Violinist/Violist Carter Coleman has toured Europe and Japan with the orchestra academies of the Pacific Music Festival and the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, in which he held titled positions and worked with some of the world’s leading conductors. As a chamber musician, he has attended the Winter Workshop of Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, and the Juilliard Quartet Seminar. Carter has also attended the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove where he studied with Gerard Schulz of the renowned Alban Berg Quartet. He has collaborated in performance with Ida Kavafian, Peter Frankl, Catherine Cho, Colin Carr, Miriam Fried, Natasha Brofsky, Steve Tenenbom and Atar Arad, among others. As a mentor and teacher he has given masterclasses in conjunction with Chamber Music Abu Dhabi, the Kneisel Hall mentorship program for Maine students, and the Festival Del Lago in Ajijic, Mexico. Carter holds degrees from East Carolina University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School, where he was regularly selected for titled orchestral positions. In his free time, Carter enjoys jazz music, spending afternoons in nature, and Japanese Cinema.