The USC Symphony Orchestra's season finale will feature violinist Vadim Gluzman at 7:30 p.m. April 18 in the Koger Center for the Arts. He will perform Lalo's Symphonie Espagnol. The orchestra also will present Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony). Donald Portnoy directs.
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Gluzman has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia, and Canada as a soloist and in a duo setting with his wife, pianist Angela Yoffe. Born in 1973 in the Ukraine, 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.
In 1990, 16-year-old Gluzman was granted five minutes to play for the late Isaac Stern. From that meeting, a friendship was born. In 1994, Gluzman was named recipient of the prestigious Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. He now plays a 1690 ex-Leopold Auer Stradivarius on extended loan to him through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Valet parking will be available for the concert for $5 through Southern Valet starting at 6:15 p.m. The pre-concert chat with Neil Casey, assistant conductor, begins at 6:45 p.m. in the Koger Center.
Subscriptions for the symphony's 2006-07 season will be available in the lobby April 18. Anyone who subscribes by May 1 will be eligible to win two additional subscriptions for family or friends.
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