Mark Mayerson
Mark Mayerson is a native Bostonian, having grown up in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he began his violin studies at age nine. He studied there with the former first violinist of the Stradivarius Quartet. He performed several recitals and was concertmaster of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, with whom he also performed as soloist.
He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he studied with the famous violin pedagogue Josef Gingold for six years. Mark graduated from Indiana with both a Bachelor of Music degree and a Master of Music degree with Highest Distinction. He also attended Ivan Galamian’s Meadowmount School of Music in New York, and he played in the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, where he was co-concertmaster.
In 1984, Mark was offered the post of first soloist with the Opera Orchestra in Antwerp. In 1988, he started free-lancing with the various orchestras in Belgium and Holland, including the Royal Flanders Philharmonic, the Belgian Radio Orchestra, and the Flanders Chamber Orchestra.
Mark has been teaching violin for more than 50 years to students of all ages and levels. He has taught privately at home as well as in schools in the USA, The Antwerp International School, and the evening music school in Duffel.
He also worked for a number of years in the IT sector and helped to write and publish the piano and violin method books.
