Edith Hines

Edith Hines, a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, will receive her DMA in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in May 2008. As a doctoral student she studied with David Perry; her former teachers include Donald Weilerstein and David Updegraff at the New England Conservatory (MM '04) and the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM '02, Young Artist Certificate '00). Edith is a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and has played several times with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. One of Edith's great musical interests is historical performance practice; she is an active baroque violinist, playing with the Madison Bach Musicians and Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble. Her thesis is on the Chiacona for violin and continuo by seventeenth-century Italian/Viennese violinist-composer Antonio Bertali. Edith gave her first performance of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas in July 2006 and hopes to give a repeat performance on March 21, 2010 (the 325th anniversary of Bach's birth!). As a Virtu scholar, Edith played a Paul Bailly violin and a Robert Shallock bow; she currently plays a 2001 violin by Oliver Radke, whom she met through the Virtu Foundation.