Event

Radim Zenkl - solo concert - mandolin & flutes

Original music crossing the tracks of folk, string jazz, new age, bluegrass, flamenco, gypsy, Irish, and classical music, combined with Czech and eastern European traditional songs and instrumentals.

Mandolin * Mandola * Irish Bouzouki * Ukulele * Tinwhistle * Ethnic Flutes * Didgeridoo * Vocal.

Radim has extended the technical possibilities of the mandolin by inventing a masterful technique, the "Zenkl style," in which a single mandolin sounds like two.

www.zenkl.com

Radim has reinvented the mandolin in several different ways.
- David Grisman

Imaginative and great.
- Jerry Garcia

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About Radim Zenkl

Music performer, composer and instructor. Originally from the Czech Republic, Radim resides in California since 1989. His style features bluegrass, jazz, flamenco, classical, Eastern European traditional and original music. Radim is the US Mandolin Champion and remains at the cutting edge of the mandolins future. He has invented a masterful technique, the Zenkl style, in which a single mandolin sounds like two. According to David Grisman: Zenkl has re-invented the mandolin in several different ways. Radim has performed or recorded duets with musicians such as David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Chris Thile, Jerry Garcia, Rob Wasserman, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Noam Pikelny, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, Tim OBrien, John McCutcheon and many others. He has recorded nine solo CDs (released on Acoustic Disc, Shanachie and Ventana) and has appeared on more than sixty other recordings. Radims worldwide performing and teaching credentials include guest appearances at prestigious music institutions such as the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, and several times at the Mandolin Symposium. He has been teaching online private lessons for the past eight years. His instructional DVD Mandolin Primer was released on Homespun in November 2015.