Violist Anton Boutkov, former member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra and guest musician with the Greenwich Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, currently resides in Springfield, Massachusetts. Anton began studying the viola at age seven under the instruction of violist and conductor Bernard Klinger. He went on to join Karen Ritcher’s viola studio at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory division, with whom he stayed for over a decade until coming up to Amherst, Massachusetts to study with violist Kathryn Lockwood.

Anton has played in master classes for violists Kim Kashkashian, Michael Tree, Amihai Grosz, James Dunham, Roger Tapping, as well as many others. He’s performed at venues including Madison Square Garden, Boston TD Garden, Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, The Symphony Space on 92nd Street, Chicago Symphony Center, The Sheen Center in Manhattan, Rockwood Music Hall, The Bowery Ballroom and many others. Some of the musicians Anton has collaborated with include vocalists Andrea Bocelli, Heather Headley, Chris Mann, violinist Caroline Campbell, singer-songwriter Paul Simon, and many others.