Samuel Rhodes is a consummate artist, well known as a recitalist, orchestra soloist, recording artist, composer and teacher. The New York Times has called him “a remarkably sensitive violist” and the Washington Post has described him as a “master of the viola fit to stand with the instrument’s greatest.” As a member of the Juilliard String Quartet for 44 seasons, Mr. Rhodes recorded an extensive catalogue of the string quartet literature on the CBS Masterworks, Sony Classical, Wergo, and CRI labels and has won three Grammy Awards for the Debussy and Ravel Quartets, the complete Schoenberg Quartets, and the complete Beethoven Quartets. Mr. Rhodes serves as chair of viola at the Juilliard School and on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center, and has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival since 1960.