Nathan Giem, currently first concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra, has served as concertmaster of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and as guest concertmaster of the Los Angeles Camerata Orchestra for its 2004 tour of China. A student of Franco Gulli and Alexander Kerr (among others), he received a 2005 Fulbright Scholarship to study Orchestral Leadership in the Netherlands. Giem has since performed as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster across Europe, Japan and the United States. He is music director of the VSA Oberlin Acoustics Workshop, and performs on a 2010 Joseph Curtin violin.