Faculty Bio: Peter Rovit

As a chamber musician, recitalist and soloist, violinist Peter Rovit has performed in Saint Petersburg (Russia), Havana (Cuba) and throughout the U.S., including music festivals such as Aspen, Taos, Yellow Barn, and Skaneateles.  A concerto competition winner at both the Hartt School and at SUNY Stony Brook, Rovit has also performed as a soloist with the Montgomery Symphony, the Fort Smith Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and Symphoria. 

He loves to share his knowledge and experience with young musicians and has been on the string faculty of the University of Oklahoma, University of Alabama, and Hamilton College.  His students have gone on to study at such schools as Juilliard, Rice, and Eastman, and have won positions in professional orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Symphoria, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra.

Rovit has been Associate Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Concertmaster of the Tuscaloosa Symphony and is currently Concertmaster of The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly named Symphoria). He was among the last students of Josef Gingold at Indiana University, where he also studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. Rovit's other teachers have included Mitchell Stern, Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet), Cho-Liang Lin, Paul Kantor and Donald Weilerstein.