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 ~ J.howard88@comcast.net

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.