Brandon Garbot, Violin

Brandon Garbot is a 15 year-old violinist who attends Southridge High School in Beaverton. He began playing at age 7, and is a student of Oregon Symphony Violinist Clarisse Atcherson. He played six seasons with the Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) and served as their concertmaster.

Brandon has won several awards and competitions, including being named winner of the PYP Concerto Competition, the Oregon ASTA Concerto Competition, and the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition at the Brevard Music Center. He is a recipient of a Young Artist Fellowship with Chamber Music Northwest and was chosen as one of ten Young Artists world-wide, to participate in the 2007 Starling-Delay Violin Symposium at Juilliard. He has been a multi-time winner in the Oregon Music Teachers Association's Baroque, Classical, Concerto Competitions, and he recently made his first appearance on National Public Radio's program, From the Top.

Brandon served as concertmaster for the Transylvannia Symphony Orchestra at Brevard during the summer of 2008, and he is a past winner of PYP's Jacques Gershkovitch Award. Brandon has performed as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and the Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, working in succession with conductors Gregory Vajda, Mei-Ann Chen, and Daniel Meyer. He has participated in master-classes with violinists William Preucil, Andres Cardenes, Ida Kavafian, Pekka Kuusisto, Paul Kantor, Steven Clapp, Leila Josefowicz, Ani Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, Chin Kim, Sergiu Luca, and Brian Lewis.