Samuel Andonian, violinist
Praised by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for his “sonorous, sweet tone and masterful phrasing,” Armenian-American violinist Samuel Andonian hails originally from Massachusetts. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he earned a master’s degree studying with Catherine Cho, and earned his bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory, studying with Donald Weilerstein. Currently, Andonian is a doctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, through which he studies with Mark Steinberg, and teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.
Andonian has been a soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops Orchestra, the New York Classical Players, the New England Philharmonic, and the Boston Youth Symphony. He has performed on NPR’s From the Top, at Juilliard’s Starling-DeLay Symposium, in recital for Music for Food and Music for Peace concert series, and at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening gala.
As a chamber musician, Andonian has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, NEC’s Honors Chamber Music program, the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop, Kneisel Hall and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, and has performed with artists such as Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, and members of the Brentano String Quartet.
Andonian has been a concertmaster for the New York Classical Players, the Moritzburg Orchestra (in recording for Sony Classical), the NEC orchestras, and the Boston Youth Symphony for three seasons.
Important to his musical purpose has been Andonian’s work interning and performing with Music for Food, a musician-led initiative founded by violist Kim Kashkashian, which collects donations from its performances for organizations fighting food insecurity in their local community.
