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.

Photo by Roy Lewis.