Tam Tran

Tam Tran is an active soloist, chamber musician, and regular performer at the White House as a violinist and Assistant Principal violist of “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra. He has performed chamber music with members of the Emerson String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, Colin Carr, Itzhak Perlman, and Yo-Yo Ma, and he has played the “Axelrod” Stradivari from the Smithsonian’s collection in Washington, D.C. He has performed for the late Queen Elizabeth II and at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Camp David, and he has been featured on PBS, HBO, Late Show with David Letterman, and NPR’s Performance Today.

Tam studied with Emanuel Vardi at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Richard Young of the Vermeer String Quartet at Northern Illinois University, and Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet at Stony Brook University. He enjoys learning different genres of world music, including French Gypsy jazz, Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, Italian folk, Persian, Irish, Greek, and klezmer music.