NAOMI GRAF

Naomi Graf, violist, performs a wide variety of programs as a chamber musician, recital soloist and orchestral player. A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music (B.M.) and the Yale School of Music (M.M.) she enjoys freelancing in the New York Metropolitan Area. Her extensive performances have taken her to the stages of Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall (Avery Fisher Hall), Alice Tully Hall and many other prominent New York venues. Naomi has served as the principal violist for the Connecticut Grand Opera Orchestra and currently performs in the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Lumos, Palm Beach Symphony and Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. She can be heard in recordings including The Complete Haydn Masses with the Trinity Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra on the Hanssler Classic label. Naomi Graf performs frequently as a chamber musician with Kol Arts Chamber Players, NEMC Faculty Concerts, HBMS Faculty Artist Series, Eastern Music Festival Chamber Players and Cirrus Ensemble.

Naomi teaches viola to a multitude of students both privately and in groups. Many have participated in New York Conference All-State and All-Eastern Festivals and have been accepted into Major Conservatory Programs and Ivy League Schools. Naomi created and directed the Viola Club at Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale, NY where she was also the Co-Director of the Chamber Music Program and Private Lesson Teacher. Her “Viola Club” ensemble premiered “Good Working Order” by Conrad Winslow (commissioned for Viola Club) at the 2016 American Viola Society Festival in Oberlin, Ohio. In 2024, her newly formed student Viola Voce Ensemble was selected and invited to perform at the American Viola Society Festival in Los Angeles, CA. On stage at Colburn School of Music, they performed as a quartet and participated in the premiere of two works for large viola ensembles. In the summers, Naomi has taught at Eastern Music Festival, New England Music Camp, Westchester Suzuki Institute and the Cirrus Ensemble Summer Chamber Music Program.

In addition to performing and teaching, Naomi creates and administers various music programs. She is currently the Director of the Kol Arts Music and Arts Program in White Plains, NY. Naomi designed and managed the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Educational Outreach Program and coordinated with the American London Symphony Orchestra Foundation to create a transatlantic development strategy. She wrote the text for the “Sound of Strings” Quartet Lecture/Demonstration for the Queensborough Community College Residency Program. She envisioned and then produced the “Casual Classics” Concert Series in Ithaca, NY. Ms. Graf has served on the Boards of Music’s Recreation in Ithaca, NY and the New York Viola Society.