In the past three decades, violinist Gerald Itzkoff has performed a vast amount of chamber music literature, toured and recorded with the Boston Symphony, served as concertmaster of the New Hampshire Symphony, premiered many contemporary works, and performed the complete Beethoven Piano Trios on original instruments. As a soloist and concertmaster with the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra, he toured Mexico, Canada, South America, the Far East, and Europe. He has worked and studied with many eminent musicians, among them Raphael Bronstein, Philipp Naegele, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Silverstein, Josef Gingold, Roger Norrington and Bernard Haitink. He has played in the first violin section of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for the past fifteen seasons. Mr. Itzkoff is a founder of the Amicus Chamber Series, which features free chamber music concerts in Cincinnati. He has recorded on the CRI, Gasparo, and GM labels, and he recently released a solo CD, Twentieth Century Romantic, with pianist Philip Amalong, on the Titanic label.