Charles Castleman

Medalist in the Tchaikovsky and Brussels Competitions, Charles Castleman has performed as soloist with the orchestras of Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Kiev, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Seoul and Shanghai, and made appearances at the Australian, Budapest, Fuefukigawa, Marlboro and Vienna Festivals. A boxed CD set of the 17 best prize-winning violin performances of the Brussels competition’s 50-year history includes his Jongen Concerto.

Charles Castleman’s solo CDs include Hubay Csardases, Ysaye solo Sonatas, and Sarasate cameos on Naxos, Gershwin and Antheil on Musicmasters, and his Ford Foundation Concert Artists commission - the David Amram Concerto - on Newport Classic. In the Raphael Trio he recorded Dvorak, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Wolf-Ferrari on Sony Classical, Nonesuch, Unicorn, Discover and ASV; in the String Trio of N.Y., Reger and Martin for BASF.

His seven-week summer workshop for solo and chamber music performance The Castleman Quartet Program, now at SUNY Fredonia in its 53rd season, has been praised by Yo-Yo Ma as “the best program of its kind… a training ground in lifemanship.”

Professor of Violin at Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, his international pedagogical reputation has led to master-classes in Australia, Austria, China, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and Ukraine.