Violinist Axel Strauss performs throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. A native of Germany, he balances his performance schedule with his position as Professor of Violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has won numerous prizes including the 1998 Naumburg Violin Award and the silver medal at the Enescu competition when he was only seventeen. He has toured Japan with the Philharmonic Violins Berlin and Germany with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. He made his American début at the Library of Congress in Washington DC and his first of many New York concerts was presented at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully hall in 1998. He performs on an outstanding violin by J. F. Pressenda, Turin 1845, on extended loan through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society in Chicago.