Michael Strauss, violist, is on the faculty of the Doylestown
Community Conservatory and maintains private teaching studios in Lansdale,
Pennsylvania, and Chestertown, Maryland. For the last six summers, he has taught chamber music and ear
training at the renowned Philadelphia International Music Festival.
Mr. Strauss has performed
professionally as an orchestral and chamber musician throughout the
Northeastern and Midwestern United States, Israel, and Mexico. From 1999 until
his 2009 move to Philadelphia, he was Principal Violist and Director of
Education and Outreach for the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, director of the
Washington College String Orchestra, the Kent School Strings, and “Classical
Advantage,” a musical day camp, and founded the Mariner String Quartet.
He
received a BA from Yale, majoring in English Literature, then, from the New
England Conservatory, a Master’s Degree with Distinction in Performance. His
most influential teachers were Eugene Lehner, George Neikrug, Benjamin Zander,
and Karen Tuttle.
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