2025 EDITION

- August 3 to 16, 2025

Adam B-Hart Aaron Boyd

Biography

Top prize winner in the 2001and 2002 Irving M. Klein competitions in San Francisco, violinist Adam Barnett-Hart made his debut with the Juilliard Symphony at 19 performing the Brahms concerto in Alice Tully Hall.
He began studying with Pinchas Zukerman after graduating from the Juilliard School, where he completed a B.A. with Joel Smirnoff. Prior to Juilliard, Mr. Barnett-Hart studied with James Maurer, Paul Kantor, and Donald Weilerstein.
Born in Pittsburgh, violinist Aaron Boyd began playing the violin at the age of seven. Prizewinner in numerous competitions Mr. Boyd has participated in the Tanglewood, Fontainebleau, Prussia Cove and Marlboro Music Festivals, where he has performed with members of the Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Juilliard, Guarneri and Orion String Quartets.
He graduated from the Juilliard School where he studied with Sally Thomas and Harvey Shapiro.

Professor at MISQA for the following years