A native of Los Angeles, California, violinist Timothy Braun has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. He has given recitals in international concert venues such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (Kleine Saal), Budapest’s Bela Bartok Palace of the Arts and Pretoria’s ZK Matthews Great Hall.
He has performed at many chamber music festivals, including the Itzhak Perlman Chamber Music Program (New York), Kneisel Hall Festival (Maine), Music@Menlo (California), as well as the Pan Pacific Festival (Sydney), Viana do Castelo (Portugal) as well as Kammermusikfest Kloster Kamp and Beethovenfest Bonn (Germany). He has collaborated with violinists Mihaela Martin, Jamie Laredo, Midori Seiler, violist Matthias Buchholz and cellists Ronald Leonard, Claus Kanngiesser, Paul Katz and Lynn Harrell, among others.
Mr. Braun was a Young Musician scholar of the Yehudi Menuhin Live-Music-Now Foundation (2010-2013) as well as the Villa Musica Foundation of Rheinland-Pfalz (2012-2015), where he has since become a guest artist and coach.
His principal mentors were Robert Lipsett at the The Colburn School in Los Angeles and Mihaela Martin at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne.
Currently First Concertmaster of the Saarländisches Staatsorchester (The State Orchestra of Saarland), Timothy Braun has served as guest Concertmaster with the Badisches Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Gurzenich Orchestra Cologne and the National Theater of Mannheim.
His first appearance with Chamber Soloists of Detroit was in the 2013 season.