Lorenz A Gamma
Associate Professor

Brief Biography

Lorenz Gamma is Professor of Violin and Head of Strings at California State University Northridge. His previous teaching includes positions at UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. Mr. Gamma also serves as Artistic Director of the Borromeo Music Festival in Switzerland. He has performed internationally a string quartet repertoire of over sixty composers as well as a large part of the standard chamber music repertoire of over a eighty composers. During his tenure as co-leader of the Amar Quartett in Switzerland, Mr. Gamma performed a full-time concert schedule touring through many of Europe’s most important chamber music venues, including the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Residence in Munich, the Cologne Philharmonic, as well as in venues in many other cities such as London, Paris, New York and others. His students have continued their studies at the Juilliard, Manhattan, Eastman and Colburn Schools, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Southern California, among others. Mr. Gamma has performed concertos by Bach, Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Bruch, Gubaidulina, Lutoslawski, Wynton Marsalis, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Piazzolla, Rubinstein, Schnittke, Schumann, Spohr, Tartini, Vivaldi, and Wieniawski. He has collaborated with chamber musicians such as Joseph Silverstein, Paul Katz, Ronald Leonard, Donald McInnes, Andreas Haefliger and Angela Cheng, and composers such as Heinz Holliger, Sofia Gubaidulina, Thea Musgrave and many others.

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