About

Violinist Sharon Roffman, prizewinner in the 2003 Naumburg Foundation International Competition, made her solo debut with the New Jersey Symphony in 1996. Since then, Ms. Roffman has forged a diverse career equally sought after as a soloist, chamber musician and music educator throughout the United States and abroad. Ms. Roffman made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins with Itzhak Perlman playing and conducting in 2004; as a chamber musician, Ms. Roffman has collaborated with members of the Guarneri quartet, Juilliard Quartet, Brentano Quartet, Shanghai Quartet, Avalon Quartet, and Miami Quartet among others, has been a frequent guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Meet the Music and Inside Chamber Music series, and spent several summers performing at the Marlboro Music Festival. Ms. Roffman was a member of the critically acclaimed contemporary music ensemble counter) induction from 2007-2009, and has performed all over the world as a guest member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, and Die Deutche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Passionate about education, Ms. Roffman is the founder and artistic director of ClassNotes, a chamber music ensemble and non-profit organization dedicated to introducing public school students to classical music through interdisciplinary school residencies and performances. Ms. Roffman is a concert artist and professor of violin at Kean University, and a member of the faculty at the Thurnauer School of Music in New Jersey. Ms. Roffman is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music; her former teachers include Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Peter Winograd, Robert Lipsett, Patinka Kopec and Nicole DiCecco. She currently resides in Paris, France.