A founding member of the famed Guarneri String Quartet, Michael Tree has appeared as a soloist on both the violin and viola with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Los Angeles, and participated in the Marlboro, Aspen and Santa Fe music festivals. As a chamber musician, Mr. Tree has appeared all over the world and recorded more than eighty chamber music masterpieces; prominent among them are ten piano quintets and quartets with pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Mr. Tree studied violin with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he now serves as a faculty member, in addition to teaching positions at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, the University of Maryland and Rutgers. He plays a Domenicus Busan viola from Venice, 1750.