About me

I am a native of New England, born in New London and raised in Connecticut and New Hampshire. As a teenager I attended the New England Conservatory Extension Division where I was a pupil of Robert W. Eshbach and Eric Rosenblith. I was a member of Ben Zander’s NEC Youth Chamber Orchestra for five years and took part in YCO’s historic tour of Russia and Rumania in 1982. During high school I attended Yellow Barn Music Festival for two summers. It was at Yellow Barn that I was truly bitten by the violin bug and decided to pursue music as a career!

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 ten years and have served as Concertmaster of the Walt Disney World Orchestra since 1995.

I am married to oboist Aaron Hilbun and have four delightful cats: Hal, Poko, Chassis, and Maggie.

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Lisa Ferrigno, Performer and Teacher