Dr. Brett Walfish

Dr. Brett Walfish, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Rushmore Music Festival, has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Ireland, Italy, and Israel. His concerts have taken him to Tel Aviv Opera House, the National Music Museum, the Historic Blackfriars Theatre, and Carnegie Hall, among others. Praised by the conductor David Effron for a warm sound full of a “myriad of colors,” Brett is an expressive and charismatic performer. He has collaborated with world-renowned artists including Philip Setzer, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Stephan Barratt-Due, Annie Fullard, Michael Klotz, Rudolf Koelman, Misha Vitenson, and Hillel Zori. He has also performed with the highly acclaimed conductorless chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, and the New World Symphony.

Mr. Walfish is a devoted teacher of violin, viola, and chamber music and has studied string pedagogy with the legendary Mimi Zweig at Indiana University and completed a two-year long-term Suzuki teacher training certification with Allen Lieb and Ekaterina Gerson at the School for Strings in New York City. He frequently travels across the United States for guest masterclasses and teaches privately through the Walfish Music School in Rapid City, SD and online.

He has recently joined the Valencia Baryton Project on a multi-week U.S. & Canada tour.

His students have been accepted to the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University Jacob’s School of Music, Harvard University, and Cornell University.

For more information about Brett Walfish please visit
www.walfishmusicschool.org