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VIOLIN AND VIOLA INSTRUCTION IN NEW JERSEY
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MARTIN ANDERSEN is an experienced performer and teacher living in Hoboken, New Jersey
Martin Andersen teaches private lessons to students of all ages and levels, and is also a Talent Education (Suzuki Method) specialist, as well as a chamber music coach. He has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1979, is on the music faculties of Stevens Institute of Technology and Dieckow School of Music; and coaches strings and chamber music at the NJSO-sponsored Greater Newark Youth Orchestra. Martin has also participated in masterclasses, workshops, and chamber music performances throughout New Jersey (including at Rowan University) as a member of both the NJSO and GNYO String Quartets. In addition, he is an active freelance musician in the NY/NJ Metro area, serving as Principal Viola of the Opera Music Performance Theatre International Orchestra, Hudson Chamber Orchestra, Hawthorne Chamber Orchestra, and the Korean Symphony of New York; as well as performances with many other area orchestras, chamber music concerts, and commercial recording work. He has extensively toured Europe and Asia as an orchestra musician, and has appeared as soloist with the Hudson Chamber Symphony, the Hawthorne Chamber Orchestra, and at the Bedford Springs Music Festival. Since 1990 he has spent his Augusts performing as an orchestra and chamber music musician at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Martin Andersen's Suzuki background began when, at the age of eight in Iowa City, IA, he became one of the first students of Doris Preucil, a pioneer of Suzuki Talent Education in the U.S. Later, studying viola with her husband William Preucil, Sr. at the University of Iowa, he also attended Suzuki workshops at Western Illinois University and at Steven’s Point, Wisconsin. Subsequently, while still an undergraduate at the U. of I., Martin was chosen by the Preucils to join as Founding Faculty the Preucil School of Music, one of the first (and now one of the largest) Suzuki schools in the U.S.
Martin graduated Cum Laude from the University of Iowa, and obtained his Master of Music Degree from Boston University, studying viola with Walter Trampler and chamber music with Eugene Lehner and William Kroll. He also spent five summers coaching with Leslie Parnas, Roman Totenberg, Walter Trampler, Karen Tuttle, Artur Balsam, Toby Appel, John Graham, Ani Kavafian, and James Buswell as a full scholarship student at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School in Blue Hill, ME. Since then, Martin has continued to pursue his development as a performer and teacher, studying privately with John Graham and Joyce Robbins in New York City, and, in 2000-2003, as a recipient of a three-year Mellon Foundation Professional Improvement Grant, mentoring with viola soloist, chamber musician, and Juillard School faculty member Toby Appel.
Martin performs on a rare instrument made in Paris c.1760 by Auguste Chappuy.
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About the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
The NJSO is the state's largest arts organization. With an annual budget of $15 million, it presents over 150 concerts annually to a total audience of 350,000. It is based at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The NJSO won its first Grammy Award in February 2001 for a recording of Dvorak's Requiem and New World Symphony.
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Your Inquiry is Welcome!
Contact Martin at 201.653.2738 to discuss your musical needs. You can also email him at fleurviola@aol.com
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