Born in Oxford, England, Ronan Lefkowitz joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1976. He is a graduate of Brookline High School and Harvard College. His most notable teachers included Gerald Gelbloom, Max Rostal, Louise Vosgerchian, Joseph Silverstein, and Szymon Goldberg. While in high school, he was concertmaster of and a frequent soloist with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (GBYSO). He was also concertmaster of the International Youth Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. In 1972, Mr. Lefkowitz won the Gingold-Silverstein Prize at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he now coaches chamber music. In 1984 he helped establish and endow the Gerald Gelbloom Fellowship for a student of violin at the Tanglewood Music Center. Also in 1984 he was featured on the PBS television program “Evening at Pops” as a soloist with three of his Boston Symphony colleagues in a performance of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins. In 1986 Mr. Lefkowitz joined the contemporary music group Collage. That summer he performed the American premiere of Witold Lutoslawski’s Chain 2 for violin and chamber orchestra as part of the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood. He performed the piece again in its Boston Symphony premiere under the composer’s direction in October 1990. In spring 1988, he was one of five Boston Symphony members, all Greater Boston Youth Symphony alumni, to take part as soloist in the world premiere of Peter Lieberson’s Gesar Legend, composed for GBYSO. Most recently, Mr. Lefkowitz has been involved with the Terezín Chamber Music Foundation, directed by BSO colleague Mark Ludwig, which seeks to find, perform, and record music written in the early 1940s by such composers as Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, Viktor Ullmann, and Pavel Haas during their internment at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. He is a founding member of the Hawthorne String Quartet.