Johnny Gandelsman: JS Bach Cello Suites (transcribed for violin)

Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman's musical voice reflects the artistic collaborations he has been a part of since moving to the United States from Moscow in 1995. Richard Brody of the New Yorker has called Gandelsman “revelatory” in concert, placing him in the company of “radically transformative” performers like Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin, and Christian Zacharias.

As a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny has closely worked with such luminaries as Bela Fleck, Martin Hayes, Kayhan Kalhor, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Anne Sofie Van Otter, Alim Qasimov & Fargana Qasimova, Joshua Redman, Suzanne Vega, Abigail Washburn and Damian Woetzel. He has appeared with Bono, David Byrne, Renee Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, I'm With Her, Christian McBride, and many others, and has premiered dozens of new works, including music by Lisa Bielawa, Tyondai Braxton, Daniel Cords, Christina Courtin, Reena Esmail, Bela Fleck, Gabriela Lena Frank, Bill Frisell, Osvaldo Golijov, Gonzalo Grau, Ethan Iverson, Vijay Iyer, Colin Jacobsen, Gabriel Kahane, Rubin Kodheli, Angel Lam, Ljova, Dana Lyn, Nico Muhly, Padma Newsome, Shara Nova, Edward Perez, Matana Roberts, Kyle Sanna, Gregory Saunier, Caroline Shaw, Kojiro Umezaki, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Du Yun, Evan Ziporyn, and John Zorn.
 
Johnny has been producing records since starting his label, In a Circle Records, in 2008. Recent credits include Brooklyn Rider's Spontaneous Symbols (In a Circle, 2017); Johnny's own recording of the complete sonatas and partitas for violin by JS Bach (In a Circle, 2018) and two albums with Silkroad Ensemble and Yo-Yo Ma: Music for The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (In a Circle, 2017); and Sing Me Home, a Grammy winner for Best World Music album (Sony, 2016)