violin NRO Alumna 2019 Amelia Bailey is a master’s student at the Manhattan School of Music studying under Sheryl Staples. She began playing violin at age three and studied with members of the National Symphony Orchestra before college. In high school she was a fellow...
viola NRO Alumna 2019 and 2021 (assistant principal) Violist Silvana Ferrarin is from Southern California and combines her love of performing and teaching in her career. She received her Master of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and an Orchestral...
cello NRO Alumna 2021 and 2022 (co-principal) Jessamyn Fry grew up in the Bay Area of California where she began studying cello at age nine. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music after studying with Dr. Melissa Kraut and is pursuing her master’s...
violin NRO Alumna 2019, 2021 (assistant principal second) and 2022 Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Sarah began studying violin at age five, and made her solo debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at age 16. Sarah holds a Master of Music from Boston...
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT Education: Eastman School of Music, BM ’17 Louisiana State University, MM ’20 The Orchestra Now, 2020-2022 String Quartet Underwriters: Barbara Strauss and Paul Finkel String Quartet Musician’s Chair Underwriters: Barbara and...