Quintet. Concert venues include The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, The Soho House in West Hollywood, New York City, Chicago and Miami, The Crest Theater, The Carlsbad Music Festival, St Regis Hotel in Aspen, The Mind Body Green Revitalize Conference in Arizona, Unplug Meditation Studio, The Shine in Los Angeles and the Listening Room in NYC. Photography career Murray Hidary first began experimenting with photography during a cross-country road trip when he was 17 years old. He continued his travel and nature photography after his first semester at NYU, when at the age of 18, he took a leave of absence from college and spent 8 months riding a bicycle over 10,000 miles throughout Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. Hidary’s work has garnered wide praise, regularly appears in gallery and museum exhibitions, and is held in many private collections. His photography has appeared in myriad group shows including the San Francisco MoMA’s 15th Biennial Auction (San Francisco, CA), at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), and the San Diego Art Institute (San Diego, CA). Solo exhibitions of Hidary’s work have been featured at Atelier (New York, NY), Metro Gallery (Reno, NV), Karpeles Museum (Santa Barbara, CA), East Link Gallery (Shanghai, China), and the Nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia). Hidary’s work is also part of Art Pic’s collection of available pieces in Los Angeles, CA. Through Art Pic, Hidary’s photographs have been featured in movies and television including FOX’s House, CBS’s Numbers and NBC’s Joey, and films such as My Best Friend’s Girl and Unhitched. Hidary’s work also appeared in a Revlon advertisement and a Nikon television ad campaign featuring Ashton Kutcher, as well as the flagship Ralph Lauren store in New York, NY. In June, 2015, he won 1st Place, Still LIfe at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, International Photography Competition. Philanthropy and other pursuits Hidary is a member of several philanthropic boards. His continued love of music led him to ETHEL, a contemporary “postclassical” string quartet, for whom he now serves as chairman of the board. ETHEL has also performed original works by Murray Hidary including Spinning Still in 2006 and his Piano Quintet in 2015. Additionally, Hidary is a board member for Four Way Books, a publisher of poetry and short fiction by both emerging and established writers. In 2006 NYU awarded Murray Hidary the Distinguished Service Award. The text of