卡素文
Charles Castleman
小提琴 Violin
查理斯·卡素文於2015年被佛羅里達州邁阿密大學弗羅斯特音樂學院委任為全職小提琴教授。他過去四十年為伊士曼音樂學院的小提琴教授，曾擔任該學院之弦樂系系主任八年。
卡素文是當今全球最活躍的小提琴演奏家和小提琴教育家。他是享負盛名的卡素文四重奏課程的創辦人兼總監，四重奏課程成立至今已有47年，主要於暑期舉辦獨奏和室樂訓練工作坊。
他多年來曾替多個樂團擔任獨奏，包括費城、波士頓、布里斯班、芝加哥、香港、莫斯科、墨西哥城、紐約、三藩市、首爾、上海等管弦樂團。曾跟隨卡素文深造的學生遍及全球，他曾在倫敦、維也納、赫爾辛基、基輔、香港、上海、北京、首爾、東京，以及澳洲、加拿大、紐西蘭的各大城市主持過大師班。
卡素文是十六位福特基金會音樂會藝術家的其中一員，曾被委約與指揮史拉特金和聖路易交響樂團合作首演大衛·阿姆蘭的小提琴協奏曲。他曾灌錄多首困難的小提琴曲目，包括易沙意的六首無伴奏小提琴奏鳴曲、胡拜為小提琴與管弦樂團而作的八首查爾達斯舞曲、薩拉沙泰的十首經曲作品以及大量室樂作品，他曾為著名的拉斐爾三重奏成員之一。卡素文是柴可夫斯基比賽和布魯塞爾比賽的得獎者，為慶祝布魯塞爾比賽五十周年誌慶而推出的唱片集，收錄了17首得獎者的演出，卡素文演繹的戎岡協奏曲就是其中之一。
卡素文早年自哈佛大學、寇蒂斯音樂學院及賓州大學考取學位。他的老師包括翁積傑克（易沙意學生塞積克的教學助理）和葛拉米安，對他最有影響的導師是奧斯紮克、塞甯和金戈德。他演奏所用的小提琴是史塔第發利的「香普斯侯爵」和高費勒造於1778年的「森蒙斯」，弓則超過80把。
Charles Castleman is the newly appointed professor of violin at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. He taught as a visiting professor during the 2014-2015 academic year, then exclusively and full time at Frost beginning Fall 2015. He was the professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music for four decades and department chair for eight years.
He is perhaps the world's most active performer and pedagogue on the violin today. He is also the founder and director of the prestigious Castleman Quartet Program, an intensive and extensive summer workshop in solo and chamber performance, now in its 47th year.
He has appeared as a featured soloist with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai, to name a few. A beloved artist-teacher with thousands of former students around the world, he has conducted master classes in all major cities of Europe, the USA, Australia, Canada, China and more.
As one of 16 Ford Foundation Concert Artists, he commissioned David Amram's Violin Concerto and premiered it with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony. His discography includes some of the most difficult works ever written for violin such as six Solo Sonatas by Ysaÿe, eight Csardases for Violin and Orchestra by Jenő Hubay and ten virtuoso cameos by Pablo de Sarasate, plus chamber music with acclaimed ensembles including the Raphael Trio. As a medalist at both the International "Tchaikovsky" and "Brussels" competitions, his Jongen Concerto is included in a Cypres CD set of the 17 best prize-winning performances of the Brussels Concours' 50-year history.
Charles Castleman earned degrees from Harvard University, Curtis Institute of Music, and the University of Pennsylvania. His teachers were Emanuel Ondricek and Ivan Galamian, his most influential coaches David Oistrakh, Henryk Szeryng, and Josef Gingold. He plays the "Marquis de Champeaux" Stradivarius and "Sammons" Goffriller from 1708, and chooses from over 80 bows.
