Danielle Maddon
Boston-based violinist Danielle Maddon performs on both period and modern violin with groups such as Emmanuel Music, Boston Baroque, The Handel & Haydn Society, and The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. She is concertmaster of Emmanuel Music, and is heard often on WGBH Boston's broadcasts of Emmanuel's Bach Cantata series. As a soloist, she has appeared with the New England Philharmonic, the Brookline Symphony, the Brandeis University Orchestra, Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Emmanuel Music, in concertos ranging from Vivaldi and Bach through Mendelssohn and Bruch, and on to Alban Berg and Witold Lutoslawski. In April 2002, she performed John Harbison's Violin Concerto with the New England Philharmonic. Her chamber music groups include Boston Musica Viva, Music At Eden's Edge, The Art of Music Chamber Players, and The Onyx Ensemble. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Texas Christian University and Ohio University, she was twice awarded full fellowships to both the Tanglewood and Los Angeles Philharmonic Institutes, where she won concertmaster positions for conductors Kurt Masur, Andre Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Leonard Slatkin. Post -graduate studies at Boston University include work with Rafael Druian, Eugene Lehner, Bayla Keyes, Raphael Hillyer, and the Muir String Quartet.