Curtis Macomber
Graduating class: 1970
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2002
Hall of Fame Category: Lifetime Achievement
Curtis began studying the violin at age seven under the direction of Blanche Moreau. As a youth he was a member of the Greater Boston Youth Orchestra from 1964 - 1970. A member of the FHS National Honor Society, he was awarded the Harvard Book Award and the Ethel Arnold Wood Scholarship. He attended the Julliard School, studying with Joseph Fuchs and earning BM, MM, and OMA degrees. He received the Morris Loeb Prize and a Walter Naumberg Scholarship.
In 1979 Curtis debuted at Carnegie Hall and the following year he won second prize in the Rockefeller Foundation International Violin Competition at the Kennedy Center. Other appearances have included the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and the Merkin Concert Hall.
Between 1982 and 1993 Curtis was first violinist of the award winning New World String Quartet, which was Harvard University's first Quartet-in-Residence. With that ensemble he performed in major concert series both in the United Sates and Europe. He has recorded both solo works and with the Quarter for the Nonesuch, Koch, CRJ, and Musical Heritage Society labels.
Since 1988 Curtis has been a member of the chamber music faculty of the Julliard School and a violin professor at the Manhattan School of Music since 1995.
(He is married to recording producer Judith Sherman and resides in New York City.)