Music

Faculty

Viola

B.M., Florida State University; M.M., Yale University

Ronald Carbone, violist, enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances. He is principal violist of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a member of the Orchestra of St. Lukes. He was, for ten years, violist in the distinguished Composers String Quartet and Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Germany. Mr. Carbone was also a member of the Portsmouth Chamber Ensemble, Lexington Trio and Griffes String Quartet, recipients of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Inc. Award and two Artist International awards.  He was a member of the Atlanta Symphony conducted by Robert Shaw and the Barcelona City Orchestra, Spain. As a scholarship winner, he attended three A.F.of M. String Congress programs where he served as Concertmaster and Principal violist as well as the Tanglewood Festival where he received the viola prize. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music and holds degrees from Florida State and Yale Universities. Among his noted teachers were Boris Koutzen, Richard Burgin and Harold Coletta. He is currently on the faculty of Vassar College and the Chamber Music Conference of the East. His chamber music recordings are on Naxos, CRI, Albany and Reference-Records labels.