Described as possessing a technical mastery and keen sensitivity while bringing the works of the composers to a living and breathing reality (Amberieu, France) Sophie Arbuckle is a co-founding director of the Port Jefferson Music Academy and a member of the Braude Ensemble. She also serves on the violin faculty at the Preparatory Division of the Mannes College of Music and at The School for Strings in New York City. She is on the artist/faculty of the Killington Music Festival (VT), the Green Mountain Music Festival (VT), and the Sulzbach-Rozenberg International Music Festival (Germany).
Throughout her career, Ms. Arbuckle has appeared as a member of various ensembles in all of the major concert halls in New York, in addition to having performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. She has appeared in several chamber music festivals, including Music@Menlo(California),where she co-directed the 2004 chamber music workshop, the Killington Music Festival (VT), Patrimoine en Musique des pays de l'Ain, and Fetes musicales de Savoie (France) as a member of the Braude Ensemble. She has served as guest concertmaster of the Sudbury Symphony (Canada), with whom she performed as a soloist on numerous occasions.
As a member of the Braude Ensemble, Ms. Arbuckle has performed in many prestigious venues such as the Royal Flemisch Philarmonie Chamber Music Series (Antwerp), Philarmonique de Namur (Theatre Royal, Ghent), Series Pont Rouge (Ghent), Astoria Concerts (Brussels), Festival des Arcs (France) where the ensemble was in residence in the summer 2004, and Fetes Musicales de Savoie (France) where the ensemble was featured on France 3 television. The Braude Ensemble is presently in residence at the Port Jefferson Music Academy and is the core of the Academy Concerts Series.
Ms. Arbuckle holds her MM degree from the Juilliard School. Her major teachers include Sally Thomas, Josef Gingold, Mauricio Fuks, Edith Peinemann and Arnold Steinhardt.
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