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Philip Setzer, Artist in Residence;
Emerson String Quartet and Violin
In addition to his activities as with the Emerson String Quartet, Philip Setzer has a violin studio at Stony Brook. Violinist Philip Setzer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began studying violin at the age of five with his parents, both violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Rafael Druian, and later at the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky. In 1967, Mr. Setzer won second prize at the Meriwether Post Competition in Washington D.C., and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. He has appeared as a guest soloist with the National Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony (with David Robertson), Memphis Symphony (with Michael Stern), and, on several occasions, with the Cleveland Orchestra (with Louis Lane). Additionally, Mr. Setzer has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and performed with the orchestras of Brussels, Omaha, Anchorage, Richmond, Hartford, and Westchester.
A founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, Philip Setzer performs more than a hundred concerts a year worldwide. The quartet's recordings for Deutsche Grammophon have won six Grammy awards. Mr. Setzer's original idea to combine concert performance with theater to portray the life of Shostakovich led to a unique collaboration between Simon McBurney's company, Complicité, and the Emerson Quartet. The result was the groundbreaking "The Noise of Time". Produced by and premiered at Lincoln Center, "The Noise of Time" has also been performed at the Barbican Centre in London, the Berlin Festival, the Vienna Festival, UCLA, the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois, and at the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts in Northampton.
Philip Setzer has been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. His article about those workshops appeared in The New York Times on the occasion of Isaac Stern's 80th birthday celebration. He is on the faculty of SUNY Stony Brook as Artist-in-Residence in Violin and Chamber Music and has given master classes at schools around the world, including The Curtis Institute, London's Royal Academy of Music, The San Francisco Conservatory, UCLA, The Cleveland Institute of Music and The Mannes School. In April of 1989, Mr. Setzer premiered Paul Epstein's "Matinee Concerto". This piece, dedicated to and written for Mr. Setzer, has since been performed by him in Hartford, New York, Cleveland, Boston and Aspen. In his spare time he plays the viola and composes music.
Violin: Samuel Zygmuntowicz (Brooklyn, 1999)
