Judith Glyde

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Judith Glyde, originally from Toronto, Canada, was a founding

member of the Manhattan String Quartet in 1970. In residence

at Town Hall and at the Music Mountain Summer Chamber

Music Festival from 1981-88, the quartet performed over 80

concerts a year, appearing throughout the United States,

Europe, Canada, Mexico, the former Soviet Union, and South

America. The Quartet’s discography includes 25 recordings

for the labels Naxos, Sony, Koch, Newport Classics, and

Centaur Records, including six ESS.A.Y. discs featuring the

15 string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, the first recording

of the complete cycle by an American quartet. Of the cycle,

TIME magazine wrote, “One of the most important musical

events of 1991.” From 1992, the Professor of cello and

chamber music and Chair of the String faculty at the University

of Colorado Boulder, she performed as teacher and guest

artist with festivals including the Fairbanks (AK) Summer

Arts Festival, the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival (IT),

the Australian Chamber Music Festival in Townsville (AUS),

and the Castleman Quartet Program. Judith was formerly

Director of the Winterschool program of the ACMF and often

presented pre-concert lectures for the Boulder Philharmonic

and the CU Artists Series.