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 appeared throughout North and South America, 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. Mr. Stern was a great influence on Gluzman both as a musician and human being, and he had the privilege of working with Stern in Israel and the United States.

In 1994, Mr. Gluzman received 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 after Mr. Gluzman’s sensational debut with the Detroit Symphony under Maestro Neeme Järvi.

In 2006-07, Gluzman appeared with the Latvian National Symphony under Vassily Sinaisky; the Berlin Radio Symphony under Michael Jurowski, performing Gubaidulina’s Offertorium; gave his first performance in Budapest with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra; and made appearances with the Vancouver Symphony and Bergen Philharmonic. Other orchestral engagements abroad in 2006-07 included the SWR Radio Symphony under Andrey Boreyko in a world premiere of the Double Concerto for Violin and Piano written for Mr. Gluzman and Angela Yoffe by Lera Auerbach; Residentie Orchestra in Den Haag with Neeme Järvi; the Bournemouth Symphony, and the Sao Paulo Symphony.  

In the United States, Gluzman has recently appeared with the Detroit and New Jersey symphonies, both under Neeme Järvi, and the symphony orchestras of Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Jacksonville, Hartford, Charlotte, El Paso and Portland (ME). He has performed with the Boston Pops and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, and played recitals at the Kennedy Center and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gluzman’s international career has taken him throughout Europe, performing under Paavo Järvi at Estonia’s David Oistrakh Festival, with the Dresden and Bergen Philharmonics, Tampere Orchestra in Finland, Nancy in France, Beethovenhalle Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, Mainz Orchestra, and the orchestras of Luxembourg, Pamplona, Strassbourg and Berlin. In 2003, he and Angela Yoffe collaborated with the legendary choreographer, John Neumeier, in the world premiere of composer Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano in adaptation for the Hamburg Ballet. He has appeared in Russia, Israel and Turkey, and in Asia he has performed with the NHK, Hiroshima and Tokyo symphonies, Tokyo Philharmonic, Korea’s KBS Symphony, and has given recitals in Tokyo and Nagoya. He has toured Australia, playing with orchestras in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Tasmania.   

A laureate at the Corpus Christi International Competition, the Irving Klein International Competition (San Francisco), the Tibor Varga International Competition in Switzerland, and the Geneva International Competition, Vadim Gluzman was born in 1973 in the city of Zhitomir, Ukraine into a family of professional musicians, Mr. Gluzman began studying the violin at the age of seven. Before moving to Israel in 1990, he studied with Zakhar Bron and later with Yair Kless at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv. He has also studied in the United States with Arkady Fomin and in the Juilliard School with the late Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Mr. Gluzman, his wife and daughter make their home in the Chicago area.