Lawrence Dutton, violist of the nine-time Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet, has collaborated with many of the world’s great performing artists, string quartets, and piano trios. Since 2001, Dutton has been the Artistic Director of the Hoch Chamber Music Series at Concordia College in Bronxville, NY. He has been featured on three albums with the Grammy-winning jazz bassist John Patitucci on the Concord Jazz label, and with the renowned Beaux Arts Trio on the Philips label. His Aspen Music Festival recording with Jan DeGaetani for Bridge records was nominated for a Grammy. Dutton has appeared as soloist with many American and European orchestras, and as guest artist at music festivals across the world. With the late Isaac Stern, he collaborated in the International Chamber Music Encounters both at Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. Dutton is currently Distinguished Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at Stony Brook University and at the Robert McDuffie School for Strings at Mercer University in Georgia. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Juilliard School and has received Honorary Doctorates from Middlebury College in Vermont, The College of Wooster in Ohio, Bard College in New York and The Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. Mr. Dutton and the other members of the Emerson Quartet were inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2010 and were Musical America’s Ensemble of the year in 2000. Dutton exclusively uses Thomastik Spirocore strings and performs on a Samuel Zygmuntowicz viola (Brooklyn, NY 2003).