A highly sought-after violist, Eva Gerard has played solo recitals in such celebrated venues as The Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and Juilliard’s Paul Hall.

As an orchestral and chamber musician, Dr. Gerard has performed in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall as principal violist of the Juilliard Orchestra, BAM Café, Merkin Hall, MoMA’s Summergarden, Le Poisson Rouge, and Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre with Midori and Friends.

Dr. Gerard has also participated in such festivals as The Schleswig Holstein Orchestral Academy, Aspen Music Festival, The New York String Orchestra Seminar, and Juilliard’s Chamberfest. She has studied both modern and baroque viola, frequently performing with the early music ensemble Juilliard415.

Dr. Gerard is on the faculty of The School for Strings and the Hudson River School of Music. She has studied with Junah Chung, Karen Ritscher, Samuel Rhodes, and Masao Kawasaki. Chamber music coaches include such renowned musicians as Baruch Arnon, Peter Basquin, Nicholas Mann, and Michael Tree.

She completed her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at The Juilliard School and her doctoral studies at the CUNY Graduate Center with the completion of her dissertation, “Women's Contributions to Viola Repertoire and Pedagogy in the Twentieth Century: Rebecca Clarke, Lillian Fuchs, and Rosemary Glyde.”