Joseph Gottesman
Viola
Broadway
Joseph Gottesman performs and teaches in a wide variety of musical arenas. Recently he performed as viola soloist for Lincoln Center's acclaimed production of Bernarda Alba. He has also served as violist for the Broadway productions of Aida, Bombay Dreams, and for the national production of Phantom of the Opera. Mr. Gottesman is on the faculty of the Chamber Music and Composers Forum of the East at Bennington College. He has served as Professor of Viola at Western Washington University, where he coached chamber music and conducted performances of the WWU chamber and symphony orchestras.
The winner of the 1986 Kahn Award for the Arts, Mr. Gottesman has been a member of The American String Project since 2003 and also has performed with Seattle Symphony, the Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Lincoln Center, The New York Pops, and Musica Viva. He has served as Principal Violist of the Little Orchestra Society and was Assistant Principal Violist of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Music Festival of the Hamptons. A frequent guest artist with the Seattle Chamber Players and the Omni Ensemble, Mr. Gottesman has recorded chamber music for the International Franz Schubert Institute of Vienna and Albany Records. He has appeared on NHK-TV's (Tokyo) The Classical Hour "Live from Steinway Hall." In addition to performances in forty states, Mr. Gottesman has toured Japan (seven times) and Central America in various capacities, performing as an orchestral and chamber musician, and giving clinics and master classes.
Joseph Gottesman was a scholarship student of Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory. He received his Master in Music from the Boston University School of Fine Arts as a teaching assistant and full scholarship student of Raphael Hillyer. He has also studied chamber music with Eugene Lehner of the legendary Pro-Arte and Kolisch Quartets.