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 Violinist Joel Fuller is a newly appointed member of the National Symphony Orchestra; he currently serves as the Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Joel also spent three years as the Assistant Concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic, enjoying many opportunities to solo with the orchestra there.
As a chamber musician, Joel was the first violinist of the University of Michigan Graduate String Quartet and founding member of the Sonare and Vanderbilt String Quartets. He is currently a member of the IBIS Chamber Music Society and Musica Aperta ensembles in Washington, D.C. As a student, Joel was awarded a three year orchestral fellowship to attend the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. He was one of only two to receive the honor for the 2001 summer season.
Joel received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Music degree in Violin Performance and Chamber Music from University of Michigan. His teachers include the late Vartan Manoogian and Paul Kantor. He has performed in master classes with some of the world's leading teachers and musicians such as Donald Weilerstein, Mark Steinberg, William Preucil, and Pamela Frank, among others. Joel has won numerous awards and competitions including the ASTA competition and both the University of Wisconsin Concerto Competition and the Universityof Michigan Concerto Competition.
Joel is honored to play on the "ex Powell" Omobono Stradivari violin, generously loaned to him by the John C. Schroeder trust for musical excellence.
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