| David Radzynski, currently a graduate student at the Yale School of Music, was born in 1986 in New Haven, Connecticut, where he began studying the violin at the age of six. As a winner of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra Young Musicians Competition in 2001 (senior division), David appeared as a soloist with the orchestra in September of 2002, playing Beethoven Romance # 1, with Victor Yampolsky conducting. "The young player performed with grace and confidence," reported Barbara Zuck in her Columbus Dispatch review. In 2005 David appeared as soloist with the Polish National Philharmonic in Warsaw, playing a world premiere of Elegy for violin and strings composed by his father, Jan Radzynski. In 2006 David was awarded First Prize in the solo competition, Senior Division, of ASTA, Ohio. In recent years David performed several full length recitals at the Ohio State University and in the Columbus Museum of Art in his home town Columbus, and also at Ohio University in Athens at an invitation of the School of Music there. "His approach to performance is straightforward and focused, but the music remains deeply alive with emotion," reported Lynn Green in her Columbus Dispatch review. In the past several years David participated in various summer music programs in the US, Israel, France, Canada, England and Sweden: in the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem Summer Institute for Strings, in the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Orford ... |