I am a violinist, violist and sometime bodhrán player and pianist.  I’ve played in a variety of settings but prefer playing with chamber groups and traditional-music bands.  While growing up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, I studied violin with Sigrid Gullickson at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, took piano lessons from Rita Shur and was a member of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra for five years.

At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied viola with David Yang, chamber music performance with the Daedalus Quartet, was a member of the Penn Chamber Music Society for four years, and was the assistant principal violist in the Penn Symphony Orchestra.  I also participated in the Marion Anderson and Bessie and Harry Bodek fellowship solo performance program.  Through my former synagogue, Kol Tzedek, I was a fiddle player in the Klezmer All-Stars.

In 2008, I trained as a Suzuki teacher with Carrie Reuning-Hummel at the Ithaca College Suzuki Institute, and now teach violin and viola at the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute. In 2011, I received violin/viola Book 2 training at the Chicago Suzuki Institute. At HPSI, I am a member of the violin and viola faculties and am also the director of community outreach programming.

I previously taught with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Progressions program and Symphony in C’s school outreach programs in Camden, NJ.

Keep an eye out for Bill Ricchini‘s upcoming album, on which I played violin and viola!