Aaron Boyd

Violinist AARON BOYD enjoys a career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. He has concertized throughout the Unite States, Europe, Russia and Asia. He has played in nearly every major hall in New York City, including Bargemusic, where he has appeared over 50 times. Mr. Boyd has participated in the Marlboro, La Jolla, Bridgehampton, Prussia Cove and Tanglewood festivals and has collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, and Orion Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio, Phillippe Entremont, Mitsuko Uchida, Anner Bylsma, Siegfried Palm, Kim Kashkashian and Gerard Poulet. He toured and recorded internationally as a member of the Sejong Soloists and Manhattan Sinfonietta, and has played with the St. Paul, Orpheus, Metamorphosen and Prometheus Chamber Orchestras. Mr. Boyd has been a prizewinner in the Ecoles D’art Americaines de Fontainebleau, the Klein Violin Competition, the Tuesday Music Society and the Pittsburgh Concert Society and was awarded a Proclamation by the City of Pittsburgh for his musical accomplishments. Mr. Boyd has been involved in numerous commissions and premiers in concert and on record, including premier recordings of the music of Milton Babbitt, George Edwards, and Morton Feldman. He is first violinist and founder of the Zukofsky Quartet (Quartet-in-Residence, Bargemusic); the only ensemble to have played all of Milton Babbitt’s notoriously difficult string quartets. Mr. Boyd has played and recorded in collaboration with Jazz legend Dick Hyman, Chanteuse Badomi DeCesare, and appeared in concert on the mandolin with flutist Paula Robison. As a recording artist, Mr. Boyd can be heard on the Naxos, Tzadik, North/South and Innova labels. Mr. Boyd has been broadcast in concert by NPR, WQXR, and WQED, and was recently profiled by Arizona Public Television. Born in Pittsburgh, Mr. Boyd began his studies with Samuel LaRocca and Eugene Phillips and graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied with Sally Thomas and coached extensively with Paul Zukofsky and the legendary cellist Harvey Shapiro. Previously on the violin faculty of Columbia University and the University of Arizona, Mr. Boyd now lives in New York with his wife Yuko and daughter Ayu, and plays on the “ex Alard” Matteo Goffriller violin made in Venice in 1700.