Dov Scheindlin
viola

Acclaimed by the New York Times as an "extraordinary violist" of "immense flair," Dov Scheindlin has been violist of the Arditti, Penderecki and Chester String Quartets. His chamber music career has brought him to 28 counties around the globe, and won him the Siemens Prize in 1999. He has appeared as soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Paris Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic. Mr. Scheindlin has recorded extensively for EMI, Teldec, Auvidis, Col Legno, and Mode, and won the Gramophone Award in 2002 for the Arditti Quartet's recording of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Pulse Shadows. As a member of the Arditti Quartet, he gave nearly 100 world premières, among them new works by Elliott Carter, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, and Wolfgang Rihm. He has also been broadcast on NPR, BBC, CBC, the German WDR, HR, SWR, NDR, MDR and SFB networks, as well as French, Swiss, Austrian, Dutch and Belgian national radio networks.

Dov Scheindlin was raised in New York City, where he studied with William Lincer and Samuel Rhodes at the Juilliard School. He has taught viola and chamber music at Harvard, Wilfrid Laurier University, Tanglewood, and Saarbrücken. He has regularly participated in summer festivals such as Salzburg, Tanglewood, and Aspen, and has also been acting violist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. His chamber music partners have included members of the Juilliard, Alban Berg, Tokyo, and Borodin String Quartets, as well as concertmasters of the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, Saint Paul Chamber and National Symphony Orchestras.

After living six years in London, Dov Scheindlin has recently returned to his hometown of New York. He plays a viola made by Francesco Bissolotti of Cremona, made in 1975.