 Paul Biss
Violin; Chamber Music
Violinist Paul Biss has appeared in recital, with orchestra, and in chamber music performances throughout North America, Mexico, Europe, Israel, and Korea.
Biss has participated in numerous festivals as a violinist and as a violist. He was a member of the Berkshire Quartet, and was a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival for six summers. He has also appeared at other festivals such as the Ravinia, La Jolla, Lockenhaus, Casals, Naantali, and the Ysaye, at Wigmore Hall.
Prior to coming to NEC, Paul Biss was a professor of violin for more than 25 years at Indiana Unniversity, teaching violin and chamber music, and conducting more than a 100 symphonic and operatic performances.
His former students hold positions in major orchestras in the U.S. and Europe, and have won prizes in major international and national competitions including first prizes in the Sibelius, Leopold Mozart, and Stulberg competitions.
Recent concerts and teachings have taken Biss to Ireland, England, Brazil and Korea.
B.S., Indiana University, M.S., The Juilliard School. Studies with Josef Gingold, Ivan Galamian, and Paul Makanowitsky. Also faculty of Steans Institute for Young Artists-Ravinia Festival. Former faculty of Indiana University, Tel Aviv University, MIT, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival
 Lucy Chapman
Violinist Lucy Chapman, chair of NEC's strings studio faculty, also served as chair of chamber music from 2002 through 2010.
While widely sought after as a chamber musician, Chapman has had a varied career that spans many musical worlds. She has had solo and chamber music concerts throughout the USA and in Europe, Korea and Japan. She has held positions as acting associate concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and first violin of the Muir String Quartet, and won a Grammy nomination for a recording of Bartok, Stravinsky and Ives with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Richard Goode. She also recorded with Keith Jarrett, whose solo sonata she premiered in Chicago's Orchestra Hall.
Recent performances include the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with violist Kim Kashkashian, an all-Mozart concert in New York with pianist Robert Levin, frequent guest appearances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and return visits to the Busan Festival in Korea and the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.
Chapman is a former faculty member of the University of California/Santa Cruz, Boston and Harvard Universities. During the past eight summers she has been on the faculty of Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet; her other principal teachers include Dorothy Delay and Marc Gottlieb.
B.M., Curtis Institute; M.Ed., Antioch New England. Studies with Dorothy Delay, Marc Gottlieb, Arnold Steinhardt. Recordings on EMI, CRI, New World, RCA/BMG. Former faculty of University of California/Santa Cruz and Boston and Harvard University.
 Miriam Fried
Miriam Fried has been recognized for years as one of the world’s preeminent violinists. A consummate musician – equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician – she has been heralded for her “fiery intensity and emotional depth” (Musical America) as well as for her technical mastery. Fried has played with virtually every major orchestra in the United States and Europe and has been a frequent guest with the principal orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony.
Recital tours have taken her to all of the major music centers in North America and to Brussels, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm and Zurich.
In recent seasons, her schedule has included orchestral engagements with such prestigious ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Czech Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Mexico, the Japan Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony and the BBC Philharmonic. She recently premiered a violin concerto written for her by Donald Erb with the Grand Rapids Symphony and recorded the work for Koss.
Since 1993, she been chair of the faculty at The Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, one of the country’s leading summer programs for young musicians. Her involvement there has included regular performances, including recitals and concerts with the Chicago Symphony. Fried’s highly praised 1985 New York recitals of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin were the culmination of three years of international performances. She recently returned to this music, recording the complete Sonatas and Partitas in France, which were released in the spring of 1999 on the Lyrinx label. She has also made a prize-winning recording of the Sibelius Concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic under the direction of Okko Kamu, available on the Finlandia label, which has become a best seller.
Chamber music plays an important role in Fried’s musical life. She is a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Garrick Ohlsson, Nathaniel Rosen and her husband, violinist/violist Paul Biss. She has been featured guest artist at Chamber Music East in Boston, the La Solla Chamber Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival, and the Naantali Festival in Finland.
Miriam Fried’s successful solo career was launched in 1968 after she was awarded First Prize in Genoa’s Paganini International Competition. Three years later she claimed top honors in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition where she gained further world attention by becoming the first woman ever to win the prestigious award. Her early childhood included lessons with Alice Fenyves in Tel Aviv, as well as the opportunity to meet and play for the many great violinists who visited Israel, including Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szeryng, Zino Francescatti and Erica Morini. She came to the United States as a protegee of Isaac Stern and continued her studies with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and with Joseph Gingold at Indiana University. Before coming to NEC, Fried served on the faculty of Indiana University.
Violin with Isaac Stern, Alice Fenyves, Lorand Fenyves, Paul Makanowitsky, Ivan Galamian, and Joseph Gingold. Recordings on Koss, Lyrinx, and Finlandia.
 Nicholas Kitchen
Violin; Chamber Music; Borromeo String Quartet, quartet-in-residence
Violinist Nicholas Kitchen, a native of Durham, N.C., has been active as a soloist and chamber musician since making his first professional appearances at age 12. Since then, his performances have taken him to more than 20 countries, where he has been presented in such halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Opera Bastille in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Wigmore Hall in London, and Carnegie Hall and Jordan Hall in the U.S.
