MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Concerto / 2 Romances

Joseph Swensen was born in 1960 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and grew up in Spring Valley, New York, Pearl River, New York and Harlem, New York City. His mother was Japanese-American and his father Norwegian-American. He studied music at the Juilliard School, where his teachers included Dorothy DeLay.