Violin with Blake E.

Blake E. has enjoyed a diverse career as an active recitalist and performer with several orchestras and chamber ensembles. He often performs with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Ballet, the Philly Pops, and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Mr. E. has been a violinist in the La Catrina Quartet, in residence at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. While in New Mexico, Mr E. actively recruited and taught dozens of college aged and high school musicians. As a member of the quartet, Mr. E. has performed in over 35 states in the US and Mexico. The quartet recorded with Cuarteto Latinoamericano on the Dorian Label, which subsequently won a Latin Grammy for best classical album 2012. In 2007, Mr. E. was invited to become a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL, a professional studies orchestra whose alumni have gone on to join the ranks of professional orchestras all over the US and the world. In this program, he was given the opportunity to act as a rotating concertmaster, chamber musician, and educator to young musicians in the Miami area.