His solo appearances have included collaborations with such conductors as Michael Tilson-Thomas, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Enrique Batiz.
Since 1989, Kitchen has performed extensively as first violinist of the Borromeo String Quartet. He has participated in the Caramoor, Spoleto, Vancouver, and Orlando festivals, among others.
Among Kitchen’s many awards, he has received the Albert Schweitzer Medallion for Artistry and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
His interest in contemporary music has resulted in his premiering Stephen Jaffe’s Violin Concerto with the Greensboro Symphony, and working as an artist member of "Music from the Copland House". Kitchen is Artistic Director of the Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, and has the honor of playing on the A.J. Fletcher Stradivarius, a violin purchased for long-term loan to him by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation of Raleigh, NC.
B.A., Curtis Institute; Artist Diploma with Borromeo String Quartet, NEC. Violin with James Buswell, Giorgio Ciompo, David Cerone, Szymon Goldberg.
 Malcolm Lowe
Violin (Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster)
Malcolm Lowe is concertmaster of the BSO, and performs with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. He was formerly concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the Worcester Symphony, the Regina Symphony, and the New York String Seminar. He has performed with all the major Canadian orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony, the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, and the Toronto Symphony. He was a top prize winner in the 1979 Montreal International Violin Competition.
Studies at Regina Conservatory of Music (Saskatchewan); Meadowmount School of Music (N.Y.), Curtis Institute. Violin with Howard Leyton-Brown, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Jaime Laredo; chamber music with Josef Gingold, Jascha Brodsky, Felix Galamir, Mischa Schneider.
 Valeria Vilker-Kuchment
Violin (BSO)
Valeria Vilker-Kuchment is a member of the BSO. She has appeared as recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Russia, Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. She has won prizes in several major competitions, including the International Violin Competition at Prague and the International Chamber Music Competition at Munich (first prize). Vilker-Kuchment was concertmistress of the Boston Philharmonic, the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, and Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra.
B.M., Gnesiny State Musical Pedagogical Institute (Moscow); Graduate and post-graduate degrees, Moscow Conservatory. Violin with Yuri Yankelevich. Recordings on Melodiya, USSR, Sine Qua Non, Sonora, Boston. Former faculty of Moscow Conservatory. Also faculty of Longy School of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Photo by Betsy Bassett
 Donald Weilerstein
Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies; Chamber Music; NEC's Weilerstein Trio, piano trio-in-residence
Donald Weilerstein has concertized extensively throughout the world as soloist and chamber musician. He studied at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, Dorothy Delay, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet, and was honored at graduation by the National Foundation of the Arts as an outstanding graduate of the school. He was a member of the Young Concert Artists and a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival, performing on several Music from Marlboro Tours. In 1968, he won the Munich International Competition for violin and piano duo.
For twenty years (1969–1989) Weilerstein was the first violinist of the renowned Cleveland Quartet, with whom he toured the world. His recordings with the quartet can be heard on the RCA, Telarc, CBS, Phillips, and Pro Arte labels. These recordings have earned seven Grammy nominations and won Best of the Year awards from Time and Stereo Review.
Weilerstein has taught and performed at such major American and European music festivals as Caramoor, Tanglewood, Aspen, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Luzern, Verbier, Ishikawa, Keshet Eilon, "Chamber Music Encounters" sponsored by La Cite de la Musique and the Paris Conservatory and many more. He regularly teaches and performs at the Steans Institute in Ravinia, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and at the Perlman Music Program.
He also performs as a duo recitalist with pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein. The Duo was enthusiastically received at Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and in the major American cities. Their discography includes the complete works of Ernest Bloch for violin and piano, and the Janacek, Dohnanyi, and Enescu Sonatas for Arabesque, as well as the complete Schumann Sonatas for Azica Records.
Weilerstein is a very active as a member of the highly acclaimed Weilerstein Trio which is in residence at the New England Conservatory of Music. Their CD for Koch records was released in January 2006 and features trios of Dvorak. They can be visited at www.weilersteintrio.com.
Recently featured in Strad, Weilerstein was formerly a professor of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School. His students have been prize winners in major national and international competitions, including first prizes in the Indianapolis, Naumburg and Hanover competitions and 2nd prize in the Brussels competition. His students can be heard in many of today's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles.
Donald Weilerstein occupies a teaching chair endowed in 2004 by the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation, with matching funds from the Nicholas Family Challenge.
B.S., M.S., The Juilliard School, first recipient of the Fritz Kreisler Memorial Scholarship. Studies with Ivan Galamian, Dorothy Delay, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet. Studies with Sidney Griller of the Griller String Quartet. Recordings on RCA, Telarc, CBS, Philips, Pro Arte, Arabesque, Azica. Former faculty of Cleveland Institute of Music, Paris Conservatoire, Eastman School of Music, Bowdoin College, Ithaca College, and SUNY/Buffalo. Also current faculty of Aspen Music Festival.
