Sharon Roffman

Sharon Roffman, prize winner in the 2003 Naumburg Foundation International Competition, made her solo debut playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the New Jersey Symphony in 1996 under the baton of Zdenek Macal. Since then, Ms. Roffman has forged a unique career, equally sought after as a soloist, chamber musician and music educator throughout the United States and abroad. In March 2004, Ms. Roffman made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins with Itzhak Perlman playing and conducting; the same piece was featured in a “Live from Lincoln Center ” broadcast showcasing the Perlman Music Program in 2003. As a chamber musician, Ms. Roffman has collaborated with members of the Brentano Quartet, the Miami Quartet, Opus One Piano Quartet, and Guarneri quartet, among others. Since 2004, Ms. Roffman has been performing with flutist Paula Robison in bi-annual concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring concertos by Vivaldi. Ms. Roffman has been a frequent guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in both the Meet the Music and Inside Chamber Music series. Ms. Roffman is also a member of Counter)Induction, a chamber music group committed to performing the works of contemporary composers.

Ms. Roffman received a Graduate Diploma from the Juilliard School in 2003, where she was a student of Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein. Ms. Roffman earned both a Masters Degree and Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Donald Weilerstein. From 1995-97, she studied with Robert Lipsett in the resident honors program at the University of Southern California .

Awards include first prize of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's 1995 Young Artists Auditions, second prize in the 1996 Stulberg International String Competition, and second prize in the 1998 National American String Teachers Association competition. In 1993, Ms. Roffman was the featured soloist for the 75 th Anniversary Gala of the Manhattan School of Music, where she was a student in the Preparatory Division from 1981-1995. In addition to her accomplishments as a performer, Ms. Roffman was appointed concert artist and professor of violin at Kean University in 2002, and is a member of the faculty of the Thurnauer School of Music in Tenafly , New Jersey , and the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college division. Ms. Roffman also recently founded and is the director of ClassNotes, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing chamber music to public schools.