Arnold, Paul

He is a violinist and music director born in New York who studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1974 to 1978 and joined the Rochester Philharmonic as a second violin before becoming a member of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1983.

He is also a busy chamber musician who has appeared as a guest with all the chamber music ensembles that are established in Philadelphia. He is a founding member of the Dalihapa Ensemble and the Society Hill Quintet, performs with Network for New Music and is a participant in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Chamber Series and Postlude concerts, where he has performed more than 30 times. Working in collaboration with other ensembles and artists he has performed with Martha Argerich in the Saratoga Chamber Series, Christoph Eschenbach, New Arts Trio, the Emerson Quartet. along with several others.

As a music director he worked for six years on the outreach series of The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Involved in audience interfacing he has, for over 25 years, presented his “I Have a Friend in the Orchestra” in PreConcert Conversations for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

In the field of musical education he worked at the Curtis Institute of Music as an overseer to the Board of Directors for six years from 2010 and is a regular coach for the Curtis String Symphony. Working as a coach at other schools he has been an artist coach at the National Youth Orchestra and the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland. He has also been on the Special Arrangement Violin Faculty of the Nelly Berman School of Music. He also gives master classes throughout the United States.

The character Paul Pfeiffer in the TV series The Wonder Years is based on him.

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