Benjamin Shute

Violin 


Education:

  • Masters of Performance, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, anticipated July 2009
  • BMus, New England Conservatory

Principal Teachers:

  • Rainer Kussmaul (first concertmaster, Berliner Philharmoniker)
  • Masuko Ushioda (first prize, Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition)
    Lee Snyder
  • Kathleen Hastings
  • Other instructors include Rainer Schmidt, Eduard Schmieder, Yair Kless, Lewis Kaplan, John Gibbons, and members of the Cleveland, Muir, Keller, Borromeo, Rubin, and Axelrod quartets

Soloist with many orchestras, both in the USA and Germany

Performance Venues:

  • The Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria)
  • Konzerthaus Freiburg (Germany)
  • Centre d'Arts Orford (Quebec, Canada)
  • Jordan Hall (Boston, MA)
  • The Kimmel Center (Philadelphia, PA)
  • The Grand Opera House (Wilmington, DE)

 

Collaborated with many conductors, including Joseph Silverstein, Stephen Gunzenhauser, and Kenneth Slowik

Concertmaster, New England Conservatory Sinfonietta; player for the Boston Symphony Orchestra assistant conductor auditions and with such orchestras as the Freiburger Bachorchester, Freiburger Kammerorchester, Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei, Bowdoin Festival Orchestra, and Orchester der Musikhochschule Freiburg, as well as such period instrument ensembles as Ars Viva Ensemble, Brandywine Baroque, and the University of Delaware Collegium Musicum (guest concertmaster)

Featured in Early Music America for activities as violinist and composer

Faculty Member:
International Chamber Music Courses and Festival, Positano, Italy
Csehy Summer School of Music since 2007

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