Acclaimed violinist JAMES GREENING-VALENZUELA has performed as a soloist with orchestra, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America.  He made his solo debut while in his teens, at the Bach Festival de Font’Neuve in France and went on to win First Prize in the Shreveport Symphony National Young Artist Competition, followed by critically acclaimed debut recitals at Symphony Hall in Boston and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

 

Dr. Greening-Valenzuela has been featured on seven solo CDs, produced by Musical America, Locrian Recordings and as an artist on the Con Brio Recordings label:  his 2002 recording of the Bach Sonatas for Solo Violin earned a submission for a Grammy Award nomination.  In 2007 he was the recipient of the Elebash Fellowship Award from The Graduate Center (City University of New York), for his doctoral dissertation on the life and career of composer Ruggero Leoncavallo.

 

Other performances include Internacional Festival de Musica in Costa Rica, San Francisco War Memorial Herbst Theater, Wildflower Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Las Vegas Summer Music Festival, Menton Music Festival in France, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Kosciuszko Foundation, Tibor Varga Festival in Switzerland, Rodolfo Lipizer Festival in Italy, as well as guest appearances at Yale, Boston, UCLA, UNLV, Hofstra, NYU and South Dakota State Universities.  In addition, he was Founder and Artistic Director of California Music Festival, from 2000 to 2008.

 

He attended the San Francisco and St. Louis Conservatories of Music, as well as the City University of New York.  Teachers include Henryk Szeryng, Joseph Silverstein, Zaven Melikian, Daniel Phillips, Masao Kawasaki, John Korman and Doris Brill.  Recently honored by theviolinsite.com as one of the most influential violin soloists among today’s musicians, he has served as an adjunct faculty member of Queens College, Brooklyn College and Boise State University.

 

Dr. Greening-Valenzuela currently maintains a private violin/viola studio in Walnut Creek, California and is sought after as a master teacher, lecturer and competition adjudicator.  Over the years, many of his students have attended the finest music conservatories, universities and festivals and have built their own professional careers as soloists, chamber players, orchestral musicians and teachers.

 

In addition, Dr. Greening-Valenzuela is Founder and President of Vocal Artists Management, which tends to the careers of internationally-acclaimed opera and concert singers.