MICHAEL DABROSKI is an American violinist based in Havana, Cuba, and southwest Florida in the United States.

 

Since 1995 he founded and performed over 500 professional classical music events with his original and critically acclaimed chamber music organizations the non-profit Adirondack Ensemble (1995) and for-profit Burlington Ensemble LLC (2009), the benefit concert and music edition project The Bach Express: Enclaves of Beauty (2013), the Department of Music at Burlington College (2013), the fellowship program at Vermont Mozart Festival (2016), and string quartet program La Ruta de Mozart (Mozart’s Route) in Cuba (2017) with Lyceum Mozartiano de la Habana.

 

Mr. Dabroski believes it is his artistic responsibility to connect the benefits of music to the gathering of community to create compassion, inspire constructive change, or grieve during times of crisis.

 

His magnum opus or tour de force The Bach Express: Enclaves of Beauty project collaborates with institutions, communities and students.

 

The project utilizes Mr. Dabroski's original printed editions for audiences to receive and enjoy the sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. Ultimately music students utilizing Mr. Dabroski's printed editions study and perform the complete Violin Sonatas (BWV 1001-1006) and Cello Suites (BWV 1007-1012) via a learning cycle, proceeding from “Part I: Discovery Bach for Kids,” “Part II: For the Love of Chamber Music,” “Part III: What’s in the Counterpoint?” to “Part IV: All Aboard.”

 

Mr. Dabroski’s project method revolutionizes how a student or public understands Johann Sebastian Bach's music while incorporating a learning context and a humanitarian purpose unlike any other prior or existing Bach pedagogical or concert method. To date Mr. Dabroski has concert fundraised over $41,000, producing The Bach Express: Enclaves of Beauty project to benefit medical relief in Gaza since 2013.

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His ideas and projects receive major funding and title sponsorships including but not limited to individual donors, a benefit concert with Harry Connick Jr., Chamber Music America-Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation, Barenreiter, Charter One Bank and Merchants Bank of Vermont, New York State Council on the Arts, Steinway & Sons, Tree of Life Foundation and Rivendell Foundation. His projects are memorialized in Strad Magazine, Vermont Public Radio, Adirondack Life, Granma (Cuba), France 24, along with student collaborations from institutions including but not limited to Yale School of Music, The Juilliard School, Curtis, Manhattan School of Music, Rice University and University of Southern California. 

 

Praised for his “sensitive, beautifully nuanced, and clearly articulated” violin playing, Mr. Dabroski has performed solo violin and chamber music recitals in exclusive and underserved locations in Ireland, Cyprus, Gaza City, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, New York, Vermont, Florida, California and Montreal.

 

In addition to fundraising over $41,000 from solo violin concerts to support medical relief in Gaza since 2013, Mr. Dabroski is recognized as a distinguished alumni of Manhattan School of Music, providing sixty (60) highly talented graduate and post graduate music conservatory students a fellowship award to study music and business at Vermont Mozart Festival, hosting four (4) leading Cuban string players at Vermont Mozart Festival in 2017, providing tuition for seventy-five (75) high school music students from the remote Adirondack Park to attend Adirondack Ensemble’s Adirondack Music Camp program, concert fundraising over $25,000 for twenty-five (25) local charities as part of Burlington Ensemble LLC, and, taught and inspired the formation of numerous Cuban string quartet groups in La Ruta de Mozart festival over a ten (10) year period which served to advance their careers in Cuba and via immigration to foreign countries. 

 

Born in 1968 with perfect pitch, Mr. Dabroski started playing the violin at 5 years old in a Suzuki Method program at his public elementary school in Newburgh in New York State. He performed in Carnegie Hall at 13 years old as a member of the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra. As a junior high and school student he studied violin, chamber music, music theory and conducting at Rockland Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music pre-college division. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York City, and a Master of Music degree from Temple University in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania in the United States as a full scholarship recipient.

 

He participated at Apple Hill Center for Chamber music in New Hampshire in the United States with their original founding members during a twenty (20) year summer span between 1982 and 2002 as a Student, Counselor, Assistant Director, Director and Artist Faculty member. At Apple Hill he nurtured his love for chamber music and its potential to support humanitarian causes, like many leading contemporary artists today.

 

His musical mentors include Edward Simons, Stanley Bender, Rev. David Good, Eric Stumacher and Melvin Kaplan. His instrument collection include violins made by Sergio Peresson (1982) of New Jersey, Shehada Shalalda (2015) of  Ramallah, Juan Carlos Prado Castro (2021 and 2022) of Cuba, Ch. J.B. Collin-Mezin of Paris, a violin bow by Benoit Rolland (2013) of Massachusetts, a grand piano by Steinway & Sons (1923) of New York City, a grand piano by Weber (1923) of New York City, and a  studio piano by Bluthner (1923) of Leipzig. 

 

Mr. Dabroski will participate as an artist-in-residence at Al Kamandjati festival in Ramallah in Palestine in July, 2025. He will perform his original solo violin suites Gaza (2013), Hebron (2015), Ramallah (2017) and A Prayer for David (2025) throughout Palestine, New York and Connecticut during the summer and fall. He will lead an 8th edition of Mozart Route in 2025.