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JAMES
GREENING-
VALENZUELA
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Violinist
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"A violinist with a sound technique. His musicianship is acute and mature. And, at its best, his playing shows a willingness to avoid the glamorously routine; as in employing different speeds of vibrato, or even no vibrato at all. The expression gained thereby through range of inflection."
-- Boston Globe
"A performance of potency and passion."
-- The Strad
"Greening-Valenzuela's playing shone brightly."
-- St. Louis Globe-Democrat
"Our attention was brought, during the entire performance, to the employment of the bow, and how the violinist molded and shaped each musical phrase."
-- La Nacion, Costa Rica
"The Ysaye Sonata is an agglomeration of pyrotechnics which Greening-Valenzuela dispatched adroitly. It was an obstacle course well-traversed on a hot night.
-- Boston Globe
"His interpretation [of the Tchaikovsky Concerto] allowed for maximum flow of rich, full melody lines, with deft bowing and flying fingers giving forward movement to the complete concerto."
-- Contra Costa Times
"One witnessed the soul of a great musician as he gave each phrase an amazing depth of feeling, pulling and pushing the bow into an impassioned expression of emotion."
-- The Spectrum