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Author: stephen
Posted: September 24, 2024
Performance, recording, private teaching, coaching, sectionals, and conductor.
Inspired by her Norwegian roots, Rachel has built a career around her love of music, performance, teaching, and Scandinavian tradition. She earned her BA in Music and Norwegian from St. Olaf College in 2007, followed by a master’s degree in Violin Performance and K-12 Teaching Certificate from Central Washington University in 2011. Rachel completed additional studies in classical violin at the Music Conservatory of the University of Stavanger, Norway, also using the opportunity to polish her Norwegian language skills. Although violin is her main jam, Rachel is an avid Hardanger Fiddler (the national folk instrument of Norway), an aspiring violist, an enthusiastic conductor, and a novice improv actor!
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Author: stephen
Posted: June 15, 2023
Violist Aleida Gehrels is a Seattle based performer and recording artist. A leading collaborator in cross-genre music, Aleida has toured with Macklemore and been featured live on KEXP radio with ODESZA and Jeremy Enigk. Other recent highlights include an appearance as wedding violist on the hit Netflix show Love Is Blind, as well as performances, tours, and recordings with Father John Misty, Perfume Genius, Abney Park, and many other international acts. In addition to her work in contemporary music, Aleida maintains an active career as a classical violist performing over 70 events yearly with the Arcobaleno String Quartet and freelancing in area symphonies.
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Author: stephen
Posted: December 23, 2021
Mary Manning, violinist and violist, is a Tacoma native and a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio where she studied both modern and baroque violin performance with Marilyn McDonald. She is longtime Principal Second Violin of Northwest Sinfonietta as well as the Vashon and Tacoma Opera Orchestras. She has served as guest concertmaster for Northwest Sinfonietta, Seattle Pro Musica, Olympia and Bremerton Symphonies. As a chamber music player she has been a member of the Regency, Tomasini, and Bravura String Quartets, the Chinook Trio, and the Puget Sound Consort. Her extensive work as a baroque orchestral musician has included membership in the Seattle, Portland, and Pacific Baroque Orchestras, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, and the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra. More unique work has included appearing, as a violinist, in a television commercial for Folgers coffee, recording a soundtrack for a silent movie (The Showoff, Turner Classic Movies) and playing backup for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on their 1995 tour. She taught violin at Pacific Lutheran University and was a member of the faculty string quartet from 2008-2019. Mary lives in Gig Harbor and is a private violin and viola teacher.
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Author: Kirsten James
Posted: August 31, 2017
Ms. Scarseth is a born and raised Seattleite who’s roots run deep in the local music community. She has studied with many great local teachers including Walter Schwede, Gennady Filimonov, Emily Bean, Svend Ronning, and Peter Kaman. Growing up she went through all the orchestras of the world renowned Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra program as well as attending the Marrowstone Music Festivals and MasterWorks Festivals during her summers. Ms. Scarseth received a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 2004. Since college she has created a strong and vibrant career both as a teacher and a performing artist. Ms. Scarseth is currently a member of Symphony Tacoma as well as concertmistress of the Seattle Rock Orchestra. She teaches private lessons on Violin, Viola and Cello as well as assists classroom teachers in the Edmonds School District. Ms. Scarseth has a very kind and nurturing teaching style and has worked with students who have learning disabilities, hearing impairment issues, and anxiety and depression. Her goal is always to do what is best for the student while working with their unique gifts and talents.
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