Violinist and violist Toby Appel has appeared in recital and concerto performances throughout The Americas, Europe, and the Far Fast. He has been a member of such renowned ensembles as TASHI, and the Lenox and Audubon Quartets. Mr. Appel has been a guest artist with the Vermeer, Manhattan, and Composers Quartets as well as a frequent guest with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and with jazz artists Chick Corms and Gary Burton. Festival performances include those with Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Angel Fire, Ravinia, and Marlboro, as well as festivals in England, France, Italy, Finland, and Greece. In July of 2001 he will take part in the International Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany. Mr. Appel has been featured in a CBS television special performing works commissioned by him for three violas, all played by Toby Appel. Mr. Appel is a former winner of Young Concert Artists International.

A most versatile artist, Mr. Appel, has narrated performances including: A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, by Benjamin Britten, Ferdinand, by Alan Ridout and Munro Leaf, Ode to Napoleon, by Arnold Schoenberg, Histoire du Soldat, by Igor Stravinsky, Masque of the Red Death, by Andre Caplet and Edgar Allan Poe, and Facade, by William Walton and Edith Sitwell. Mr. Appel is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio's Performance Today.

Toby Appel entered the Curtis Institute at age 13 under the guidance of Max Aronoff. Mr. Appel is currently teaching on the viola and chamber music faculties at the Juilliard School in New York City. He has also held professorships at the State University of New York, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of New Mexico. He has toured for the United States State Department and performed at the United Nations and at the White House. His clamber music and recital recordings can be heard on the Columbia, Delos, Desto, Koch International, Opus 1, and Musical Heritage Society labels.

Toby Appel lives in New York City with his wife, Carolyn and their 8 year old son Jordan.

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