THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2017-2018
Violinist Jeffrey
Multer has been
r e c o g n i z e d
worldwide for
his passionate
p e r f o r m a n c e s ,
e x t r a o r d i n a r y
depth of musical
understanding and
brilliant technique.
A native of upstate
New York, Multer
made his Kennedy
Center debut in
1993, and since
that time he has
appeared throughout North and South America,
Europe and Asia. This year marks his eighth
season as artistic director of chamber music at
the Eastern Music Festival. In addition, he was
appointed artistic director of the newly formed
Palladium Chamber Players in St. Petersburg.
Prior chamber music positions include the
Oxford Quartet, and in 2001, he joined the
critically acclaimed Elements Quartet, whose
New York series was named Best Classical Music
Event of 2003 by The Washington Post.
Appointed concertmaster to The Florida
Orchestra in 2006, he also serves as
concertmaster at the Eastern Music Festival.
Past concertmaster appointments include
the Colorado Symphony, Breckenridge Music
Institute in Colorado, Washington Concert
Opera, and Echternacht Festival in Luxembourg.
In 2012, Multer joined the “All-Star” orchestra in
New York City as associate concertmaster.
A committed educator, Multer is currently head
of violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival.
He has taught at the New World Symphony,
National Orchestra Institute at the University of
Maryland, Miami University of Ohio and in the
pre-college division of The Juilliard School.
Multer began violin studies at age 5. At 16, he
moved to New York City to continue studies at
The Juilliard School where he was the recipient
of a Lincoln Center Fellowship. His teachers
include Lewis Kaplan, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Gerald
Fischbach and Arnold Steinhardt.
JEFFREY MULTER
Concertmaster
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