Violinist Todd Phillips made his solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of thirteen. He has appeared with many orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan since that time, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, of which he has been a member for more than forty years. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1982 with the New York String Orchestra, and solo performances in Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Symphony Hall soon followed. Mr. Phillips is a founding member of the legendary Orion String Quartet, which has been the Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mannes College of Music, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Their performances and recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets have been universally praised for their insightful and uncompromising interpretations. His other extensive chamber music activities have included performances of the Marlboro, Spoleto, Santa Fe, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, and Lockenhaus Festivals, the 92nd Street Y, and he has participated in several tours with Musicians From Marlboro. Mr. Phillips is a faculty member at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he is Artistic Director of the chamber music intensive program CMI@CIM as well as the CIM Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.