Marta Zurad

Director, NEC Preparatory String Orchestra; Violin

Marta Zurad, director of the NEC Preparatory String Orchestra and a member of the Prep violin faculty, is a very active chamber musician, and is a past participant of Yellow Barn Music Festival and Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival. She plays regularly with a number of local chamber groups, both as a violinist and a violist. She is a member of the Lexington Symphony, and has performed with many other orchestras in the Boston area.

An experienced conductor of youth orchestras, Zurad leads the Young People's String Orchestra and the Intensive Community Program Orchestra at the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. She was the founder and conductor of the Longy Concertino and Sinfonietta. She serves as an adjudicator for various local concerto competitions.

M.M., Longy School of Music; B.M., Graduate Diploma, New England Conservatory; Academy of Muisc in Krakow, Poland. Teachers: Wieslaw Kwasny, Valeria Kuchment, Eric Rosenblith. Also faculty of Rivers Conservatory, Longy School of Music, Winchester Community Music School.

2011-12-13