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Austin Hartman
Violin
Having an enthusiasm for teaching and performance, violinist Austin Hartman of Columbia, Pennsylvania, enjoys an active career that has featured him in concerts and masterclasses around the world. As a founding member of the Biava Quartet, Mr. Hartman has most recently been awarded an Artist Diploma from Yale University School of Music where he served as a teaching assistant for the Tokyo Quartet.
Austin Hartman has also earned recognition as a solo violinist and recitalist. In 1999, Mr. Hartman was awarded first place, the Gold Medal Prize at the Julius and Esther Stulberg International String Competition in Michigan. As the winner of the Albert Greenfield and the Mann Music Center Concerto Competitions, Austin Hartman was featured as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing under the baton of Maestro Luis Biava (for whom the quartet is named). Mr. Hartman has also made solo appearances with the Kennett Symphony, the Landsdowne Symphony, the Temple University Orchestra, as well as the Lancaster Symphony and The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra as winner of the annual concerto competition.
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Committed to the performing of the solo violin repertoire, Mr. Hartman has also been featured in recitals, including a performance at the state dinner for former Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. In 1998, he received a first prize scholarship for outstanding musical excellence from the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts and most recently he has been awarded a grant from Chamber Music America for continued work in community outreach.
Austin Hartman has received degrees from The New England Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a student of Donald Weilerstein. His other teachers have included Yumi Scott, Choong-Jin Chang, Ronda Cole, Carolyn Moyer and the late Jascha Brodsky.
Outside of his life in the Biava Quartet, Mr. Hartman also enjoys using his music for community service and outreach. In 2003, he traveled with a group of musicians to share music in Zambia, Africa as part of a missions outreach. This upcoming year, Austin Hartman will be heading a concert idea titled the "Vivaldi Project" which seeks to bring professional and local community musician together in a performance of Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons".
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