A former violinist with the Boston Symphony and longtime associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, Gerald Elias has performed on five continents as violinist, conductor, composer, and teacher. Since 2004 he has been music director of the Vivaldi by Candlelight concerts in Salt Lake City, and continues to perform with the Boston Symphony at their Tanglewood summer festival. He was first violin of the Abramyan String Quartet from 1993-2003 and has been a faculty member of the University of Utah School of Music since 1989.
As an author, Elias’s Daniel Jacobus mystery series, which takes place in the dark corners of the classical music world, has won extensive critical praise. His first two award-winnings novels, Devil’s Trilland Danse Macabre, were also released in 2017 as unique audio books produced by Alison Larkin Presents, with music performed by Elias. The sixth installment of the series, Spring Break, was released in the summer of 2017 by Severn House. The prestigious magazine, The Strad, wrote, “a very deftly written murder mystery…guaranteed to please.”
Elias’s first nonfiction book, Symphonies & Scorpions, published in 2017, provides an insider's view of an orchestra musician's life. Set against the backdrop of two historic Boston Symphony tours to Asia, iBerkshires commented that the book is "nothing less than a musical odyssey of discovery." And in another first, his musical children’s story, Maestro, the Potbellied Pig, has earned high praise. Elias’s short stories, provocative essays, and reviews have graced diverse and distinguished anthologies and online journals, from Ellery Queen Magazine to Opera magazine.
Elias attended Oberlin College and received degrees from Yale University. A native New Yorker, he resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, and West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he continues to expand his musical and literary horizons.
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Biography
A former violinist with the Boston Symphony and longtime associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, Gerald Elias has performed on five continents as violinist, conductor, composer, and teacher. Since 2004 he has been music director of the Vivaldi by Candlelight concerts in Salt Lake City, and continues to perform with the Boston Symphony at their Tanglewood summer festival. He was first violin of the Abramyan String Quartet from 1993-2003 and has been a faculty member of the University of Utah School of Music since 1989.
As an author, Elias’s Daniel Jacobus mystery series, which takes place in the dark corners of the classical music world, has won extensive critical praise. His first two award-winnings novels, Devil’s Trilland Danse Macabre, were also released in 2017 as unique audio books produced by Alison Larkin Presents, with music performed by Elias. The sixth installment of the series, Spring Break, was released in the summer of 2017 by Severn House. The prestigious magazine, The Strad, wrote, “a very deftly written murder mystery…guaranteed to please.”
Elias’s first nonfiction book, Symphonies & Scorpions, published in 2017, provides an insider's view of an orchestra musician's life. Set against the backdrop of two historic Boston Symphony tours to Asia, iBerkshires commented that the book is "nothing less than a musical odyssey of discovery." And in another first, his musical children’s story, Maestro, the Potbellied Pig, has earned high praise. Elias’s short stories, provocative essays, and reviews have graced diverse and distinguished anthologies and online journals, from Ellery Queen Magazine to Opera magazine.
Elias attended Oberlin College and received degrees from Yale University. A native New Yorker, he resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, and West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he continues to expand his musical and literary horizons.