Violin Teacher in NYC

Joseph Carlomagno began playing music as a folk musician in New England. He later completed his violin performance studies in New Orleans with Amy Thiaville, spent summers at the Jacobs School of Music studying with Michel Boris Zaitzeff, and the Aspen Music Festival and School with Espen Lilleslåtten. Joseph is a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar. He also studied molecular biology at Tulane University, composition and theory at McGill University, and German at the Universität Wien.

In addition to violin studies, Joseph proceeded with orchestral conducting, studying at the Manhattan School of Music with George Manahan. He has been mentored by Bernard Labadie with Les violons du roy and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Leonard Slatkin, who invited him to a masterclass with the Detroit Symphony.

He returned in 2021 to the Aspen Music Festival as a conducting fellow, studying with Robert Spano and Hugh Wolff. He has participated in masterclasses with Daniela Candillari, Roderick Cox, and Neeme Järvi. He also assisted Pinchas Zukerman and Jane Glover at the Fort Worth Symphony. In 2022, he was selected by a panel of musicians from the Wiener Philharmoniker as the AAF/Faber Young Conductors Fellowship recipient at the Salzburger Festspiele.