Experience:
Laura has more than ten years of experience teaching all levels of violin and viola both in her private studio and through online lessons. She is on the precollege faculty at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, Pa.
Education:
Located:
Manhattan, NY
Laura is currently a student of Prof. Todd Phillips (Orion Quartet) in the Doctor of Musical Arts Program at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Born in Germany in 1987, Laura began her violin studies at the age of four and made her first public appearance only a year later. Having skipped two years in elementary and high school, she spent a semester at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa studying violin, chamber music and Chemistry. In 2006 Laura enrolled in the medical school of the Private University of Witten/Herdecke (Germany) where she graduated with a medical degree in May 2013. Meanwhile she earned an undergraduate degree in violin performance and pedagogy at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany under the tutelage of Prof. Yamei Yu. She recently graduated from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia with a Master’s of Music. Her teachers there were Helen Kwalwasser and Charles Parker. Laura has performed as a soloist and member of chamber ensembles and orchestras all over Europe, in the USA and in Japan. She was recently appointed as adjunct faculty and Artist in Residence at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance.
