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 Violinist Stefan Hersh enjoys a varied career, equally at home as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician and pedagogue. Hersh is a founding member of the Chicago based Callisto Ensemble, and is currently on the faculty of the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He performs nationally as a guest artist, teacher and lecturer. Hersh moved to Chicago in 1995 from Minneapolis where he was Principal Second Violin with the Minnesota Orchestra. He was a member of the Chicago String Quartet, and a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians until 2000. Hersh was Associate Professor of Violin at De Paul University from 1995-2003. Stefan Hersh began his career in his native San Francisco Bay Area where he studied at the San Francisco Conservatory with Isidore Tinkleman, David Abel and Camilla Wicks. Hersh was Concertmaster of the San Franciso Chamber Orchestra from 1985-1989, and founded several chamber music series' in the San Francisco area in the 1980's. In 1989 Stefan Hersh joined the Vancouver Symphony as Assistant Concertmaster where he remained until joining the Minnesota Orchestra in 1991. Stefan Hersh has been heard as a chamber musician, soloist, and recitalist nationwide in venues including the Bard, Ravinia, Olympic, Skaneatles, Moab, Taos, Colorado College, Roycroft and Chamber Music West festivals. In 1993 Hersh performed Mozart's Concertone for Two Violins with Violinist Joseph Silverstein and the Minnesota Orchestra. Hersh's 1995 solo performance of Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with the Minnesota Orchestra drew critical praise from the press and was featured on national radio broadcasts through Public Radio International. Stefan Hersh comes from a musical family. Hersh's paternal
grandparents were both professional musicians. Recital collaborations
between Hersh and his father, pianist Paul Hersh have included complete
Beethoven and Brahms Sonata Cycles across the U.S. and lecture/performance
residencies at a number of American Universities. Stefan Hersh can be
heard on a CD of Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano released in 2004
and on the Callisto Ensemble's debut recording, a CD of chamber works
of Augusta Read Thomas in 2006.
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