Joseph Gottesman Viola
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Joseph Gottesman is Instructor of Viola and Chamber Music on the faculty of Western Washington University, where he has also conducted performances of the WWU Chamber and Symphony Orchestras. He has also coached for the Greater Boston Youth Orchestra and has been a viola coach for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. Joseph is Director of Performance Studies at the Seattle Conservatory of Music was conductor for the 2012 Rockland (New York) All-County orchestra and has given master classes and clinics on both coasts in solo, chamber, and orchestral playing. For ten years he served on the faculty of Chamber Music and Composers Forum of the East, in summer residence at Bennington College. Joseph was teaching assistant to Raphael Hillyer (founding member of the Julliard Quartet) and studied chamber music with Eugene Lehner of the legendary Kolisch Quartet. His performing career has taken him to a very wide variety of settings, and he has toured
throughout the United States, as well as Central America and Asia.
Mr. Gottesman’s orchestral experience also includes Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, New York Chamber Symphony, New York Pops, New York Musica Viva, first desk roles for the Little Orchestra Society, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and the Music Festival of the Hamptons. He has also played in the viola sections of the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet, as well as for Seattle’s 5th Avenue, Seattle Repertory, and Paramount Theaters. He was chosen as the viola soloist for Lincoln Center’s production of Bernarda Alba and has performed as violist for the Broadway productions of Aida, Bombay Dreams, 110 in the Shade, as well as the national company of Phantom of the Opera.
Joseph has been a guest artist of the Seattle Chamber Players, Music of Remembrance, the Omni Ensemble of Brooklyn, Ross Arts of Marin County, and has recorded chamber music for the International Franz Schubert Institute of Vienna and Albany Records. He has had the honor to collaborate in chamber music performances with artists such as Berl Senofsky, Artur Balsam, Kikuei Ikeda, Kathleen Lenski, and Paul Rosenthal. He appeared on NHKTV’s (Tokyo) The Classical Hour “Live from Steinway Hall” as well as ABC-TV’s “The View”. Gottesman has also performed on tours with Rod Stewart, John Denver, Harry Connick Jr, Barbra Streisand, and many other popular artists. He has played on numerous feature film and video game soundtracks, including an on-screen appearance in The Age of Innocence, chamber music in House on Haunted Hill and as soloist for Child 44 (Lionsgate 2015).
“Gottesman is a formidable player with a huge tone, expert skills and musical charisma.” Stamford Advocate