Nicholas Szucs attended Manhattan School of Music and Montclair State University, where he studied with Burton Kaplan and Oscar Ravina. Other important teachers include Betty-Jean Hagen and John Forconi. In addition to being soloist with the Montclair State University Symphony, he also performed as concertmaster and soloist with the Congress of Strings festival orchestra in its final year (1989). He also performed as concertmaster and soloist for the Montclair Chamber Ensemble in the year of the orchestra’s inception (1990), and in 2003. Mr. Szucs has worked with symphonies all over the United States, including Dallas Opera, Shreveport Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Albany Symphony and Syracuse Symphony. He served as concertmaster for the Fort Smith Symphony, East Texas Symphony, Garland Symphony, and Monmouth Symphony. In 2005 he participated in the Festival Orchestra in Jimena de la Frontera, Spain. Since the summer of 2006, Ni...