Violist Mark Holloway is a chamber musician sought after in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet and professor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. He has played at prestigious festivals such as Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Caramoor, Banff, Taos, Angel Fire, Mainly Mozart, and the Boston Chamber Music Society, and as an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Performances have taken him to far-flung places such as Chile and Greenland, and he has played regularly at festivals in France, Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. He was a frequent guest with the NY Philharmonic, Orpheus, and the Metropolitan Opera orchestras, principal violist at Tanglewood and of the NY String Orchestra, and has played as a guest with the Boston Symphony and guest principal of the American and Riverside Symphonies, Philadelphia and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras, American Ballet Theatre, and Camerata Bern. He has performed at the Casals Festival, Bargemusic, 92nd Street Y, Israeli Chamber Project, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, NOVUS NY, and on radio and television throughout the world, including Live from Lincoln Center. Hailed as an “outstanding violist” by American Record Guide, he recorded for the Cedille, Marlboro, Naxos, CMS, Music@Menlo, and Albany labels. Mr. Holloway earned his B.M. summa cum laude from Boston University, where he studied with Michelle LaCourse, and his Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, as a student of Michael Tree.
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