Torron Pfeffer

Torron Pfeffer, a recipient of the Jerome L Greene Fellowship, is a second-year viola graduate student at The Juilliard School where he studies with Cynthia Phelps and Paul Neubauer.  He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Juilliard in 2024 studying with Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. He is also a graduate of Juilliard’s Pre-College Division and attended the Juilliard Music Advancement Program (MAP).

Torron has performed in hundreds of chamber and orchestral programs and is the Associate Principal Viola for Symphony in C and a 2025 Teaching Fellow at Interlochen Center for the Arts.  Additionally, he is a regular performer with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Orchestra and Princeton Symphony.  Beyond classical music, Torron has participated in recording nearly a dozen film and TV scores, including the movie soundtracks for Barbie and Till, and TV scores for The Gilded Age, Only Murders in the Building and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Torron attended Interlochen Center for the Arts summer program for five years where he was awarded the Interlochen Payne Orchestral Scholarship. He studied at various summer institutes including Heifetz International Music Institute, Bowdoin, the Gingold International Music Festival and Sarasota Music Festival. At Heifetz he was selected to participate in the prestigious Ashkenasi/Kirshbaum Seminar and at the Music Academy of the West he was chosen as a Fellow for the highly selective String Quartet Seminar Program working directly with Richard O’Neill of the Takács Quartet.

While at Juilliard, Torron served as an orchestra and chamber mentor for students in the Pre-College Program and MAP, a funded program supporting and encouraging minority advancement in classical music. In 2024 he also served as a Section Leader for the Sphinx Performance Academy Historical Performance Program and in 2022 as a Chamber Coach and Private Lesson Instructor for the Lumina String Quartet Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians

Torron was part of 8 Minutes and 46 seconds, a musical memorial to George Floyd produced by Richard Young, founder of the Vermeer Quartet. He was selected as part of a Unity Orchestra performing an HBO Concert with the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay and appeared playing violin in an episode of the award-winning Netflix series, Jessica Jones.