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Do I Hear A Strad?
Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman makes
his DSO debut with Tchaikovsky concerto.
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News
A
n Israeli violinist raised in
Russia, a difficult violin
concerto written by a com-
poser born in Russia and
the historic violin intended to debut
the piece more than a century ago in
Russia soon come together on the
stage of Orchestra +1211.
Twenty-nine-year-old Vadim
Gluzman will perform Tchaikovs s
Violin Concerto on a 1690 Stradivarius
as he joins the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra Jan. 16-18.
Also on the program will be Hans
Rott's Symphony in E Major, the only
piece written by the Austrian compos-
er and not performed until some 100
years after Rott's death.
"The Tchaikovsky concerto is a gor-
geous piece of music and one of my
favorites," says Gluzman, making his
debut appearance with the DSO. "The
choice to play this concerto was a deci-
sion-made with maestro Neemi Jarvi.
"Although the piece is quite diffi-
cult, the concerto has become part of
the standard violin repertoire. I don't
know how many hundreds of times I
have played it, but I can't wait to play
it every time I am asked."
Gluzman, who regularly performs
on the Stradivarius that has special
connections to this piece, uses the
instrument on extended loan from the
Stradivarius Society of Chicago.
The instrumentalist explains that
the violin, which he started playing six
years ago, belonged to Leopold Auer,
the violinist and pedagogue for whom
Tchaikovsky wrote the work in 1878.
Auer, after whom the violin is named,
taught many famous violinists, including
Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein.
"With this particular violin in his
hands, Auer worked on the concerto
and early on said it was unplayable,"
Gluzman says.
"Later, Auer realized that he was
wrong, revised some of the passages
and encouraged his students to play
the work."
•
A Perfect Fit
The first time Gluzman realized the
history of the violin, he "had to tell
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the audience. I just felt so connected
to it," he said.
"The concerto also is important to
me because Russian is my mother
tongue and Russian music is natural
for me. It's something I heard from my
childhood and studied in Russia —
even in Siberia with a special teacher."
Gluzman, the son of two professional
musicians who now teach in Israel, origi-
nally wanted to apply his talents to the
piano, but the faculty at his first Russian
music school insisted on the violin.
• "I had to go through a ferocious
audition process, and I had to show my
hands to the jury," Gluzman recalls.
"When they announced that I was
accepted, they said I was accepted for vio-
lin based on my hands.
I remember my father
trying to console me
and telling me there is
nothing wrong with
the violin.
"Now I understand
that there is a physi-
cality of playing
every instrument,
and my hands are
Vadim
very good for the vio-
Gluzman
lin. It's something
will perform
that God gave me,
on a 1690
and the jury was
Stradivarius.
smart enough [to
know]."
Gluzman continued his violin stud-
ies in Israel, where his family moved in
1990. His career accelerated after he
played for Isaac Stern and extended his
studies at the Juilliard School in New
York City.
The winner of many performance
awards, including the CIEM (Concourse
International d'Execution Musicale)
Geneva International Competition in
1994, Gluzman went on to appear in
concert halls in many distant places,
from Monaco to Tokyo, and made his
Carnegie Hall debut in 1996.
Playing From The Heart
One of Gluzman's most memorable
performances occurred in the spring of
2000, when he was the featured soloist
at the United Nations convocation for
the touring exhibit Visas for Life.
The exhibit, honoring Japanese
diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who with