Samuel Andonian

Armenian American violinist Samuel Andonian hails originally from Greater Boston. He has been a soloist with orchestras including the Boston Pops Orchestra, New York Classical Players, New England Philharmonic, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he has performed on NPR’s From the Top, at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening gala, in Juilliard’s Starling-DeLay Symposium, and in recital most recently at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. As a chamber musician, Andonian has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, NEC’s Honors Chamber Music program, the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall and Norfolk chamber music festivals, and has performed with members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, and Brentano string quartets. He has been concertmaster for the New York Classical Players, the Moritzburg Orchestra (in a recording for Sony Classical), the NEC orchestras, and the Boston Youth Symphony for three seasons. Important to his musical purpose has been Andonian’s work interning and performing with Music for Food, a musician-led initiative founded by violist Kim Kashkashian, which collects donations from its performances for organizations fighting food insecurity in their local community. Andonian is currently a doctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers have included Donald Weilerstein, Catherine Cho, John Holland, and Mark Steinberg, and he is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School.