nathan giem, violin
Violinist Nathan Giem will begin as Concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the fall. Formerly, he served as the first concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and as first concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra and concertmaster of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He was guest concertmaster of the Los Angeles Camerata Orchestra for its 2004 tour of China. A student of Franco Gulli and Alexander Kerr (among others), he received a 2005 Fulbright Scholarship to study Orchestral Leadership in the Netherlands. Giem has since performed as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster across Europe, Japan and the United States. He is music director of the VSA Oberlin Acoustics Workshop and performs on a 2010 Joseph Curtin violin.