Joachim Woitun is a native of Friesing, Germany and studied cello at The Rochard Strauss Conservatory and The State University of Music in Munich. In 1987 he moved to the US to continue his studies, earning music degrees from Eastern Washington University and Queens College, C. U. N. Y. Sine moving to New York in 1990, he has given numerous sonata and chamber music performances in the tri-state area and beyond. Mr. Woitun co-directs the String Department at the Packer Collegiate Institite, and he teaches at the Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan.