Peter Winograd | Violin
Peter Winograd (violin) joined the American String Quartet in 1990. He gave his first solo public
performance at the
age of 11, and at age 17 he was accepted as a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay at The
Juilliard School.
Re-cognized early as an exceptionally promising young artist, Winograd was a top prize
winner in the 1988 Naumburg
International Violin Competition.
He then made his New York debut to critical acclaim
and
has
since appeared as a
guest soloist with numerous orchestras and in recital across the country and abroad, including
annual collaborative
performances with cellist Andrés Díaz at the Florida Arts Chamber Music Festival. In 2002
Winograd performed the
Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Hartford Symphony; his father, Arthur Winograd, was the
featured guest conductor.
Winograd has been a member of the violin and chamber music faculties of the Manhattan School of
Music and the Aspen
Music School (where the American is Quartet-in-Residence) since 1990.
Born into a gifted
musical
family, Winograd began
his studies with his parents. His mother was a professional pianist, and his father was the
founding cellist of the
Juilliard Quartet and a conductor of the Hartford Symphony in Hartford, Connecticut, where
Winograd grew up.
He holds
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard. His wife, violinist Caterina Szepes, is a
regular participant in the
Marlboro Festival and a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orches-tra. His violin is by Giovanni
Maria del Bussetto
(Cremona, 1675).