Schools attended:

• The Juilliard School; New York City, N.Y.
• The Blair School of Music: Nashville, Tennessee

Principal teachers:

• Dorothy Delay, violin, The Juilliard School
• Stephen Clapp, violin, The Blair School of Music
• Robert Mann, Chamber music, The Juilliard School

Pedagogical experience:

• Director of Instrumental Music at Soka University of America - Saddleback College (1999- 2000)
• The Sewanee Summer Music Center : Violin, viola & chamber music (1978 & 1999)
• L'Académie Internationale de Sées : violin (1996)
• l'Ecole Ressources Créatives Musicales : violin & viola (1996-1998)
• The Violin Camp : violin (1994-1997)
• Le Conservatoire Maurice Ravel; Levallois Perret : violin (1992-1998)
• Le Conservatoire du Centre; Paris : violin (1993-1998)
• Le Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau : Chamber music (1988-1992)
• The University of California, Irvine : Violin and Orchestra Director (1978-1984)
• The Juilliard School : Assistant to R. Mann and C.Adams (1975-1978))
• etc...

Performing

• Founder and conductor of “l'Ensemble des Deux Mondes” and first violinist of the Quatuor Fitzpatrick : Concerts with Patrice Fontanarosa, Karl Leister, Noel Lee, Guy Deplus, etc...
• Founding member and first violinist of the New York String Quartet :
  Concerts with The Juilliard Quartet, The Blair Quartet, Elliot Fisk, Claude Franck, Itzhak Perlman, Emmanuelle Ax, Yair Kless, Ron Leonard, etc...
• Soloist with orchestra :
  - L’Orchestre du Centre : Sarasate- Zigeunerweisen, op 20.1/Ravel-Tzigane
  - The American Symphony Orchestra : Mendelssohn - concerto in e minor op.64 ;
  - The Midland-Odessa Orchestra : Bartok - Concerto n°2 ;
  - The Aspen Music Festival : Mozart - Concerto n°2 / Glinsky - Rhapsody / Vivaldi - Concerto in b for four violins
• etc...

Recordings:

• IMA Concerts : Schubert Quintet and Brahms sextet in B flat major
• Fondation Robert Casadesus/Sonatas n° 1 & 2 (Gaby Casadesus, piano)
• Jubal : "Recital..." (violin and piano)
• CRI : PERLE / Quartet n°5/ MUMFORD Quartet n°1 (NYSQ)
• Sine Qua Non : SCHUBERT Quartetsatz (NYSQ)
• Delos : ZWILLICH Quartet n°1 (NYSQ)

Videos :

• “Violon Passion” - with Patrice Fontanarosa and L'Ensemble des Deux Mondes;
• California Cable Network on "The New York String Quartet"

Contact details and further information

E-mail William Fitzpatrick

For further details, see William Fitzpatrick