Alfred Abel is a founding member of the ICO and Associate Principal Second Violin. He is longtime concertmaster of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and the Kokomo Symphony Orchestra and has served as guest concertmaster for area orchestras including the Danville (IL), Owensboro (KY), Marion (IN), Muncie (IN), Columbus (IN) Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Indiana; and associate concertmaster for Sinfonia da Camera (IL), Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Anderson Symphony. He was recognized in a documentary at Ball State University in 2010 as one of Indiana’s 13 “Hidden Treasures” for his musical contributions.

An avid chamber musician, Alfred performs regularly with his wife, Colette, and children, Benjamin and Clara, in the Abel Family Quartet. He has also performed twice-yearly recitals with piano collaborator Dr. Diane Earle as Visiting Artist at Kentucky Wesleyan College since 2008.

He teaches violin and viola at Wabash College, where he is Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra. He also teaches violin/viola studio class at Purdue University.

Hobbies include doing Sudokus, reading trashy detective novels and French literature, and growing hybrid tea roses, peonies, irises, daylilies and assorted native Indiana weeds.