Naomi Graf

Naomi Graf performs a wide variety of programs as a chamber musician, recital soloist and orchestral player. A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music (B.M.) and the Yale School of Music (M.M.) she enjoys freelancing in the New York Metropolitan Area. Her extensive performances have taken her to the stages of Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall (Avery Fisher Hall), Alice Tully Hall and many other prominent New York venues. She has served as the principal violist for the Connecticut Grand Opera Orchestra and most recently performs in the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Lumos and Palm Beach Symphony. She can be heard in recordings including The Complete Haydn Masses with the Trinity Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra on the Hanssler Classic label. Naomi Graf also has performed frequently as a chamber musician with Kol Arts Chamber Players, NEMC Faculty Concerts, HBMS Faculty Artist Series, Eastern Music Festival Chamber Players. She continues to be inspired by her studies with Lillian Fuchs, Paul Kantor, Donald McInnes, and the Tokyo and Juilliard String Quartets.

Naomi teaches viola to a multitude of students both privately and in groups. Many have participated in New York Conference All-State and All-Eastern Festivals and have been accepted into Major Conservatory Programs and Ivy League Schools. Naomi created and directed the Viola Club at Hoff-Barthelson Music School for twenty years (documentary video below) where she was also the Co-Director of the Chamber Music Program and private lesson teacher. Her “Viola Club” ensemble premiered “Good Working Order” by Conrad Winslow (commissioned for Viola Club) at the American Viola Society Festival in Oberlin, Ohio. In the summers, Naomi has taught at Eastern Music Festival, New England Music Camp, Westchester Suzuki Institute and the newly formed Concertium, a “consortium” of musicians specializing in chamber music.

In addition to performing and teaching, Naomi creates and administers various music programs. She is currently the Director of the Kol Arts Music and Arts Program in White Plains, NY. Naomi designed and managed the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Educational Outreach Program, and coordinated with the American London Symphony Orchestra Foundation to create a transatlantic development strategy. She wrote the text for the “Sound of Strings” Quartet Lecture/Demonstration for the Queensborough Community College Residency Program. She envisioned and then produced the “Casual Classics” Concert Series in Ithaca, NY. Ms. Graf has served on the Boards of Music’s Recreation in Ithaca, NY and the New York Viola Society.