Brandon Garbot, Violin

Brandon Garbot is 18 years old, and is a student in the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studies with Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster, William Preucil. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he previously studied with Oregon Symphony violinist Clarisse Atcherson and Suzanne Gaye. Following his debut with the Oregon Symphony in 2008, he has performed as a soloist with the Portland Columbia Symphony, the Olympia Symphony, the Portland Chamber Orchestra, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra, the Newport Symphony, the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, collaborating with conductors, Gregory Vajda, Huw Edwards, Yaacov Bergman, Adam Flatt, Daniel Meyer, Ken Lam, Mei-Ann Chen, and James Feddeck.

Brandon placed first in the 2010 International Young Artists Competition of the Jefferson Symphony, and was one of 3 finalists in the 2009 ASTA National Soloist Competition. He received a Young Artist Fellowship with Chamber Music Northwest in 2008, and he has twice been chosen as a Student Artist for the Starling-DeLay Violin Symposium at Juilliard. He was the 2011 winner of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, and was a two-time winner of the Portland Youth Philharmonic and Jan & Beattie Wood Concerto Competitions. Brandon has served as the concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and previously held the same position with the Portland Youth Philharmonic for three seasons.

Brandon is currently enrolled in the Perlman Music Program (PMP) in New York, and the PMP Winter Residency in Sarasota, where he studies with Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Sean Lee. Brandon has performed in master-classes for Glenn Dicterow, Andres Cardenes, Jun Iwasaki, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Paul Kantor, Stephen Clapp, Leila Josefowicz, Sergiu Luca, Elmar Oliveira, Brian Lewis and he has had additional studies with David Salness, and Kevin Lawrence.