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James Buswell,
Violinist
 James
Buswell has performed as a solo violinist with virtually all of
the major orchestras in North America, and throughout Europe,
Asia, South America, and Australia as well. In this capacity, he
has appeared in over one-hundred solo works for violin and
orchestra.
His regular professional activities also include solo and
chamber music recitals, conducting, teaching, lecturing, and
writing. In recital, he is noted for adventuresome programming,
regularly combining standard masterpieces with works off the
beaten path.
Early in his career he was an artist-member of the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center in New York. The music of Johann
Sebastian Bach has played a large role in Buswell's life. He
narrated and performed in a documentary for the PBS network
entitled "The Stations of Bach," and also released a recording
of the complete solo sonatas and partitas on the Centaur label.
Buswell is well known for championing new music, including
neglected masterpieces from the 20th century. On the Naxos
label, he recorded award-winning CDs of the Samuel Barber
concerto and the concerti of Walter Piston and received a Grammy
nomination for his recording of the Samuel Barber violin
concerto. World premiere performances include works by Charles
Wuorinen, Donald Erb, Ned Rorem, Leon Kirchner, John Harbison,
and Yehudi Wyner.
Recent travels for concerts, masterclasses, and international
competition adjudications have taken him to to Korea, Taiwan,
Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Germany, Ukraine,
and the Czech Republic.
Buswell's early training was at the Juilliard School where he
was a pupil of Ivan Galamian, and he continued his studies at
Harvard University where he majored in Renaissance Art.
He and his wife, cellist, Carol Ou, reside in Boston where he is
Professor of Violin at New England Conservatory, and gives an
annual recital in NEC's Jordan Hall. The unanimous praise for
his "sensitive, evocative, compelling playing" continues
unabated today.
The Juilliard School, Harvard University. Violin with Paul
Stassevitch and Ivan Galamian. Former faculty of Indiana
University. Former Artist-in-residence, Gordon College.
Recordings on Centaur and Naxos. |
