Biography of Musica Bella Orchestra member Lynn Ledbetter

Lynn Ledbetter, violin, a native of Austin, Texas, holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Houston, and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She spent nine years as a faculty member at Eastern New Mexico University, and then returned to the Austin area to serve on the faculty at Southwest Texas State University as Associate Professor of Violin. She moved to New York in the fall of 2002, where she was on sabbatical for the academic year 2002-2003, and then returned to Texas.     In addition, she has served on the music faculties of the College of Saint Scholastica and the University of Southern Mississippi. She has been affiliated in a principal or concertmaster capacity with the Santa Fe Symphony, the Orchestra of Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Opera, Serenata of Santa Fe, the Lubbock (Texas) Symphony, the Lubbock Chamber Orchestra, the Roswell (New Mexico) Symphony, the Buffalo Commons Chamber Music Society, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Bedford Springs Festival, the Duluth-Superior Symphony, and the Austin Symphony. For four years, she served as the concertmaster of the Rochester Symphony Orchestra and as first violin with the Rochester String Quartet.     Dr. Ledbetter has performed throughout the southwestern and midwestern United States as a solo-recitalist, and as a duo-recitalist in “The Paganini Duo,” in Arizona, Mississippi, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as Italy, Spain, Austria, Holland, England and Switzerland. Musica Bella concerts: March 23, 2003; June 21, 2003; October 24, 2004; January 22, 2006; June 17, 2006; June 18, 2006 This bio last updated May 3, 2006.