SCOTT KLUKSDAHL
Artist-Faculty, cello University of South Florida A native of California, cellist Scott Kluksdahl made his debut with The San Francisco Symphony, and has been heard since as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in major metropolitan centers throughout the United States, Europe, Israel and Latin America.
In addition to The San Francisco Symphony, Scott Kluksdahl has appeared as guest soloist with The Boston Pops and the orchestras of Asheville, Bozeman, Kalispell, Marin, Omaha, Richmond (IN), Tampa Bay, Westerville (OH) and Wyoming, as well as Bulgaria’s Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Colombia’s Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá. He gave the premiere performances of Augusta |
Read Thomas’ Passion Prayers with the Chicago Contemporary Players and the Philadelphia Network for New Music, with whom he subsequently recorded the work, performed Ralph Shapey’s Double Concerto for Cello, Piano and Orchestra with Florence Millet at the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, and presented the world premiere of James Lewis’ Doubles Singles Variables. Israel’s Hed Music Center featured Mr. Kluksdahl in premieres of Hanoch Jacoby’s King David’s Lyre, Oedeon Partos’ Yzkor and Mourning Music and Tzvi Avni’s Khaddish, all for cello and orchestra.
As a recitalist, Scott Kluksdahl has been heard throughout the United States, including the major musical centers of New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washington, DC. 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.” Mr. Kluksdahl received national attention for his celebrated presentation of the complete Cello Suites of Bach at the Oregon Bach Festival, and he has performed the complete six-suite cycle in venues that include New York City’s St. Bartholomew’s Church, Philadelphia Bach Festival, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Tampa Bay’s historic Springs Theatre.
Scott Kluksdahl is widely esteemed as an ardent advocate of the music of our own time, and he continues to commission, premiere and record works from a widening spectrum of composers, including Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Bernard Rands, Augusta Read Thomas, David del Tredici and Richard Wernick. Recent cutting-edge recordings - “Lines for Solo Cello” (CRI) and American Piano Trios (Centaur) - have garnered widespread acclaim. Mr. Kluksdahl’s latest CD, “Sound Vessels” (Centaur), features cello-piano works of Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas and Richard Wernick.
The recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and prizes in the 1990 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition and the Washington International Competition, Scott Kluksdahl holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers were Margaret Rowell, Joel Krosnick, William Pleeth and Leonard Rose.
A dedicated teacher, himself, Scott Kluksdahl is the Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar at the University of South Florida and also serves on the faculties of Vermont’s Killington Music Festival and California Summer Music. He has been an invited soloist and guest faculty member at Indiana University and, with the Lions Gate Trio, was in residence at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Mr. Kluksdahl’s commitment to teaching prompted renowned 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.”
As a recitalist, Scott Kluksdahl has been heard throughout the United States, including the major musical centers of New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washington, DC. 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.” Mr. Kluksdahl received national attention for his celebrated presentation of the complete Cello Suites of Bach at the Oregon Bach Festival, and he has performed the complete six-suite cycle in venues that include New York City’s St. Bartholomew’s Church, Philadelphia Bach Festival, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Tampa Bay’s historic Springs Theatre.
Scott Kluksdahl is widely esteemed as an ardent advocate of the music of our own time, and he continues to commission, premiere and record works from a widening spectrum of composers, including Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Bernard Rands, Augusta Read Thomas, David del Tredici and Richard Wernick. Recent cutting-edge recordings - “Lines for Solo Cello” (CRI) and American Piano Trios (Centaur) - have garnered widespread acclaim. Mr. Kluksdahl’s latest CD, “Sound Vessels” (Centaur), features cello-piano works of Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas and Richard Wernick.
The recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and prizes in the 1990 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition and the Washington International Competition, Scott Kluksdahl holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers were Margaret Rowell, Joel Krosnick, William Pleeth and Leonard Rose.
A dedicated teacher, himself, Scott Kluksdahl is the Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar at the University of South Florida and also serves on the faculties of Vermont’s Killington Music Festival and California Summer Music. He has been an invited soloist and guest faculty member at Indiana University and, with the Lions Gate Trio, was in residence at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Mr. Kluksdahl’s commitment to teaching prompted renowned 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.”