Karen Bentley pursues a unique career as a violinist, violist, and pianist. She attended Indiana University where her principal teachers were Josef Gingold and Yuval Yaron. Ms. Bentley graduated with a Masters of Music degree in Violin Performance in [+]Karen Bentley pursues a unique career as a violinist, violist, and pianist. She attended Indiana University where her principal teachers were Josef Gingold and Yuval Yaron. Ms. Bentley graduated with a Masters of Music degree in Violin Performance in 1987. Other teachers include Camilla Wicks, Nathan Milstein, Glenn Dicterow and Jean Jacques Kantorow.
She has concertized as soloist throughout the capitals of Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada, and Russia where she performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons and the Beethoven Violin Concerto. She has several recordings of original music including Electric Diamond, Angel, Konzerto and Succubus, Ariel View and Dancing Suite to Suite. She concertizes with pianist Dmitriy Cogan, with whom she has collaborated for 16 years. She also collaborates with percussionist Ian Dogole of Global Fusion Music in a variety of musical styles merging violin, viola and Norwegian hardingfele with percussion instruments from around the globe. A champion of contemporary music, she has premiered compositions by David Felder, John Halle, Cindy Cox, Stuart Diamond and Bruce Hanifan among others for violin and piano, solo violin, and violin with electronics. Ms. Bentley has toured with the New York Philharmonic and the Bolshoi Ballet.
She has been concertmaster of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Kammerorchester as well as the New York String Orchestra under Alexander Schneider. During the summers she has participated in the June in Buffalo Composers Seminar, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Olympic Music Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, and the Next Generation Festival in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In the San Francisco Bay Area she was Associate Concertmaster of the Monterey County Symphony and conducted the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Preparatory Orchestra, as well as many other prominent area orchestras. She was music director of the PACO Bach Celebration series and has conducted the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra. Ms. Bentley received a grant from the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley for the world premiere of Swedish composer Ole Pullar Saxe's Dance Suite for Solo Violin in December, 2000 and premiered Mr. Saxe's Dance Suite for Solo Violin and Orchestra with the Redwood Symphony on April 21, 2002. She is curr
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