Christopher Pulgram, violin
Concertmaster Christopher Pulgram
Christopher Pulgram is now in his 16th season as first violinist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He graduated under the tutelage of Ruggiero Ricci from the University of Michigan’s School of Music, where he received the Norman F. Maier Distinguished Music Student Award. As winner of the Atlanta Pro-Mozart Society Competition, Mr. Pulgram attended the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he coached with Sandor Vegh. After studies at the International Menuhin Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland, he toured in Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and the Far East, performing both as soloist and chamber musician with Yehudi Menuhin and Camarata Lysy. Additionally, Mr. Pulgram has recorded on the EMI label with Yehudi Menuhin at the Abbey Road studios in London. He was also the violinist of the Atlanta Chamber Players for 15 seasons, and has recorded extensively with that ensemble.
Mr. Pulgram has performed throughout Europe and the United States as principal violinist with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Switzerland and Italy, including 2001, 2003 and 2005 performances with the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra. He has served as concertmaster of the Elysium Chamber Orchestra in Atlanta, and during his tenure with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, he served as assistant concertmaster for two years. In the popular world, he has recorded with Usher and the group Collective Soul on its “Dosage” album. He recently recorded with Bruce Springsteen.
Mr. Pulgram first came to Wintergreen in 2003, and he has been the concertmaster of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra since 2007.
