Field
of Study: Violin, Viola
Education: B.M.,
M.M., Performers Certificate, Eastman School of Music, studied
with Charles
Castleman.
Prizes:
Silver Medal in the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition
Biographical
Information: Ms. Bossert is on the faculty of Wellesley College, the Longy School of Music, and in the summer months, The Quartet Program and LyricaFest. Before the unprecedented age of forty, she prepared her students for positions in many wide ranging institutions such as the Boston, San Francisco, Portland, and New Haven Symphonies, Handel and Haydn Society, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Radio Orchestra, Helsinki and Santiago Philharmonics, Mikkeli Finnish Chamber Orchestra The Hausmann String Quartet, A Far Cry, Community Music Works, Barrage, The Quartet Program, Bermuda Music School and the Longy School of Music. They have been awarded top prizes in international and national competitions such as Young Concert Artists, Fischoff, Spohr, the Miami String Quartet Competition and the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA).
Ms. Bossert has appeared in collaboration with Elmar Oliveira, Joseph Silverstein, Paul Neubauer, Kim Kashkashian, David Jolley, Joseph Robinson and with ensembles such as the Muir String Quartet, Amelia, Raphael and Mirecourt Piano Trios. She has toured as a jazz violinist with David Amram and Chuck Mangione, and is a frequent guest artist, with The Cello Chix.
Upcoming season highlights, include chamber music and solo collaborations with Tchaikovsky Gold Medalist, cellist Segey Antonov, a world premier of a work by Marti Epstein with violist, Roger Tapping, performances of the Chausson Concerto, with pianist Yoko Kida and the Hausmann String Quartet, a teaching residency at the Eastman School of Music, and a series of master classes at Kent State University.
Professional
Affiliations: Faculty
member at Wellesley
College, the Longy School of Music, and in the summer months, The
Quartet Program
at Bucknell University and LyricaFest.
