ANDREW FOUTS (violin) currently resides, teaches and freelances in the Bay Area. His modern violin instruction began here with Zoya Leybin and continued at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Mitchell Stern and Charles Castleman. Andrew began playing baroque viola while working with Paul O'Dette in Eastman's Collegium Musicum and continued his early music study on violin and viola with Jeanne Lamon and Linda Melsted. He has participated in Tafelmusik's Baroque Summer Institue, The Berkeley Fringe Festival, The Quartet Program, and L'Academie de Musique de Sion and this summer will be performing at the Musica nel Chiostro festival in Batignano, Italy. Andrew has recorded Steve Reich's The Desert Music on Canteloupe records and has been heard in recital on Buffalo's NPR affiliate.