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Glenn Basham (Violin)

Glenn Basham is Concertmaster of Naples (FL) Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the University of Miami where he teaches not only violin, but also one of the few courses in the country in improvisation for string players.

Previously, he served as Concertmaster of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and was a member of the Chester String Quartet.  He has performed as a soloist with Naples Philharmonic, the Pine Mountain Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, the Lansing Symphony, the Plymouth Symphony, the Oak Park Symphony, the North Carolina School of the Arts Festival Orchestra, the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, the Manchester Symphony, the Marion Philharmonic, the Palm Beach Symphony and the Miami City Ballet.

He received First Prize in the Renaud National Honors Competition and was the only American violinist invited to compete in the 1988 International Bach competition in Leipzig,Germany. His second CD with pianist Jodie DeSalvo, Aria, was released in 2006.

As a jazz player, Basham has performed with Ira Sullivan, Simon Salz and John Blake, and he is featured on the Miami Saxophone Quartet's recording Four More Giant Steps and on Skitch Henderson's Swinging with Strings on the Arbors jazz label. He has produced two jazz CDs, Blue Moon and Blue Bossa from a live jazz concert given in 2005 with Guitarist Simon Salz who passed away less than a year after their final concert together.