Johnny gandelsman biography
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Interview with Violinist Johnny Gandelsman: This Is America
Laurie Niles
May 16, 2022, 12:55 PM · When the pandemic struck, Brooklyn-based violinist Johnny Gandelsman was already deep into solo Bach, having recorded the Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin in 2018 and with performances lined up for 2020 of Bach’s Complete Cello Suites on the violin, which he had just recorded.
So during those locked-down days of solitude and social upheaval, while many string players turned for comfort to Bach's centuries-old works for solo violin and cello, the Grammy Award-winning Gandelsman also craved something new, to express the raw emotions brought about by these unprecedented times.
He decided to put together a major commissioning and recording project that would create a series of new works for solo violin, calling the series This Is America.
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman.
Working with funding from 20 arts organizations in 11 states and Washington, D.C., he commissi