Zakarias Grafilo

Pre-College
  • Chamber Music
  • Large Ensemble
  • New Millennium Ensemble Director
Continuing Education
  • Violin

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Departments

Pre-College
Continuing Education

Education

B.A. - San Francisco State University

Honorary Degrees

St. Lawrence University

Allegheny College

Presidential Medal - Baruch College (CUNY)

Ensembles

Alexander String Quartet - 1st violinist (2002-present)

Pacific Symphony - Principal 2nd violinist (2000-2002)

Opera Pacific - Principal 2nd violinist (2001-2002)

Stockton Symphony - Concertmaster (1999-2001)

Q&A

What is your hometown?

San Francisco

What is your favorite recording? Why?

Snarky Puppy - Lingus (We Like it Here). Corey Henry's solo...if you know, you know.

What are you passionate about outside of music?

Cooking. Arranging music

Who were your major teachers?

Serban Rusu, Alexander Treger

What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?

How to practice efficiently

What was a turning point in your career?

Joining the Alexander String Quartet in 2002

If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?

Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich

What is your unrealized project?

Performing/recording works by Filipino composers

What do you think makes a concert experience unique?

Taking the audience on a musical journey and being the conduit between the composer and the listener

Please list your most important collaborations.

Joyce Yang, Branford Marsalis, Robert Greenberg

What recordings can we hear you on?

Apotheosis Vol. 3 - Mozart Viola Quintets (Alexander String Quartet & Paul Yarbrough) [Foghorn Classics: FCL2024]
Dvořák – Locale (Alexander String Quartet & Joyce Yang) [Foghorn Classics: FCL 2020]
Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (Alexander String Quartet) [Foghorn Classics: FCL 2002]

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