Bio : Artists

Jeffrey Multer : Violin I

EMF alumnus (two summers) and concertmaster Jeffrey Multer returns to Greensboro and the Eastern Music Festival for his twenty-fifth season in 2010. Mr. Multer is also first violinist of New York City?s critically acclaimed Elements Quartet, whose New York series was named ?best classical music event of 2003? by the Washington Post. He has appeared as soloist and recitalist in concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America, including: the Lincoln Center in New York, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Rudolphinium in Prague and the Kennedy Center and National Gallery in Washington, DC. As a chamber musician, he frequently appears with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has served as first violinist of the Oxford String Quartet and as a member of the Kennedy Center Theater Chamber Players. He has been a core member of the Great Lakes Chamber Festival in Detroit, Michigan. Other concertmaster appointments include the Colorado Symphony, the Breckenridge Music Institute in Colorado, the Washington Concert Opera and the Echternacht Festival in Luxembourg. Recently, the Detroit Free Press praised him for his ?extraordinary precision and poise,? and the Cleveland Plain Dealer called him ?a prodigious and aristocratic violinist,? while the Washington Post called his recent solo recital at the National Gallery ?a dazzling performance.? Mr. Multer is concertmaster of The Florida Orchestra in Tampa.