Violinist Aaron Berofsky has toured extensively throughout the United States and abroad, gaining wide recognition as a soloist and chamber musician. France’s Le Figaro calls his playing “beautiful, the kind of music-making that gives one true pleasure.” He has appeared in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Corcoran Gallery, Het Doelen, L’Octogone, Seoul National University, the Teatro San José and the Museo de Bellas Artes. As soloist, he has performed with orchestras in the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain, Korea and Canada. Some performance highlights include a cycle of Mozart violin sonatas at the International Festival Deiá in Spain, as well as performances and a recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, with pianist Phillip Bush. His 2025 recording of Mozart Sonatas on period instruments has been met with great acclaim.

Mr. Berofsky was the first violinist of the Chester String Quartet for fifteen years. The quartet was acclaimed as “one of the country’s best young string quartets” by the Boston Globe. Tours took them throughout the Americas and Europe. Some notable projects over the years included cycles of the quartets by Beethoven and Dvorak, and numerous recordings by such composers as Mozart, Haydn, Barber, Porter, Piston, Kernis and Tenenbom. The Chester Quartet served as resident quartet at the University of Michigan and at Indiana University South Bend.

Mr. Berofsky has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and on the Canadian Broadcasting Company. His acclaimed recordings can be found on the Sony, Naxos, New Albion, ECM, Audio Ideas, Blue Griffin and Chesky labels and he recorded the complete chamber music of Franz Xavier Mozart on the Equilibrium label. He was also featured soloist on the debut recording of Paul Fetler’s Concerto No. 2 for Naxos with the Ann Arbor Symphony. Along with his wife Kathryn and his sons Charles and Sebastian, he regularly performs with the Berofsky Piano Quartet.

Mr. Berofsky was a student of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. Other important teachers have included Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, Glenn Dicterow, Lorand Fenyves and Elaine Richey. Mr. Berofsky is Professor of Violin at the University of Michigan and has served as visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany. He taught at the Meadowmount School of Music and the Bowdoin International Music Festival and is a regular faculty member at the Richard Luby International Violin Symposium. He is currently Chair of the String Department at the Chautauqua School of Music and has given masterclasses throughout the world, including at Tianjin Juilliard, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin, Eastman, the Peter de Grote festival in the Netherlands, Domaine Forget in Quebec, Interlochen, the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival and the Conservatorio Palma Mallorca.

Mr. Berofsky has performed with the acclaimed chamber orchestra Tafelmusik on period instruments, and he made several recordings with them for the Sony Vivarte label. He co-runs University of Michigan’s Baroque Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble he created at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance with Ed Parmentier and Joe Gascho. He has also worked extensively with many leading composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, performing, commissioning and recording music by John Cage, William Bolcom, Zhou Long, Michael Daugherty, Aaron Jay Kernis, Susan Botti, Morton Subotnick, Paul Fetler and Bright Sheng. Mr. Berofsky is the Concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.