I have a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where I studied with Sylvia Rosenberg and Zvi Zeitlin. During my Eastman summer breaks I attended Charlie Castleman’s Quartet Program and the Music Academy of the West. For two summers I was a member of the Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra at the Heidelberg Castle Opera Festival in Germany.
Immediately after graduating from college I became a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. After four years with RPO I won a position as the 3rd chair 1st violinist of the Florida Symphony Orchestra. The FSO went out of business one year after I joined, but I remained in Florida and became the first Concertmaster of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. I left OPO ten years later and went back to school, completing a Master of Music degree at Florida State University in 2005.
I have been Concertmaster of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne, Florida for twelve years and have served as Concertmaster of the Walt Disney World Orchestra since 1995.
My current teaching positions include the Brattleboro Music Center, where I am Coordinator of the Music in the Schools program, conductor of Prima Orchestra, and a private teacher. I am also a member of the faculty of The Putney School where I coach the Putney School Orchestra violinists and give lessons.
My husband, oboist Aaron Hilbun, and I have homes in Brattleboro, Vermont and Winter Park, Florida.