Mr. Geoffrey Trabichoff

GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF
L.G.S.M., A.G.S.M.
Artist-in-Residence, The College of Idaho
Violinist Langroise Trio
Concertmaster, Boise Philharmonic

Geoffrey has been concertmaster of various orchestras for more than thirty years. He began in 1974 as Associate Concertmaster of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal, and is currently Concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic. He has been Concertmaster of the Mannheim Chamber and Hannover State orchestras in Germany and, for fifteen years prior to coming to the United States, was Leader (Concertmaster) of the BBC Scottish Symphony in Glasgow, Scotland.

Whilst in Scotland Geoffrey recorded extensively for the BBC and collaborated with such renowned conductors as Lord Menuhin, Sir Alexander Gibson, Sir Charles Groves, Sir Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Igor Markevitch, Thomas Sanderling, Christopher Seaman, Mark Elder and many others. He was a frequent Guest Concertmaster with the London Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic.

Born in London, Geoffrey won a scholarship at age fifteen to the Guildhall School of Music, and subsequently studied with the great Russian pedagogue, Sascha Lasserson. Mr. Trabichoff began his career freelancing with the London Philharmonic and became a member of the London Mozart Players and the English Chamber Orchestra. He has toured Europe, North America and Israel and is featured on countless CDs as concertmaster and chamber musician.

In addition to his position with the Boise Philharmonic, Geoffrey is Artist-in-Residence at The College of Idaho and the violinist with the Langroise Trio. He and his wife, Judy, live in Caldwell, and their daughter, Nina, is planning to enter the music profession as a violist.