Radim Zenkl is a mandolin player and multi-instrumentalist, composer and instructor.
Originally from the Czech Republic, Radim moved to USA in 1989. Three years later he won the US National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, KS. He invented a masterful technique, the “Zenkl style,” in which a single mandolin sounds like two. Besides his solo performances, Radim has collaborated with top musicians of the US acoustic music scene and played concerts in a duo setting with artists including Tim O'Brien, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Tony Trischka, Chris Thile (in a quartet), Scott Nygaard and others.
He has recorded nine CDs, including a CD of improvised duets with Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall and others (Strings & Wings, Shanachie, 1996), and appeared on more than eighty other recordings. Besides the mandolin Radim plays a variety of ethnic flutes from around the world, the Australian didgeridoo and piano. Radim’s worldwide performing and teaching credentials include guest appearances at prestigious music institutions such as the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. His instructional DVD Mandolin Primer was released on Homespun in 2015.
