Matitiahu Braun

Matitiahu Braun is known as a recitalist and chamber musician. He also teaches violin and viola, works with students and professionals, coaches orchestras and chamber music groups, and presents master classes.

Braun recently participated in the international Grieg Festival at Rollins and the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival in Buffalo and East Aurora, New York. His latest appearances in New York City include a chamber music recital at Weill Hall and performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the COSM Orchestra conducted by John McCauley. He has also appeared recently in Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as Israel, Finland, and Japan.

A native of Israel, Braun graduated from the Israel Academy in Tel Aviv where he was a student of Oedoen Partos. In 1962, he moved to America to study with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard where he received Artist and Post-graduate diplomas and was the recipient of the prestigious Naumburg Prize. His early achievements included winning the 1964 Concert Artists Guild competition, and being awarded a Diploma Prize in the Paganini competition in Genoa, Italy. From 1969 to 2006, he was with the New York Philharmonic, and also served as Principal and Solo Violist with the Dallas Symphony in the late 1970s.

Braun's latest CDs include Voices of Time: Works for Solo Violin and Solo Viola by Bach, Biber, Prokofiev, Sung, and Varga (MSR); and Matitiahu Braun Plays Solo Violin Works: Bach, Geminiani, Ysaye, and Ben-Haim (MSR). He can be reached at mati_braun@yahoo.com

Thursday, February 18 at 12 p.m.
Matitiahu Braun and Holly Small, Violin and Piano Recital
Mount Dora Community Church
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