SCOTT KLUKSDAHL made his debut with The San Francisco Symphony, and has been heard as chamber musician, recitalist and soloist in the United States, Europe, Israel, and Central and South America. His particular interest in modern music has led to significant affiliations with Robert Helps, Richard Wernick, Richard Brodhead, David Del Tredici and Augusta Read Thomas. He possesses a special affinity for the unaccompanied cello repertory spanning four centuries, and, following a daring unaccompanied program at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City, Strings magazine identified him as “a simply superb cellist, playing with consummate technical ease, a beautiful sound, total conviction, authority and dedication to the music.” Scott was a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio, and he performed and recorded for twenty years as its cellist. He currently is a member of the Veronika String Quartet. He has recorded on CRI, Albany, Triton, Pierian, Nimbus, and Centaur labels.
Scott has received Tanglewood’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship, prizes in Naumburg and Washington International Competitions, and degrees from Harvard and Juilliard. He holds a professorship in cello performance at the University of South Florida, where he is a Theodore and Vennetta Ashford-Askounes Distinguished Scholar. He has presented master classes at Indiana University, Northwestern University, Eastman School of Music, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His commitment to teaching prompted the legendary cellist Zara Nelsova to remark, “It is rare to find a cellist who is equally at home as a concert artist as well as a great pedagogue. In my opinion Scott Kluksdahl has one of the great talents of his generation.” He oversees a musical outreach in Tampa, based on the Rochester-based initiative ‘If Music Be the Food…’ where chamber music is the agent for raising attention and support for hunger in the Tampa Bay community. This is a collaboration between the Tampa Bay Harvest, Saint Andrew Episcopal Church, and musicians in the Florida west-coast community and their friends. Significant food and cash donations have been raised because of their efforts thus far.
MARGARET ZIEMNICKA
JON WIELDER
GLORIA WINOGRAD
JUDSON GRIFFIN Musician, baker, gardener, cat lover and numismatist!! A life of friendship and talent remembered. as concertmaster, soloist and chamber musician in New York with Concert Royal, The American Classical Orchestra, and Amor Artis, he has been guest soloist and concertmaster with the Dallas Bach Society. Frequent soloist and conductor at the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Judson served as acting music director of the Clarion Music Society. His more than sixty recordings range from the seventeenth century music to the present day.
Widely sought-after expert in historical performance, Judson toured Europe, playing concert dates and festivals. He was both a soloist and concertmaster of period instrument chamber groups and orchestras across Italy, Germany, and England on his cherished baroque violin by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, ca. 1610-20. His classical violin by Claude Pierray, a Parisian violin maker ca. 1707, was also an integral part of his mastery.