Joel Fuller
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First Violin
Joel Fuller is a member of the first violin section and currently acting associate principal second violin of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) of Washington, D.C. He was appointed by Christoph Eschenbach in 2009 after serving four years as assistant principal second violin of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
Fuller holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Michigan where his principal teachers were Vartan Manoogian and Paul Kantor. As a student, Fuller won both schools' concerto competitions and was the Grand Prize winner of the ASTA competition in Michigan.
A lover of chamber music, Joel Fuller is a founding member of the Last Stand Quartet with members of the NSO and a member of the IBIS Chamber Music Society. Recent solo engagements include concerto performances with the Londontowne Symphony, the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, and the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra. Fuller plays on a violin made in Cremona, Italy by Omobono Stradivari in 1724 named the ex-Powell.