Samuel Rhodes
Viola

Samuel Rhodes is celebrating his 38th year as a member of both the Juilliard String Quartet and the faculty of the Juilliard School where he is chair of the viola department. He also has been a participant of the Marlboro Music Festival since 1960 and is a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center. His solo appearances have included several recitals at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and an unaccompanied recital at the Juilliard School highlighted by world premieres of works by Milton Babbitt and Arthur Weisberg. Mr. Rhodes, a native New Yorker, studied the viola with Sydney Beck and Walter Trampler. He has a B.A. from Queens College of the City University of New York and an M.F.A. from Princeton University, where he studied composition with Roger Sessions and Earl Kim. This season, the Juilliard quartet is celebrating its 60th anniversary by presenting the cycle of six quartets of Bela Bartok in seven different cities including New York and Tokyo.