Joel Pitchon, violinist, is an Associate Professor of violin and chamber music at Smith College. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Mr. Pitchon studied with Oscar Shumsky and Joseph Fuchs. Mr. Pitchon is currently a member of the Smith Chamber Ensemble, the New Baroque Soloists and has been a member of the Walden Chamber Players. He has been the concertmaster of numerous orchestras, including the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona (Spain), the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and the EOS Chamber Orchestra (NY). For his performance of Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat with the EOS Orchestra, the New York Times wrote “…superb playing by Joel Pitchon…” Mr. Pitchon was a featured artist on the arts program “Cadencia” for TV3 Catalunya and profiled in STRAD magazine. He has performed in many concerts in the U.S. and abroad with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has appeared in numerous radio and television broadcasts including WGBH, WYNC and PBS television. Mr. Pitchon has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Vox Cum Laude, CBS Masterworks, and the Musical Heritage Society. He has recently made two recordings of sonatas and solo works by Porter, Piston, Amy Beach and Clifton J. Noble for Gasparo Records. His latest CD is of chamber works by Augusta Read Thomas with the Walden Chamber Players, released by ARTMusic in the spring of 2008.