Scott Kluksdahl

Scott Kluksdahl is an American cellist active as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. A graduate of Harvard and Juilliard, he received Tanglewood's Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and prizes in the Naumburg and Washington International competitions. He was a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio, with which he performed and recorded for twenty years, and has also played in the Veronika String Quartet. His work with living composers includes commissions and recordings of music by David Del Tredici, Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas and Richard Wernick. He premiered Philip Lasser's Vocalise for cello and orchestra with the Boston Pops and has taught cello at the University of South Florida. Webber, Chuchkov and Gershwin made up the Sofia Philharmonic's programme of 24 March 2005, in which Scott Kluksdahl appeared beside Ina Kancheva, Boyko Tsvetanov, Carolyn Stuart and Svetozar Ivanov, in an evening prepared by Lyuba Pesheva and Adriana Blagoeva.