Biography
Tristan Siegel is a New York City-born violinist and the Assistant Concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, one of the oldest ensembles in the United States. An active chamber musician, he recorded Beethoven chamber works for NAXOS in 2019 as part of the label’s 250th Anniversary Collection of Complete Beethoven Works. He has performed chamber music with artists including Jorja Fleezanis, Stephen Wyrczynski and Karen Dreyfus, and as part of the United Nations Chamber Music Society. He has performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Apex Ensemble.
Tristan has taken part in many leading festivals, including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy, Taipei Music Academic Festival, Pacific Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Round Top, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. He was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Stulberg International String Competition.
Since November 2024, Tristan has served as Creative Director of Media Relations for IMSLP, the world’s largest digital library of public domain music scores. He collaborates with prominent classical musicians to produce video content for social media, from concept and filming through editing and audio production.
He also maintains an active teaching studio of students at all levels, with posts at the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ and the Diller-Quaile School of Music in New York. Suzuki Certified and a member of the Suzuki Association of America, he studied violin pedagogy at Indiana University with Dr. Brenda Brenner and Mimi Zweig in collaboration with the IU String Academy.
Tristan earned a Performance Certificate in Orchestral Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Lisa Kim and David Chan, and a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Tai Murray. He graduated magna cum laude from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music with a BM and Performer Diploma in Violin Performance, studying with Alex Kerr, alongside a BA in Chinese with a focus on business and political science. He received a full graduate tuition scholarship.
Tristan believes a musician should be well-rounded and adaptable: performing, creating, teaching, and staying curious beyond music all make for a better artist and a better person. He was generously granted extended use of several instruments from the Chimei Museum Collection in Tainan, Taiwan, and today performs on an 1878 Hippolyte Chrétien Silvestre.
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