Jack Kessler is a Miami-born violist whose international career reflects a strong commitment to cultural memory and civic engagement. He has toured Ernest Bloch’s Fourth String Quartet across Central Europe, appeared at the Colorado Music Festival and Verbier Festival Academy, and performed with Jeremy Denk, Noah Bendix-Balgley, and the Perlman Music Program. His transcription of Ravel’s Don Quichotte à Dulcinée received an award from the Ravel Foundation and will be published.

At Curtis, Jack organized a program honoring Eastern European composers who perished in the Holocaust. He later performed in Awake in the Dark, exploring stories and survival under Nazism. A former New World Symphony fellow, he has also worked with Yale’s Oral History of American Music. Jack holds degrees from Yale and Curtis and has been under the tutelage of Ettore Causa, Roberto Díaz, Ed Gazouleas, and Michael Klotz. He is also an advocate for sustainable cities.