Michael ROTH
Michael Roth, violin and viola, a native of Scarsdale, NY, received his early musical training with Frances Magnes at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School. He attended Oberlin College and Conservatory and continued his studies with Marilyn McDonald.
While at Oberlin, he won the Kaufman Prize for violin and First Prize in the Ohio String Teacher’s Association Competition.
Mr. Roth completed his Master of Music degree at the University of Massachusetts where he worked with the distinguished American violinist and pedagogue Charles Treger and was a recipient of the Julian Olevsky Award.
He is currently associate concertmaster of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and has appeared in chamber music and as a soloist with the company, most recently in the debut of Slice Too Sharp, a ballet of Biber and Vivaldi violin concerti, and After the Rain, violin music of Arvo Pärt.
Michael Roth, violin and viola, a native of Scarsdale, NY, received his early musical training with Frances Magnes at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School. He attended Oberlin College and Conservatory and continued his studies with Marilyn McDonald.
While at Oberlin, he won the Kaufman Prize for violin and First Prize in the Ohio String Teacher’s Association Competition.
Mr. Roth completed his Master of Music degree at the University of Massachusetts where he worked with the distinguished American violinist and pedagogue Charles Treger and was a recipient of the Julian Olevsky Award.
He is currently associate concertmaster of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and has appeared in chamber music and as a soloist with the company, most recently in the debut of Slice Too Sharp, a ballet of Biber and Vivaldi violin concerti, and After the Rain, violin music of Arvo Pärt.
In addition, Mr. Roth is a member of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Principal 2nd violin of the Westchester Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra and the New York Pops. He has served as concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and was concertmaster of the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra for many years and often appeared as soloist there, as well as at the Caramoor and Bard Music Festivals.
He has played and toured internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Soloists.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Roth has collaborated on violin and viola with artists such as Eugene Drucker, Menahem Pressler, James Buswell, Steven Doane, Hamao Fujiwara and members of the Brentano, Manhattan and Ying Quartets. He regularly participates in the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival and the Windham Chamber Music Festival and recently presented a recital of contemporary Cuban solo violin and chamber music in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of the American Composers Orchestra.
With Orpheus, the Eos Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, The New York Pops, The American Composers Orchestra and others, he has recorded for the Sony, Angel, Telarc, Decca, BMG, Point Music, ESSA.Y. and Arbors Music labels.
