Visitor will give recital

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 24

Visitor will give recital

Jack Glatzer, a noted i American violinist, will give a lunch-time recital in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre at 1.10 p.m. today. Afterwards he will give a master class for violinists at the School of Music. The recital will be free to members of the public, and a limited number of observers will be accepted to the master class.

Mr Glatzer specialises in recitals of unaccompanied violin music. Today’s programme consists of the Sonata for Solo Violin, by Bartok, and four of Paganini’s Caprices. Jack Glatzer began studying violin at the age of five. He gave his first recital at 13, and appeared as a soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra a year later. He has been the recipient of many awards, among them first prize in the Merriwether Post Competition in Washington, America’s most important competition for young musicians. As a result, he was invited to perform the Brahms Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Glatzer particularly enjoys playing the technically difficult works of Bach and Paganini. He performs on a beautiful 1728 Guamerius del Gesu.

He has given concerts throughout Europe and North America, as well as appearing on radio and television. Some of Europe’s leading music festivals, such as the Casals Festival, the Settiman Musicali de Stressa, and the Menton Festival, have provided settings and audiences for Glatzer’s artistry. In addition, the violinist devotes part of each year to performing an average of 200 youth concerts in major North American cities, as well as remote areas such as Labrador, Iceland, and Mozambique. Once a student of such

masters as Leonard Posner, Joseph Fuchs, Sandor Vegh, and Maxim Jacobsen, in 1973 Glatzer himself taught master classes at the Boston Conservatory, the University of Calgary, and the University of Nevada.