Benjamin Nisbet, music director & founding member
Benjamin Nisbet maintains a diverse performance schedule as a violinist. He holds a B.M. from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Marilyn McDonald and most recently began his Masters of Music at the University of Arizona, where he is Concertmaster of University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra. He is currently in his fifth season as a member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. He is a founding member and musical director of Artifact Dance Project, a newly established dance company in the Tucson Community. Ben serves as Concertmaster of the Bella Carita Chamber Orchestra as well as Principal Second Violin of Tucson Chamber Artists. He was Second Violin of the Sonora String Quartet, a group hailed as "Best New Classical Artist" by Tucson Weekly in 2006. He currently performs as a founding member of the Kingfisher String Quartet (established in 2008), a group that has performed extensively throughout Southern Arizona. During the summer, he performs with the St. Andrew's Bach Society and serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the organization.
Ben remains active in music education in the Tucson Community by teaching privately as well as in public schools such as Tucson High School. He coaches the local youth orchestra, Tucson Philharmonia Youth Orchestra and has been a faculty member for the past six years of Chamber Music in the Mountains, hosted by Tucson Junior Strings. As of 2009, Mr. Nisbet plays on a violin crafted in 2007 by Zoran Stilin.
