Sachin Shukla

(He/him)

Sachin Shukla is a violist and teacher based in Boston. Performances have brought him across the US and Italy, and to the stages of Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and NEC’s Jordan Hall. He is a member of the symphony orchestras of New Bedford and Cape Cod, and has also performed with A Far Cry, the Albany Symphony, Portland Symphony, and as guest principal with the Plymouth Philharmonic, among others.

Sachin is on the violin and viola faculty of the Powers Music School in Belmont, MA, where he is also Director of Chamber Music. He has also taught with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Music Project, and the Community Music Center of Boston. Sachin is proud to have sent his students to success in auditions for BYSO, NEC Prep’s orchestras, and MMEA District and All State festivals.

Of the eclectic array of performance projects Sachin has had the privilege to participate in, some of his favorites include the Arpeggione Ensemble’s debut studio recording, Songs of a Seafarer, a private string quartet performance on the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death, and a film-in-concert performance on the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws, as well as several world premieres with the Albany Symphony. Sachin is also active in the world of historically-informed performance, having performed in ensembles led by Ingrid Matthews, Phoebe Carrai, and Aislinn Nosky. His festival appearances include Taconic Music, Heifetz, and Bowdoin.

Sachin is a graduate of Northwestern University and the New England Conservatory, where his principal teachers were Helen Callus and Mai Motobuchi. While at Northwestern, Sachin served as research assistant to noted labor economist Diane Schanzenbach and tax law scholar Ajay K. Mehrotra, and was a member of the executive board of Northwestern University’s Political Union for three years, culminating in a term as co-president. He has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Viola Society and has presented at the AVS and the Galant Schemata conferences.

If he is not playing a concert, driving to a concert, or teaching, Sachin is probably enjoying a Taiwanese oolong and listening to music with his cats, Onyx and Obsidian.