Miles Hoffman Email & Phone Number

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www.YouTube.com/MilesHoffmanViolaMstislav Rostropovich called MILES HOFFMAN “one of the outstanding violists I have had the privilege to hear and one destined for a brilliant career,” and indeed over the past twenty years Mr. Hoffman has appeared frequently as viola soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, garnering glowing reviews for performances of concerto repertoire ranging from the baroque to the contemporary. Among the many orchestras with which he has performed as soloist are the Arkansas Symphony, Illinois Symphony, National Philharmonic, Lincoln (NE) Symphony, Greenville (SC) Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony, Missoula Symphony, El Paso Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic, Winston-Salem Symphony, and the United States Marine Band. As Music Commentator for National Public Radio’s flagship news program, Morning Edition, he is regularly heard by a national audience of nearly fourteen million people, and he has been a featured lecturer and keynote speaker for orchestras, universities, chamber music series, festivals, and other organizations. His musical commentary, “Coming to Terms,” was heard weekly throughout the country for thirteen years – from 1989 to 2002 – on NPR’s Performance Today, and his book, The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening, is now in its tenth printing from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Mr. Hoffman is founder and violist of the American Chamber Players, with whom he regularly tours the United States and Canada. With the ACP he has recorded works of Mozart, Bruch, Bloch, Stravinsky, and Rochberg for a series of compact discs produced by the Library of Congress and distributed internationally on the Koch International Classics Label. The American Chamber Players are Artists-in-Residence at the Society of the Four Arts, in Palm Beach, Florida, and the resident ensemble of the June Chamber Festival at the Kreeger Museum, in Washington, DC.

Website: www.ACPlayers.com"They have established standards of chamber music performance equal to any in the world," in the words of the Washington Post. And The New York Times said, "They appealed to the heart and the head, offering a warm, seductively luxurious sound and an impressive precision and unity of purpose." Among today's most exciting and innovative chamber music ensembles, THE AMERICAN CHAMBER PLAYERS were formed in 1985 by Miles Hoffman from a core group of artists of The Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival. The ensemble performs repertoire ranging from familiar masterpieces to neglected gems to newly commissioned American works, and their fascinating and delightful programs with varied instrumental combinations have been as enthusiastically praised as their extraordinary, dynamic performances. They have toured throughout North America, engaged and re-engaged by prestigious concert series from Florida to British Columbia, and they have traveled to Paris for a series of special gala concerts at the Paris Opera and the Bibliothèque Nationale. They have also been heard countless times on National Public Radio's Performance Today and on local radio stations throughout the United States. They are Artists in Residence at the Society of the Four Arts, in Palm Beach, Florida, and the resident ensemble of the June Chamber Festival at the Kreeger Museum, in Washington, DC.

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