Jude Ziliak performs internationally on historical forms of the violin. Recent highlights include the Magdeburg Telemann Festspiele with Tempeste di Mare; concertmaster with American Bach Soloists and the Blue Hill Bach Festival; guest director of Arcadia Players; the English Concert; Les Arts Florissants; a concert of music from Vermeer’s lifetime at the National Gallery of Art with Sonnambula; and solo recitals at Columbia University. Sonnambula's first violinist since 2013, he is a faculty member at Special Music School (P.S. 859), where he trains gifted young string players and directs the Baroque Ensemble, 2023 recipient of a Renaissance Studies Association grant for innovative high school teaching in the field of Renaissance studies. Ziliak holds a master’s from Rice and studied at Juilliard with Monica Huggett and Cynthia Roberts. In the summer, he is the program director for the Clarion Collegium Week workshop in New York City.