 Kristopher Tong
Kristopher Tong joined the Borromeo String Quartet, New England Conservatory's quartet-in-residence, as second violinist in March 2006. A member of the chamber music and violin faculties, he also serves as assistant chair of strings.
Tong has been hailed as a performer of "exceptional insight and creative flair" (Boston Globe). As second violinist of the Borromeo String Quartet, he has performed in hundreds of concerts across the United States and around the world to critical acclaim. Recent engagements include appearances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Morgan Library, and a presentation of the complete Beethoven quartets at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
In addition to his concertizing with the Borromeos, Tong is an active recitalist, chamber musician, and teacher. He has taught and performed at numerous festivals, including the Taos School of Music, Music@Menlo, and at the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program. Tong has performed on such radio programs as NPR’s "Performance Today," WGBH’s "Classical Performance," and was recently featured on WGBH’s "Classical Connections" in a new series entitled "Why Mass.?"
From 2002-2004, Tong was Principal Second Violin with the Verbier Festival Orchestra, with whom he toured throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He has played under the baton of some of the world's premier conductors, including James Levine, Christopher von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Charles Dutoit. He has also performed with Mizayaki Festival Orchestra in Japan, the New York String Orchestra, and as a guest soloist with the Verbier Chamber Orchestra under Dmitri Sitkovetsky and Yuri Bashmet. Tong was also a member of the original cast of Classical Savion at the Joyce Theater in New York City, a collaborative project with tap dancer Savion Glover.
Kristopher Tong began his violin studies in a public elementary school program in Binghamton, N.Y. His family later moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he became a student of Leonard Braus. He received his bachelor's degree at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied with Franco Gulli, Yuval Yaron, and Miriam Fried. In 2005 he completed his master's degree under Fried at New England Conservatory. Born in the United States to parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan, he has an older sister, Melissa, who is an accomplished violinist, and a younger sister, Jessica, who dances with the famed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, a contemporary dance ensemble.
B.M., Indiana University in Bloomington. M.M., NEC. Studies with Franco Gulli, Yuval Yaron, and Miriam Fried. Also faculty of Harvard University, where he received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Former faculty of NEC's Preparatory School.
Photo by Andrew Hurlbut
 Ayano Ninomiya
The second-prize winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition, Ayano Ninomiya joins the New England Conservatory faculty with the 2015/2016 academic year.
Ninomiya has established a wide-ranging professional career encompassing solo appearances with orchestras in Europe and the U.S., chamber music performances, research, and outreach programs. She has spent several seasons at the Caramoor, Bridgehampton, Olympic, and other festivals, and joined Musicians from Marlboro for the group’s 2004 U.S. tour and 2005 tour of France. She has performed with the Momenta String Quartet and the Formosa String Quartet in Singapore and across the United States, and with the Daedalus Quartet at Juneau’s Jazz and Classics Festival. She also has been a member of the Australian-based TinAlley String Quartet and the conductorless string ensemble ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra.)
After early studies at New England Conservatory's Preparatory School, Ninomiya graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a dual degree in Music and French, and she holds a master’s degree from The Juilliard School. As the recipient of the 2005 Frank Huntington Beeve Fellowship for advanced music study and performance, Ninomiya studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and researched scores at the Bartok Archives.
B.M. in Music and French, Harvard College; M.M., The Juilliard School.
 Soovin Kim
Violinist Soovin Kim joins the New England Conservatory faculty as of fall 2014.
At age 20, Soovin Kim won first prize in the Paganini International Competition. Subsequent awards included the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Equally gifted in concerto, recital, and chamber music repertoire, Kim has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and Seoul Philharmonic. He has given solo recitals at New York's Weill Hall, the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Ravinia, Tokyo's Casals Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center. He is an active participant in the Marlboro Festival.
Soovin Kim Paganini CDParticularly known for his breadth of repertoire, Soovin Kim typically takes on everything from Bach to Paganini to the big romantic concertos to new commissions. His recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin was released in February 2006 and was named Classic FM Magazine's "Instrumental Disc of the Month." He released a CD with Stomp/EMI of four commissioned works by Korean composers, written for and performed by his ground-breaking piano quartet MIK (Made in Korea). He recorded string quintets of Boccherini and Schubert with cellist Janos Starker and the Arensky cello quartet with Lynn Harrell, both released by Delos, and duo works by Schubert, Bartók, and Strauss with Jeremy Denk for Koch/Discover. Kim and Denk performed the Brahms sonatas in Seoul and Rome and the Charles Ives sonatas in Philadelphia and at Bard College.
Soovin Kim is the first violinist of the Johannes Quartet, an ensemble that has performed newly commissioned works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Derek Bermel, and William Bolcom. He also arranged for and performed the premiere of Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer's string trio in 2007.
Graduate of the Curtis Institute; studies at Cleveland Institute of Music. Studies with David Cerone, Donald Weilerstein, Victor Danchenko, Jaime Laredo. Also faculty of SUNY-Stony Brook, Bard College.
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