Eliot Heaton, Violin

Eliot Heaton, Violin

Eliot Heaton is Concertmaster of the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Des Moines Metro Opera, and the Saginaw Bay Symphony. He has played concertos with orchestras throughout the midwest, and performed in chamber music series of the Chamber Soloists of Detroit, the Scarab...
Niv Ashkenazi, Violin

Niv Ashkenazi, Violin

Violinist Niv Ashkenazi’s solo appearances across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, include several at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, concertos with the Culver City Symphony Orchestra, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Northridge Orchestra, Los Angeles...
Steven Dann, Viola

Steven Dann, Viola

Steven Dann served as principal viola for the Royal Concertgebouw, Tonhalle, National Arts Center, Toronto Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony orchestras, and has performed as soloist with conductors Sir Andrew Davis, Rudolph Barshai, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Vladimir...
Stradivari in Paris

Stradivari in Paris

Joseph Curtin, adapted from an article in The Strad, June 2017 “How comes it then that the violins are so unlike each other? How comes it that one sounds powerful and the other weak?” This was Leopold Mozart in his 1756 treatise on violin playing. Having expressed...
Joseph Curtin Studios goes Solar!

Joseph Curtin Studios goes Solar!

October 10, 2018 A long-time dream of Joseph Curtin and his wife Jesse Richards recently came true when their newly-installed solar system came online. With arrays on the house, garage, and studio, the 11 kW system provides sufficient power for all their electrical...