Originally from Boston, I hold the post of viola second soloist in the Opera Orchestra National of Montpellier (France), and teach viola and violin. I have also worked as solo violist with the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, academist with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and tutti violist with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. I studied with former Berlin Philharmonic principal violist Wilfried Strehle at the Universität der Künste Berlin and with Misha Amory at The Juilliard School. I earned my bachelor of science degree at Tufts University with a major in biopsychology and a minor in music, studying viola with Rictor Noren. I play on a 2010 Reto Gasser viola.