Violin with Brian B.

I have been a performer and teacher based in New York since 2005. I received my Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, an Artist Diploma from Yale University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Stony Brook University. My experience as a teacher includes having been a faculty member at the New York Music School and the chamber music coach for the school's Summer Intensive Program since 2014. Previously, I was a Teaching Artist at Yale University and a faculty member at the Music Academy of Long Island, where I taught violin, viola, and cello. My students have won top prizes at several competitions, including the International Grande Music Competition, the Rondo Young Artist Competition, the Prima Volta Music Competition, the Crescendo International Music Competition, and the New York Young Virtuoso Competition. I've also helped them prepare for and be accepted into the top Pre-College and Prep programs in NYC, and to get into the top youth orchestras. I am the 1st violinist of the Deka String Quartet, with whom I held residencies at the Banff Chamber Music Program in Canada, the Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine, and the inaugural New Music for Strings Music Festival in Denmark. Most recently with the quartet, I served as a SUNY Artist-in-Residence through the Rockefeller Institute of Government, giving performances and teaching students from SUNY Schenectady and the Empire State Youth Orchestra. I am also a core member of the highly acclaimed New York Classical Players, and have performed with other renowned New York based ensembles such as Sejong Soloists. I've performed as a soloist with the Tampa Bay Symphony, the Central Florida Philharmonic, the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Young Artists Orchestra, the Sewanee Festival Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and others. While most of my professional experience is from being a New York based violinist teaching and performing around the world, I grew up learning the violin in Orlando, Florida. I am a Trinity Preparatory School alum, and was concertmaster of the Florida Young Artists Orchestra for many years.