Violin
Peter Salaff was a founding member of the Cleveland Quartet. As part of the quartet he recorded more than 50 chamber works and received a Grammy Award, six Grammy nominations, and Best of the Year honors from Time and Stereo Review. The quartet toured the former Soviet Union, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Israel, the United States, Europe, and Canada.
Mr. Salaff has served on the faculties of the University of Concepción (Chile), the Cleveland Institute of Music, State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Eastman School of Music. He has also taught at numerous festivals, including Interlochen, Chamber Music in the Mountains at Echo Glen, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, and has coached chamber music and given masterclasses at conservatories and universities in the United States, Germany, Japan, Israel, and New Zealand.
Ensembles coached by Mr. Salaff have garnered prestigious international awards at the Naumburg Competition, the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Coleman Chamber Music Association Competition, and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. These ensembles include the Anderson, Cavani, Chester, Colorado, Dakota, Franciscan, Lafayette, Lark, Lydian, Meliora, Rackham, and Ying quartets. He has been a judge at many chamber music competitions, including the Yellow Springs Competition, the London International String Quartet Competition, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the Coleman Chamber Music Association Competition.
Mr. Salaff joined the Cleveland Institute of Music faculty in September 1995 as director of string chamber music.
He has been a member of the Music Academy faculty since 1996.