Jack Kessler is a bachelor’s student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies viola with Roberto Diaz and Edward Gazouleas. He previously worked with Michael Klotz at Florida International University. Jack performed with fellows of the New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas from 2015 to 2019. He was a National YoungArts Foundation finalist in 2019 and has performed for distinguished artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Steven Tenenbom, and performed on NPR’s From The Top with Jeremy Denk at Dartmouth College. In recent summers, Jack has studied at Center Stage Strings, Bowdoin International Music Festival, in The Perlman Music Program, and at the Ashkenasi-Kirshbaum Chamber Music Seminar at the Heifetz International Music Institute.
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