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Joel Braun is Associate Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas at Austin. As an orchestral musician he has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic. He is a former member of the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic and currently serves as Assistant Principal Bass of the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra under the direction of Gerard Schwarz. As a soloist and chamber musician, Joel has concertized at major universities, conservatories, and music festivals throughout the United States. As an in-demand pedagogue, he has presented master classes at such institutions as the Universidad Nacional de Música in Lima, Perú, Indiana University, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He has held faculty positions at Ball State University and The Juilliard School Pre-College Division. His principal study was with Eugene Levinson at The Juilliard School where he earned a Pre-College Diploma, B.M., and M.M. degrees.