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Strings 
Lenuta CiuleiViolin Lenuta Ciulei has an unusually versatile repertoire which features masterworks from early Baroque to the latest contemporary music. Acclaimed in 22 countries on four continents, the Romanian-born violinist has been praised by public and critics alike for the very fine balance between her perfect technique, supreme accuracy, emotion and imagination.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Timothy Cobbdouble bass Timothy Cobb joined the Mason Gross faculty in 2006 as a Visiting Artist. He teaches the double bass studio in collaboration with Lou Kosma. In addition to serving as principal bass of the Met Orchestra and Double Bass Faculty Chair at the Juilliard School, Mr. Cobb maintains a busy schedule of chamber collaborations and solo appearances. Mr. Cobb frequently performs with Quartets such as the Emerson, Guarneri, Belcea, Leipzing and St.Lawrence, as well as artists such as Pincas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, James Levine, and Christian Zacharias, among many others. Mr. Cobb’s festival appearances include most of the major summer festivals such as the Bridgehampton, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Sarasota, Tanglewood among many others. Mr. Cobb can be heard on all Met recordings from 1986 as well as a 2003 Grammy-nominated ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ with the Harmonie Wind Ensemble of New York on Koch records. He is a former member of the Chicago Symphony, and serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Purchase College (SUNY), as well as Juilliard.
Margaret HollandString Techniques Margaret Holland loves to perform and teach. She teaches strings at a private school in South Jersey, viola and cello from her studio, and is an active freelance musician. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Mann Music Center, and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia. She holds a degree in cello performance from Temple University, where she studied with the late Elsa Hilger from the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as private study with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Juilliard faculty. She holds an M.B.A. from Temple University, and a Teaching Certificate in Music Education from Chestnut Hill College. She leads the Bella Corda Chamber Music Groups.
Kathryn LockwoodViola Heralded as a violist of exceptional talents, Kathryn Lockwood has won wide recognition for her performances throughout the United States and abroad. The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, "Lockwood played the vociferous viola cadenza with mahogany beauty and vivid character", and The Strad declared "Lockwood is absolutely inside the music's idiom finding appropriate tonal shadings." Kathryn has been guest artist with ensembles including Trio Solisti, Triple Helix, Muir Quartet and has collaborated with artists such as Michael Tree, Branford Marsalis, Cho-Liang Lin, and the Bill T Jones Dance Company. A native of Australia, Kathryn moved to the US in 1991 and subsequently captured awards at the Primrose International Viola Competition, Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Concert Artists Guild Competition and the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. As a founding and former member of the Pacifica Quartet she toured extensively and recorded for Cedille Records. Kathryn is a Viola Professor at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She earned her degrees at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with Elizabeth Morgan and at the University of Southern California with Donald McInnes.
Email: KathLock@aol.com 
Todd PhillipsViolin Todd Phillips, a member of both Orpheus and the Orion String Quartet, made his solo debut at age 13. He has performed as guest soloist with leading orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Japan including the Pittsburgh Symphony, New York String Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he made a critically acclaimed recording of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Deutsche Grammophon. Mr. Phillips has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Marlboro and Spoleto Festivals, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music at the 92nd St Y and New York Philomusica. He has collaborated with such renowned artists as Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Richard Stoltzman, Peter Serkin and Pinchas Zukerman and has participated in eighteen "Musicians from Marlboro" tours. He also serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Mannes College of Music. He has recorded for the Arabesque, Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Marlboro Recording Society, New York Philomusica, RCA Red Seal and Sony Classical labels. 
Jonathan SpitzCello Cellist Jonathan Spitz has established himself as one of the leading cellists in the New York area. In recent seasons, Mr. Spitz has performed the Dvorak Concerto and Brahms "Double" Concerto, Bloch’s Schelomo, the Elgar Concerto, and the Haydn Sinfonia Concertante. His performance of the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto at the OK Mozart Festival was broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today. Mr. Spitz is an active chamber musician, and performs regularly with the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players, Bard Festival Chamber Players and as a guest artist in chamber music festivals throughout the world. He performed for three summers at the Marlboro Festival, and has played concerts with Rudolf Serkin, Oscar Shumsky, Benita Valente, Bargemusic, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and Speculum Musicae. Mr. Spitz has been Principal Cellist of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1990, and performs on the 1696 "ex. Prince Gursky" Stradivarius. In recent years, Mr. Spitz has become increasingly sought after as a teacher and coach.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Arnold SteinhardtViolin Arnold Steinhardt, born in Los Angeles in 1937, made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at fourteen. He studied with Carl Moldrem, Peter Meremblum, Toscha Seidel, at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian, and under the sponsorship of George Szell with Joseph Szigeti. Steinhardt won the Philadelphia Youth Competition in 1957, the Leventritt International Violin Competition in 1958, and was bronze medalist in the 1963 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition. Steinhardt has been first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet since its founding in 1964. He has written two books: Indivisible by Four- a Quartet in Search of Harmony published by Farrar, Straus, and Geroux, and Violin Dreams published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302
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