Hugo Kauder: Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano US Premiere
Hugo Kauder: Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Piano US Premiere
Hugo Kauder: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Piano US Premiere
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky: Canzonetta from Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Hugo Kauder was born in Austrian Tobitschau (today´s Tovačov in the Czech Republic), where his father was the headmaster of the local middle school. He acquired his preliminary musical training locally before moving to Vienna in 1905. He studied at the city’s Technical University and gave up his technical education to research Early Music. From 1907 to 1911, he successively played the violin, then the viola in Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester, one of the orchestras that would eventually merge to become the Vienna Symphony. Kauder became a musical authority, gaining prominence as a composer, teacher, and writer. With Austria´s annexation by Nazi Germany, Kauder escaped first to the Netherlands, where he edited the papers of poet Albert Verwey, then to Great Britain. In 1940, he arrived in New York, where he taught composition and music theory at Hermann Grab´s music school, The Music House, and wrote reviews for the Austro-American Tribune.
Kauder composed over 200 works, including five symphonies, nineteen string quartets, plus plenty of vocal music, including a large opera, Merlin, based on a libretto by the philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz. His extensive body of lieder includes poems by Joyce, Goethe, and Nietzsche set to music. In 1928, he won the Art Prize of the City of Vienna. His early work was published with Universal Edition. In addition, he is the author of Entwurf einer neuen Melodie- und Harmonielehre (1932) and of Counterpoint, An Introduction to Polyphonic Composition (MacMillan, 1960).
A native of Palo Alto, California, Karen Bentley Pollick studied with Camilla Wicks in San Francisco and with Josef Gingold at Indiana University, earning BM and MM degrees with a cognate field in Choral Conducting. She joined the Paul Dresher ElectroAcoustic Band in 1999 and performs with Seattle-based Joy Street Orchestra. Her multimedia project ‘Solo Violin and Alternating Currents’ received a grant from the NEA and evolved into ‘Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity’. Karen received a Seed Money Grant for Disseminated Performances from New York Women Composers. While residing in Vilnius, she and pianist Jascha Nemtsov performed ‘Resonances from Vilna’ and the premiere of David A. Jaffe’s violin concerto How Did It Get So Late So Soon? with the Lithuanian National Opera & Ballet Theatre Orchestra.
Karen’s debut recording for Toccata Classics presents Hermann Graedener’s two violin concertos with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Her recordings garnered top recognition in the Global Music Awards: Graedener Violin Concertos, Chamber Music of Ivan Sokolov, and Orchestral Music of Ole Saxe, featuring the premiere recording of his violin concerto My Manchu Princess & Dance Suite. Music for Emily Dickinson includes Ten Songs without Words by Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley, and was awarded the 2024 American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music.
A founding member of Virtuosos de Cámara, Karen presented chamber music concerts in Puerto Vallarta and Nayarit and collaborated with Resonance Jazz Trio. Concert highlights include the Seattle premiere of Pietà by Jerry Mader alongside ROMANTARCTICA by Henning Kraggerud, with live video of MAQA VIOLIN by Yitzhak Yedid. Karen tracked the hardangerfele solos in her San Pancho home studio for New Zealand composer Stephen Gallagher’s score for The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, released in December 2024.
Concertos from the Caucasus, featuring violin concertos by Georgian composer Aleksi Machavariani, and Azerbaijani composers Azer Rzayev and Rauf Gadjiev with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, garnered three gold medals for Instrumentalist, Album & New Release in the June 2025 Global Music Awards. Karen performed Gara Garayev’s Sonata in D minor for violin & piano at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall with Azerbaijani virtuoso pianist Nargiz Aliyarova in October 2025.
“Violinist Karen Bentley Pollick presents these concertos with appropriate esprit. Technically, she succeeds in enhancing the musicality and special character of the works to such an extent that their essential characteristics become clear, ensuring that the qualities of the pieces can be experienced in modern sound technology.”
-Pizzicato July 2025
Daniel Glover has performed in 42 states and 28 countries throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. The San Jose Mercury News said, “Glover is an incisive, exciting, and apparently tireless player, a natural for hyper-virtuosic challenge.” He has been hailed for his “extraordinary technique, analytical understanding and determined phrasing from the first to the last bar.” (Südhessische Post, Germany). The San Francisco Classical Voice remarked, “The elegance and civility of Glover’s approach was musically unimpeachable.” “Dazzling…golly can he play! I kept expecting smoke to emerge from the interior of the instrument… a flawless sense of Lisztian style incorporating its emotional depth.”
Mr. Glover has trained with such luminaries as Eugene List, Abbey Simon, Jerome Lowenthal, Nancy Bachus, and Thomas LaRatta. He holds a Master’s Degree from New York’s Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student. Among his numerous competition awards is first prize in the prestigious Liederkranz Competition in 1990.
His successful 1992 Carnegie Hall recital in New York was a result of winning the Artist’s International Competition. Mr. Glover also appeared in Washington, D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery and at the St. Petersburg Palaces Festival in Russia. With a repertoire of eighty concerti and other works for piano and orchestra, Mr. Glover has appeared regularly with over twenty Bay Area orchestras, as well as numerous orchestras nationally and internationally. Successful appearances include the critically acclaimed “World Premiere” performance of Eric Zeisl’s Concerto in C major (1952) in May 2005 with the Saratoga Symphony, which was honored as one of the “Top 10 Best Classical Concerts in the Bay Area, 2005” by the San Jose Mercury News. He performed the complete works by Tchaikovsky for piano and orchestra with the Saratoga Symphony. He recently recorded the world premiere recordings of Felix Borowski’s Piano Concerto in D minor and Beryl Rubinstein’s Concerto in C with the Lithuanian National Symphony in Vilnius, Lithuania. This will be released on the Reference Recordings label in 2026.
In 2013, Mr. Glover gave the world premiere of the Piano Concerto by Lee Actor, a work specially commissioned for him by the Peninsula Symphony, and recorded the work with the Slovak National Symphony in Bratislava, May 2014.
Mr. Glover has served on the faculties of New York University, the University of the Virgin Islands, the University of San Francisco, and Notre Dame de Namur University.
Mr. Glover has recorded ten solo CDs, including Great Transcriptions by Legendary Pianists (2015), Franz Liszt, The Profound and The Profane (2008), Spanish Impressions (2006), Romantic Russian Encores (2005), and a recording of live performances of three works for piano and orchestra by Mozart, Strauss, and Prokofiev (2005). Previous recordings include the complete solo piano music by Ravel (2003) and Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Matthew Reichert (2001).
His website is www.danielgloverpianist.com
