Jethro Marks

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Jethro Marks is a Canadian-American classical violist. He is the founding violist of the Zukerman Chamber Players and the Principal Violist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Born in Vancouver to a musical family, he began with the violin as a child and made his solo debut at 17 with the Loudoun Symphony in Virginia, performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. He later switched to viola, studying with Atar Arad at Indiana University. In 1998 he studied with Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music. Marks has won the Kuttner Quartet Competition, the Indiana University Concerto Competition, and the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition. As a chamber musician, he has appeared at major festivals such as Ravinia, Aspen, Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Mostly Mozart, and the BBC Proms, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall with artists including Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tree, Yefim Bronfman, and Lynn Harrell. With the Zukerman Chamber Players he has given more than 40 concerts worldwide and recorded two CDs since 2003. The group toured the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe in 2003–2007 and recorded chamber music by Brahms, Dvořák, and Mozart on the Altara label. In January 2007 he gave the world premiere of Steven Gellman’s Viola Concerto with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra to critical acclaim.