Following up on his celebrated debut recording of JS Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman (Brooklyn Rider, Silkroad Ensemble) is coming back to Rhizome with his new project- JS Bach's complete cello suites on violin!

Here’s a preview video of Johnny recording the Bach cello suites live in the studio! https://v.kickstarter.com/1572466844_231b18449da829ff09fec71193cbedd7da3c7583/assets/026/191/642/4d6e0293b63610eaabfa4670ec8a0460_h264_high.mp4

As a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny Gandelsman has closely worked with such luminaries as Bela Fleck, Martin Hayes, Kayhan Kalhor, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Anne Sofie Van Otter, Alim Qasimov & Fargana Qasimova, Joshua Redman, Suzanne Vega, Abigail Washburn and Damian Woetzel. He has appeared with Bono, David Byrne, Renee Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, I'm With Her, Christian McBride, and many others.

Gandelsman integrates a wide range of creative sensibilities into a unique style amongst today's violinists, one that according to the Boston Globe, possesses "a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination". Johnny's recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, which reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, and made it onto NY Magazine and NY Times Best of the Year lists, was described by the Boston Globe as "Sparklingly personal Bach, shorn of grandeur, lofted by a spirit of dance, and as predictable as the flight of a swallow."