Brandon Garbot, American violinist, grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he received his early music training. From there, he studied in Cleveland with William Preucil and received his Bachelor Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt. From the beginning, his musical life revolved around chamber music. He has since performed at festivals such as Verbier, Ravinia, YellowBarn, Gstaad and Krzyzowa-Music and has collaborated with musicians such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Viviane Hagner, Kim Kashkashian, Ivan Monighetti, and Helena Winkelman. As a soloist, he has performed with several orchestras in the USA, including on tour with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra, and in June 2024 he will perform the Hartmann Concerto Funebre with the Kammerorchester Basel. Garbot has been guest concertmaster of Festival Strings Lucerne and also various guest leading positions with Stuttgart Kammerorchester, and Camerata Bern.  He is also a substitute violinist with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and is regular guest with the chamber music collective Camerata Variabile. He was awarded the Music Prize of the Kiefer-Hablitzel and Göhner Foundation in 2022 and is a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Foundation. He is currently studying with Rainer Schmidt at the Musik Akademie Basel. He received further instruction and influence from Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried and the late Leon Fleisher.