‘A delectable high range, a glorious tone, dexterity and drama to burn . . .’ The Columbus Dispatch Full Biography Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman, in technique and sensibility, harkens back to the Golden Age of violinists of the 19th and 20th centuries, while possessing the passion and energy of the 21st century. Lauded by both critics and audiences as a performer of great depth, virtuosity and technical brilliance, he has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Japan, Korea and Australia as a soloist and in a duo setting with his wife, pianist Angela Yoffe.   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. “In Gluzman’s hands, this Strad doesn’t speak: it proclaims, sings, sighs, laughs,” said The Detroit Times about Mr. Gluzman’s sensational début with the Detroit Symphony under Maestro Neeme Järvi.   ‘. . . one of the best instrumental duos of all time [Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe] . . .’ Südhessische Post In the 2006-07 season Vadim Gluzman appears with the Berlin Radio Symphony under Michael Jurowsky performing Gubaidulina’s Offertorium, which he will repeat later in the season with the Vancouver Symphony and Bergen Philharmonic. He performs in Budapest with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra , in Riga with the Latvian National Symphony under Vassily Sinaisky. Other orchestral appearances abroad in 2006-07 include the SWR Radio Symphony under Andrey Boreyko, in a world premiere of the Double Concerto for Violin and Piano by Lera Auerbach written for Mr. Gluzman and Angela Yoffe; Residentie Orchestra in Den Haag, with Neeme Järvi, the Bournemouth Symphony and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie under Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Performances in the US include Cincinnati Symphony under Paavo Järvi, Detroit and New Jersey symphonies, both under Neeme Järvi, and the symphony orchestras of Dallas, Seattle, Jacksonville, Hartford, Charlotte, El Paso and Portland, Maine.   In recent seasons, Vadim Gluzman has appeared with the Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Houston, Utah, Vancouver and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, Minnesota Orchestra, Munich, Dresden and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra in the Haague, 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, Yan Pascal Tortellier, 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 the Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano (written for Gluzman and 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. A third recital with Angela Yoffe, featuring the Shostakovich Sonata for Piano and Violin was released in March, 2006. A recital of romantic violin showpieces is scheduled for a release in the summer of 2007. Also in 2007 he records the Tchaikovsky and Glazunov concertos with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic as well as Barber, Bernstein and Bloch with the Sao Paulo Symphony.   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 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.