Festival Faculty

Since its inception, the Sarasota Music Festival has assembled a most remarkable and respected roster of guest artists, many of whom have returned to the event for more than 20 years. Their teaching and performing credentials continue to attract the world's finest young musicians anxious to study with them.

Included on our panel of esteemed faculty are the principal players of some of the top orchestras in the nation, including concertmasters of the Cleveland Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a former concertmaster of the Boston Symphony. There are also 16 solo and chamber music-recording artists, four conductors, several composers and published music scholars, as well as a whistling virtuoso.

We encourage you to take a moment to meet our masters:

PIANO

Claude Frank
Robert Levin
John Perry
Susan Starr

VIOLIN

Federico Agostini *
Theodore Arm
James Buswell
Pamela Frank
Mauricio Fuks *
Timothy Lees
Joseph Silverstein

VIOLA

James Dunham
Kim Kashkashian
Robert Vernon
Barbara Westphal

CELLO

Steven Doane
Timothy Eddy
Desmond Hoebig
Ronald Leonard

BASS

Fred Bretschger
Timothy Cobb *
Paul Ellison
Lawrence Hurst

FLUTE

Leone Buyse
Thomas Robertello
Carol Wincenc