Martin Beaver

As a part of the Tokyo String Quartet, he played the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin (circa 1727) on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation, part of the Paganini Quartet collection of instruments made by Antonio Stradivari.

[1] Beaver is now on the faculty at the Colburn School in Los Angeles and remains active as both a chamber musician and soloist.

In 2013, he founded the Montrose Trio with pianist Jon Kimura Parker and cellist Clive Greensmith.

His early violin teachers include Claude Letourneau and Carlisle Wilson.

During the fall of 2013, Beaver joined the faculty at The Colburn School as co-director of the String Chamber Music Studies Program and Professor of violin.