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Olivier Fluchaire (Violin, Viola, Chamber Music, Music History) has performed throughout Europe, Asia and the United States as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. The French-born violinist has been a first-prize winner in several international competitions, he has performed alongside Yehudi Menuhin, Nina Beilina, Martin Canin and members of the Guarneri, American, and Emerson string quartets. His busy schedule includes performances ranging from Broadway musicals to the stages of Carnegie Hall. His concerts has been broadcast on Radio France, BBC Television, MDR Leipzig, National Educational Television, WQXR (New York), National Public Radio, and he has recorded for Vox, Keuka and Newport Classics Labels. Mr. Fluchaire has served as acting concertmaster/assistant concertmaster for Broadway''s Lion King, and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, New York Pops, New York Chamber Symphony, Orchestra of the Bronx, Bacchanalia Orchestra, Connecticut Grand Opera, and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Manhattan School of Music, Olivier Fluchaire is currently a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, as a recipient of a New York Times Fellowship. He currently serves on the violin, viola, chamber music and music history faculty at the College of Staten Island and Hunter College, CUNY, and has recently been named Coordinator of Orchestral Studies at Hunter College, CUNY.