Vadim Gluzman

Vadim Gluzman was born in 1973 in Zhytomyr

Gluzman was born in 1973 in Zhytomyr, in the Soviet Union, and grew up mostly in Riga, Latvia. His father is a conductor and clarinetist, and his mother is a musicologist. He started the violin at age 7.

He studied with Roman Šnē in Latvia and Zakhar Bron in Russia. In 1990 his family moved to Israel, where he studied with Yair Kless and met Isaac Stern, who supported him early on. In the United States he studied with Arkady Fomin, and with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School.

In 1994 he won the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. He has performed with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. He has premiered works by Giya Kancheli, Pēteris Vasks, Lera Auerbach and Sofia Gubaidulina.

He plays a 1690 Stradivarius on long-term loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He teaches at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and, since 1999, at the Keshet Eilon music center. He is also Creative Partner and Principal Guest Artist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio.