As a member of Duo Sonidos with guitarist Adam Levin, Knuth has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Canary Islands, and South America. During the fall of 2024, he will be a visiting professor of violin at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil. He joined the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in 2024 as acting principal second violin.

Knuth has taken the role of assistant concertmaster of the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, and associate concertmaster of the vibrant Boston-based chamber orchestra Discovery Ensemble. He is a member of the esteemed New York City-based new music group Ensemble Signal and long standing member of the Boston Philharmonic.

As Duo Sonidos, Knuth and Levin released their most recent album, "Duo Sonidos: Wild Dance," on the NAXOS label, which immediately rose to number three on the Billboard classical music charts. The duo was awarded First Prize at the 2010 Luys Milan International Chamber Music Competition in Valencia, Spain, and BBC Music Magazine chose the debut album, "Duo Sonidos," as the BBC Top Choice U.S. Release Album. Knuth is a Grammy Recording Academy voting member. Current projects include a planned record release of original new works commissioned by the duo for violin and guitar by internationally celebrated Brazilian composers Sergio Assad, Clarice Assad, João Luiz, Marco Pereira, and Egberto Gismonti.

Knuth’s concerts in the U.S. have included a debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall; performances in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Strathmore Center, Austin Chamber Music Center, Guitar Foundation of American International Festival, National Gallery of Art, University of Miami Frost School of Music, Fundacao Oscar Americano São Paulo, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Harvard Sanders Theater, Boston WGBH radio, Chicago WFMT radio, WCNY radio, Austin Classical Guitar, NPR radio, and Mayne Stage Chicago; guest solo appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston International Guitarfest; and ensemble work with Jacksonville Symphony, Discovery Ensemble, Signal Ensemble, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Harvard Group for New Music, IMPULS Festival Austria, June in Buffalo Festival, Big Ears Festival, and the Ojai Festival. Special projects have included collaborations with Sergio Assad, Clarice Assad, Joao Luiz, Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho, Salvador Brotons, Eduardo Morales-Caso, Phillip Glass, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Lukas Foss, Norah Jones, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, Goldfrapp, David Byrne, Jon Brion, Bright Eyes, and the Goo Goo Dolls.

Knuth holds an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied violin with Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo Quartet; a Fulbright certificate for studies in Austria with Ernst Kovacic at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts; and a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, where he was a student of Lynn Blakeslee.

Education

• M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
• B.M., Eastman School of Music