Photo: Jan Swinkels

Based in the Netherlands, Henk Guittart is the founding violist of the Schoenberg Quartet, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The quartet has made 25 recordings, and has filmed the recording of the eight major works for strings by Arnold Schoenberg. Head of the chamber music department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague from 1978 to 1984, Guittart was appointed conductor at the Codarts Rotterdam Academy of Music in 1990, and he has been a guest conductor or guest professor at academies and universities in Budapest, Princeton, Los Angeles, Dresden, The Hague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Moscow, and Stanford.