Project Description
Versatile and virtuosic violist Colin Brookes is a founding member of the Ulysses Quartet. They are the winners of the Grand Prize and the Gold Medal in the Senior String Division of the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his work as a chamber musician, soloist and teacher has taken him to cities across the United States, Europe, and South America.
Mr. Brookes has performed as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 and 2015 he played solo and chamber recitals in Cornish, New Hampshire for the Saint Gaudens Concert Series. Recent chamber engagements include performances with Ani Kavafian, Laurie Smuckler, Daniel Phillips, Tara O’Connor, Hagai Shaham, Colin Carr, Alan Kay and Ransom Wilson. As a freelance musician, Colin work with the ensembles A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, Cantata Profana, Le Train Bleu and New York Chamber Soloists. He is a winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society, Tuesday Musical Club, and Music for Mount Lebanon Competition.
Colin holds a Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School, along with a Master of Music, and Artist Diploma from Yale University where he received the Georgina Lucy Grosvenor Memorial Prize. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University under Larry Dutton and Nicholas Cords. Former teachers include Ettore Causa, Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory, Jeffrey Irvine, Roger Chase, Marylene Gingras-Roy and Carolyn Hills. He currently plays on an Italian 19th century viola and bow generously on loan from the Maestro Foundation.