Martin Andersen
VIOLA
   
MARTIN ANDERSEN, violist, has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, since 1979. He is also an active freelance musician in the NY/NJ metro area, and has served as Principal Viola of the Hudson Chamber Symphony, the Hawthorne Chamber Orchestra, the Korean Symphony of New York, the Elysian Symphony Orchestra, and the OMPTI Orchestra. As a result, he has had opportunities to travel: Three tours to Japan, one to Korea (performing with New York City Symphony at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul), two residencies/tours in Ireland (with the NJSO), and a U.S tour with Tenor Andrea Bocelli. He has also spent his Augusts since 1990 performing both orchestral and chamber music at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming.

Martin has appeared as soloist with the Hawthorne Chamber Symphony, the Hudson Chamber Symphony, the South Orange Chamber Orchestra, and at the Bedford Springs Music Festival.

Teaching has always been important to Martin’s musical life. Beginning in his teens, he currently has over twenty private violin and viola students of all ages and levels, and specializes in Talent Education (Suzuki Method). He was Founding Faculty of Preucil School of Music, taught at the Preparatory Division of Brooklyn College, and is presently on the faculty of Seton Hall University and Stevens Institute of Technology. He also coaches the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra, a part of NJSO’s Education Program. He has performed and taught master classes throughout New Jersey as a member of the GNYO and NJSO Quartets, including at Rowan University.

Begging his parents for a violin, Martin began studies at age eight in Iowa City, Iowa, with Doris Preucil, a pioneer of the Suzuki Method in this country. Adding viola in his teens, he graduated Cum Laude from the University of Iowa, and obtained his Master of Music degree from Boston University, studying with Walter Trampler, Eugene Lehner, and William Kroll. He has also studied privately with Karen Tuttle, John Graham, Joyce Robbins, and Toby Appel, the latter as part of a three year Mellon Foundation Grant.

Martin and his wife, Christina, a Floral Designer, live in Hoboken, NJ.

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