Peter R. Isaacson

Associate Professor of Violin
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Peter Isaacson, Assistant Professor of Violin and Orchestra Director, received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kentucky and holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. As an active performer, Mr. Isaacson has performed with the Craftsbury Chamber Players, the Leanne Chamber Ensemble, and the Absolute Ensemble in New York City. He has performed on the Musica Viva concert series, the Focus Festival, and the Wednesdays at One concert series in Alice Tully Hall. More recently, he has been heard on the Woodsongs Radio Hour and WRGV Public Radio in Georgetown, Kentucky.

He has held faculty positions at Southwest Missouri State University, Cumberland College, Camp Encore/Coda and the American Festival for the Arts in Houston, Texas. As a member of the Niles String Quartet, Mr. Isaacson was a semi-finalist at the Fischoff Chamber Music competition and was selected to participate in the Audobon String Quartet Seminar at Virginia-Tech. His primary teachers have been Catherine Tait, Sally Thomas, Renato Bonicini, Stephen Clapp and Daniel Mason. He has studied chamber music with the member of the Cleveland and Audobon String Quartets, Toby Apel, John Graham, Andre Emilianoff and Zvi Zeitlin. Mr. Isaacson has collaborated in performance with the members of the Audobon String Quartet, the Meliora Winds, Phil Ying of the Ying Quartet and folk-singer Michael Jonathan. His conducting studies have been under the direction of Dr. Robert Baldwin at the University of Kentucky.