Tristan Siegel
Born in New York City, violinist Tristan Siegel, is traveling the world earning a reputation as a new exciting young classical musician. As an avid and active chamber musician, Tristan recorded chamber works by Beethoven in the Spring of 2019 on the NAXOS Label as part of their 250th Anniversary Collection of Complete Beethoven Works. In addition, Tristan performed Schoenberg’s 4th Quartet in collaboration with Jorja Fleezanis and Stephen Wyrczynski in their renowned “Embraced by the Second Viennese School” series at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a member of the Apex Ensemble (formerly the Montclair Orchestra), and has played with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Tristan has participated in numerous festivals and chamber music series including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy, Taipei Music Academic Festival, Pacific Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, Round Top, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, The Alexander Schneider Series at the Mannes School of Music. Tristan has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous New York venues including Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, WMP Concert Hall, and Weill, Zankel and Perelman Stages at Carnegie Hall. Tristan was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Stulberg International String Competition.
In addition to his extensive performing résumé, Tristan is an active violin teacher with a full-time studio comprised of students of all levels. He held a teaching post at the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ and is a teacher in the Elizabeth Faidley Studio based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. As an undergraduate, Tristan studied violin pedagogy and taught under the tutelage of Dr. Brenda Brenner and Mimi Zweig in collaboration with the IU String Academy. Tristan is Suzuki Certified and part of the Suzuki Association of America.
Tristan is currently pursuing a Masters of Music at the Yale School of Music where he studies with Tai Murray. Tristan graduated from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University with a BM and PDSP in Violin Performance studying with Alex Kerr. He also graduated with a BA in Chinese with a focus in business and political science. Tristan was awarded a full Graduate Tuition scholarship, maintained a spot on the Dean’s List for the entirety of his studies, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. This balance of teaching, performing, and studying of non-musical pursuits is what Tristan believes should be the aim of every musician, to be a well-rounded and flexible member of society. The more dynamic and adaptive a musician can be, the better person they can become.
Tristan has been generously granted extended use of a 1945 Arturo Fracassi violin by the Chimei Museum in Tainan, Taiwan.
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