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JEFFREY HOWARD
Violin
H: (410) 988-5910 ~ C: (617) 680-0866 ~ www.JeffreyHowardViolin.wordpress.com
“an inspirational, gifted musician”
Dr. Howard is available for Recitals, Chamber Music,
Concerto Performances and Masterclasses
H: (410) 988-5910 ~ C: (617) 680-0866 ~ [email protected]
Dr. Jeffrey Howard
Associate Professor of Violin
Towson University www.jeffreyhowardviolin.wordpress.com
Violinist Dr. Jeffrey Howard has distinguished himself nationally and
internationally as an "excellent virtuoso ...(with) a deep understanding of
different musical styles, and a remarkable power of communication."
Born in New York, Dr. Howard has appeared as soloist with many orchestras
including the Boston Virtuosi, and the Yonkers, Indiana University, Concord,
UT Arlington, Hunt Valley, Towson University and WPI Symphony
Orchestras. A frequent soloist and guest artist, he has performed at Jordan
Hall in Boston, Federal Hall in New York, the Bastille Opera House in Paris,
Khachaturian Hall in Montreal and at Syracuse University, the University of
Texas at Arlington, the Longy School of Music, Oberlin College, the
Hochschule fur Musik in Wurzburg, Germany and at the Orfeo International
Music Festival in Vipiteno, Italy.
Dr. Howard has appeared internationally in Canada, China and in Central and
Western Europe, including the countries of Austria, Germany, the Czech
Republic, France, Hungary and Italy. A devoted performer of chamber
music, he has performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Winter
Institute for String Quartets and the Lydian String Quartet Seminar and
studied with members of the Tokyo, Mendelssohn, Juilliard and Cleveland
String Quartets. He has also performed as a substitute member of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Metamorphosen Chamber Ensemble,
Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and as
Concertmaster for the Concord Orchestra and the Hunt Valley Symphony. He
is a regular section sub for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop,
Music Director. He is also a frequent adjudicator for Solo, Ensemble, and
Orchestral competitions in Maryland and surrounding states.
Dr. Howard received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and
Indiana University where he completed the Doctorate of
Music degree in Violin. His teachers included Stephen Clapp,
Franco Gulli, Paul Biss and he was one of the last students
of renowned pedagogue Josef Gingold. He has served on
the faculties of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the
Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Bridgewater State College and
Westfield State College and he performs regularly with his
wife, pianist Anna Soukiassian, in the Kassian-Howard Duo.
Dr. Howard currently teaches at Towson University where he also coaches
chamber music and performs regularly in the Baltimore Trio. He lives in the
Baltimore area with his wife and their two daughters Michelle and Ani.