Daniel Glover, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra & John McLaughlin Williams
Biography Daniel Glover, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra & John McLaughlin Williams
Daniel Glover
has performed in 42 states and 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and the Caribbean.
He holds a master’s degree from New York’s Juilliard School, where he attended as a scholarship student. Among his numerous competition awards is first prize in the prestigious LiederkranzCompetition in 1990.
Mr. Glover has trained with such luminaries as Eugene List, Abbey Simon, Jerome Lowenthal, Nancy Bachus and Thomas LaRatta.
The San Francisco Classical Voice remarked, “Brilliant, tender, whimsical, sparkling…Glover brought everything together into a well-balanced, evenly measured medium.” “The elegance and civility of Glover’s approach were 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 recorded eight CDs on the DG2 label, including Franz Liszt, The Profound and the Profane (2008), Spanish Impressions (2006), Romantic Russian Encores (2005), and a recording of live performances of works for piano and orchestra by Mozart, Strauss, and Prokofiev (2005). Previous recordings include the complete solo piano music by Ravel (2003), the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano with New York violinist Matthew Reichert (2001), Russian Romantics (2000), and an all-Chopin concert recorded live in 1999.
John McLaughlin Williams
Grammy Award-winning Conductor John McLaughlin Williams has been critically acclaimed for his outstanding interpretive abilities and engaging podium presence. Equally at home in the standard literature and the masterworks of American composers, it was with the release of his critically praised recordings on the Naxos label that his conducting first attracted international attention. For Naxos’ celebrated “American Classics” series, Williams worked with the National Symphony and Radio Orchestras of Ukraine on world-premiere recordings of orchestral works by composers both well-known and neglected by history. He has been praised in international publications, among them Fanfare, Gramophone, Classic FM, International Record Review, American Record Guide, and the French recording journal Diapason. His recordings appear on labels such as Naxos, TNC, Artek, Cambria, and Afka.
In 2007 Williams was awarded a Grammy for the TNC recording of Messiaen’s L’Oiseau Exotiques with Angelin Chang and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Additional recognition came in 2009 and 2011 when he was awarded further Grammy nominations for his conducting in recordings of concerti by Ernest Bloch and Benjamin Lees with violinist Elmar Oliveira, and for “Quincy Porter: Complete Viola Works”. He is also a recipient of the Geraldine C. & Emory M. Ford Award for American Conductors.
Williams has conducted both nationally and internationally for such orchestras as the Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Classic FM Orchestra (Bulgaria), Chicago Sinfonietta, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, The Britt Festival, and many others. In the popular realm, he conducted for R&B superstars Al Jarreau, Brian McKnight, The Winans, Terrence Blanchard, B Slade, as well as the celebrated Celtic band Colcannon, among others. Williams also conducted for televised events on FOX and UPN, while his composition/arrangement credits include the soundtrack to Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington (History Channel documentary starring Richard Dreyfuss), alongside Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard), and arranging, as well as orchestrating the National Song of the Cayman Islands (“Beloved Isle Cayman”) for the official use of the nation’s government.
Williams is also a virtuoso violin soloist, pianist, and chamber musician. He began violin studies at age 10 in a Washington, D.C. public school. At age 14 he appeared as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and others. Williams served as Concertmaster of the Virginia Symphony and was a member of the Houston Symphony. As guest concertmaster he has appeared with the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pennsylvania Ballet, the Opera Company of North Carolina, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and was Assistant Concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.
