Gallery
The International Music Institute with my co-faculty members violinist and professor Michel Zaitzeff and Jean Montes (Professor of Music, Loyola University, New Orleans and director of the International Music Institute)
With Georg Hammon, principal viola of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and violist in the Aron Quartet, and Maestro Phillipe Entremont
Pianist Svetlana Smolina, me and Jeff Patnaude after a Virtuosi@Grace performance
Viola Intensive Program (VIP) Session 1, 2024
Ben Riley, retired cellist (Air Force Strolling Strings) and son of Maurice Riley who wrote The History of the Viola, and his wife Carolyn
With Sheila Brown at Violapalooza at James Madison University (Jan. 18, 2025)
Being coached in boxing by James VanDemark at The International Music Institute, New Orleans
L to R: My son Robbie, Me, Betty and Ralph Matesky, Samuel Applebaum, Ann Slovin : peeking out / founder of Opus Cruises, and Bedie Kaplan
With Robert Cafaro, cellist, after Virtuosi@Grace chamber music performance
Visit to James Madison University Violapalooza
Myself with Sal Parillo, Development Manager of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and Linda Dyer, Board Member of the Virginia Governor's School of the Arts
More Virtuosi@Grace with (L to R) Robert Cafaro (Philadephia Orchestra), Carol Gimbel (Soloist and Recording Artist, NYC), Hsin Ching (Primrose Competition 2024) and Akemi Takeyama (Professor of Violin, Shenandoah Conservatory)
Virginia String Teachers Association Viola Day Workshop in Williamsburg, VA
Having fun at the post-concert reception of the Tidewater Intergenerational Orchestra celebrating with guest flute soloist Onorio Zaralli
My adorable student Sophia Renninger at my home studio in Williamsburg, Virginia, demonstrating her great position
Christine Rutledge, me, former students Wilhemina Grow and Megan Gray (teaching assistant to Christine Rutledge) at the University of Iowa School of Music after teaching my masterclass
This is how I know where I have to be. LOL!
Teaching at my home studio in Williamsburg, Virginia
(L to R) Dr. Lee Richie, the son of my Oberlin College violin teacher, me, and my son Paul (trumpet) after our performance
Violinist / Violist Eric Salazar, who calls me "his Bratsche Mentor"
American String Teachers Association in Nashville, TN Top Row (L to R) Nusheen Farahani (Virginia), Cora Cooper (Kansas), myself, and Christine Rutledge (Iowa) Bottom Row (L to R) my daughter, cellist Margie Thomas (New Jersey), and Charles Castleman (retired string chairman, Eastman School of Music, current director of the Stamps Program at University of Miami Frost School of Music)
After our chamber music concert at Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia with Steve Custer (retired, Los Angeles Philharmonic), Svetlana Smolina (pianist), me, Kenneth Sarch (violinist and professor)
With my student Fritz Bernardin from when I was invited to teach at the National Summer Orchestra Program in Haiti
With violist and professor Amadi Azikiwe after my masterclass at James Madison University
With performers after Svetlana Smolina's piano recital in Virginia
Wanchi Huang (violin professor at James Madison University, me and my husband Tom after he presented a violin masterclass at James Madison University
Getting ready for my rehearsal at the Brito Theater, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic
With the viola section of the Symphonicity Orchestra after my solo performance of Berlioz, Harold in Italy
Just another day rallying my students -- at Spring Valley High School Chamber Music Institute
Me and the Spring Valley High School Chamber Music Institute Faculty
Me, my violin student Anne Marie Pocklembo, my husband Thomas Lindsay and our daughter Margie Thomas after Anne Marie's recital
With performers Natalia Vilchis (cello), Hsin Ching (viola), Luke Wedge (violin, Director of the Air Force Strolling Strings) and Akemi Takayama (violin, professor, Shenandoah Conservatory) after Virtuosi@Grace performance.
Me and pianist Svetlana Smolina
With two of my viola students from Haiti and their husbands