“With the sonorous tone of his 1690 ‘Leopold Auer’ Stradivari and his dazzling technical dexterity, Vadim Gluzman makes violin playing seem effortless.”
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He studied with Roman Šnē in Latvia and Zakhar Bron in Russia, then moved to Israel in 1990 to work with Yair Kless. At Juilliard he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki; Isaac Stern mentored him until Stern’s death in 2001. He plays with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, London Symphony and Royal Concertgebouw under Riccardo Chailly, Tugan Sokhiev and Neeme Järvi.
His violin is the 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari. His BIS recordings have won a Diapason d’Or of the Year and Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice, and he has premiered works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli and Lera Auerbach. This season he makes his New York Philharmonic debut.
In March 2027 he plays Bernstein’s Serenade with the Oregon Symphony.
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