Joseph Maile

As a co-founder of the Telegraph Quartet, violinist Joseph Maile was awarded the 2014 Fischoff Grand Prize and the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Maile has toured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, and the Eslite Concert Hall in Taiwan. Maile has performed with the Left Coast Ensemble, Vocallective, and the Zivian-Tomkins Duo, and he has collaborated with numerous chamber artists, including Ian Swensen, Norman Fischer, James Dunham, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Roger Tapping, Donald Weilerstein, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. 

An avid educator, Maile taught violin and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Yellow Barn’s Young Artist Program, Orford Musique, Olympic Music Festival, and Center Stage Strings. Maile and the Telegraph Quartet currently teach at the University of Michigan, where they are the Quartet-in-Residence. Maile studied with Itzhak Perlman and Cathy Cho at the Juilliard School and with Kathleen Winker at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Maile also received an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.