College of Musical Arts

Professor; member of the Class of Jascha Heifetz; graduate of Liceul de Muzica and Conservatural de Muzica in Cluj, Romania, and Southern Methodist University; winner of numerous competitions and awards; chamber music performer throughout the United States and Europe as a member of various ensembles including The International Trio, American Arts Trio, the Mozart Fortepiano Duo and The Guarneri Duo; formerly on the faculties of Liceul de Muzica, University of Northern Iowa and the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point; first violinist of the Chautauqua Faculty String Quartet; visiting professor of violin at the Academy of Music in Cluj and professor of violin at the Chautauqua Institution; recipient of numerous teaching awards; has presented lectures on a new approach to pedagogy called "talent development" at national and international conferences, as well as universities through the United States and Europe; students have been prize winners in young artist competitions with the Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, the Cleveland Philharmonic, the Stulberg Auditions and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition; his students have also won positions with major orchestras, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia and Detroit Symphony orchestras, and as concertmaster and other principal positions with the Birmingham, New World, Lima (Peru), Dayton and Toledo symphonies.