The native New Yorker, Valerie Rubin is a prominent pedagogue in the tradition of of her teachers Ivan Galamian and Sandor Vegh. She studied violin at the Juilliard School of Music and at the Mozarteum Salzburg and took part in master classes with Yehudi Menuhin, Joseph Gingold as well as members of the Juilliard-, LaSalle-, and Tokyo String Quartets.
Since her solo debut in Carnegie Hall, Valerie Rubin has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster throughout Europe. She has been an invited guest at international chamber music festivals in Blonay, Kuhmo, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Prussia Cove, and has made numerous recordings for CDs and the major German radio stations.
Valerie Rubin is a sought after interpreter of contemporary music (Ars Nova Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Kontraste) as well as an enthusiastic baroque violinist.
Valerie Rubin is currently the leading violinist of “the rubin chamber players”, director of the chamber music series „Kammermusik im Aufseßhöflein“ in Bamberg, Germany and professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg, Germany.