Charles Neidich, winner of the first Walter W. Naumburg Competition for clarinet in 1985, is recognized as one of the most versatile clarinet soloists performing in the world today. Hailed as a master of the clarinet and beyond by critics and audiences alike, he is also winner of the 1982 Munich International Competition, SIlver Medalist in the 1979 Geneva International Competition, and one of three Grand Prize winners in the 1984 Accanthes International Competition, Paris. His recent major appearances have included guest appearances with the Jupiter Symphony and the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, two recitals with oboist Heinz Holliger at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the Kennedy Center wtih their Chamber Music Players, performances with the Da camera Society of Houston, on tour in Japan with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and return engagement reticals. Charles Neidich has performed throughout Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union. Among many recital appearances he has been heard most notably at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and Chicago's Ravinia Festival with pianist James Levine. His concerto appearances have included such as wtih the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, the Latvian Philharmonic, the American Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Spokane Symphony, the Kanagawa Philharmonic in Tokyo. He has been to Japan 10 times, twice at the invitation of the Buffet Crampon Company. An active proponent of contemporary music, Mr. Neidich has premiered works of many of the United States' and Europe's preeminent composers including Milton Babbitt, William Schuman, Ralph Shapey, Meyer Kupferman, Edison Denisov, Joan Tower, and Vassillii Lobanov. He performed the world premiere of Joan Tower's clarinet concerto with the American Symphony at Carnegie Hall in April 1988. Mr. Neidich's debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon is the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and his recording of the Mozart and Weber Clarinet Quintets with the Mendelssohn String Quartet has been released on Music Masters as part of the Naumburg Award. A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich, at the age of seven and a half, and continued them with the renowned teacher, Leon Russianoff, and later in Moscow with Boris Dikov. He is currently a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the New York Woodwind Quintet, and the Aeolian Chamber Players. From 1985 to 1989 he was professor of clarinet at the Eastman School of Music, and is currently on the faculty of SUNY Stony Brook, the Juilliard School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and Brooklyn College CUNY. In 1975, he was the first American to receive a Fulbright Grant to study in the Soviet Union. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he received the Selden Award for outstanding musicianship and scholarship, an dof the Moscow State Conservatory. Charles Neidich's interests have extended beyond the field of music; he holds a BA cum laude in Anthropology from Yale University. -- http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/neidich --

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