LUDOVIC MORLOT NAMES NOAH GELLER AS THE DAVID & AMY FULTON CONCERTMASTER

GELLER TO JOIN THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY IN SEPTEMBER 2018

EATTLE, WA – Music Director Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony announce that Noah Geller will become the David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster beginning in the 2018–2019 season.

Morlot shared, “We’re thrilled to welcome Noah as our Concertmaster and I greatly look forward to collaborating with him in Seattle. I’ve admired Noah’s musicianship for many years, and I’m so excited to see him in this role. I want to thank our audition committee for their excellent work in helping to select Noah. He will be a wonderful addition to the Seattle Symphony family.”

“I am deeply humbled and honored to have been chosen as the next concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony,” shared Geller. “I cannot wait to begin making music with all the fantastic musicians in the orchestra and Maestro Morlot. Seattle is such a vibrant town and blessed to have the world-class Benaroya Hall, a place I look forward to calling my musical home. One of the great things about being a performer is the ability to communicate widely without using words, and it will bring me great joy to experience this kind of unique communication with each person in the audience every time we play. I am eager to begin this next chapter of my life and I look forward to welcoming everyone in Seattle to our concerts!”

Geller is currently Concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony, and prior to this held posts in The Philadelphia Orchestra as a first violin section member and later as Acting Assistant Concertmaster. He attended The Juilliard School for both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, and has also performed with many chamber and festival organizations around the U.S. including the Marlboro Music Festival, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, and here in the Pacific Northwest at the Olympic Music Festival in Port Townsend, Wash.

NOAH GELLER

Violinist Noah Geller has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad. At the invitation of Music Director Michael Stern, Geller became the Kansas City Symphony concertmaster in 2012. He has since appeared frequently as soloist with the Symphony. He made his solo recording debut on the Kansas City Symphony’s most recent release with Reference Recordings featuring music by Saint-Säens. In addition to his activities at the Symphony, Geller is an enthusiastic music educator. Upon his arrival in Kansas City, he was appointed to the position of adjunct associate professor of violin at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Geller began his professional career in the first violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2007 while still pursuing his master’s degree. He served as acting assistant concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra for the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Geller also has performed as guest concertmaster with the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Houston and Beijing (China National Symphony).  In addition to his large-scale orchestral activities, Geller appears regularly with the dynamic and spirited conductor-less group, East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO).

An active chamber musician, Geller has performed at the Heartland, Kingston, Marlboro, Saratoga and Skaneateles festivals, and he has appeared on the Lyon and Healy (Chicago), Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Lyric Chamber Music Society (New York) series, among others. He is an original member of Shir Ami, an ensemble dedicated to the music of composers whose lives were adversely affected by the Holocaust. Geller has organized and presented concerts by Shir Ami for the Kansas City community, garnering remarkable support and enthusiasm. 

Geller grew up in the Chicago area, studying privately with Jennifer Cappelli. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied with Hyo Kang, Donald Weilerstein and Cho-Liang Lin. Geller currently lives in Kansas City with his wife, percussionist Mari Yoshinaga, and their dog, Monkey and will be moving to Seattle in the fall of 2018. He performs on a violin made by Andreas Postacchini c. 1840.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY

The Seattle Symphony is one of America's leading symphony orchestras and is internationally acclaimed for its innovative programming and extensive recording history. Under the leadership of Music Director Ludovic Morlot since September 2011, the Symphony is heard from September through July by more than 500,000 people through live performances and radio broadcasts. It performs in one of the finest modern concert halls in the world — the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall — in downtown Seattle. Its extensive education and community engagement programs reach over 65,000 children and adults each year. The Seattle Symphony has a deep commitment to new music, commissioning many works by living composers each season. The orchestra has made nearly 150 recordings and has received three Grammy Awards, 23 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and numerous other accolades. In 2014 the Symphony launched its in-house recording label, Seattle Symphony Media.

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