LINDA LOUISE KISTLER

BAROQUE VIOLIN

Linda Louise Kistler maintains a busy concert schedule on both modern and baroque violin. She is concertmaster of the Savoy Company of Philadelphia, has appeared as soloist and concertmaster with the Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, and plays with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. As a baroque violinist, she is a founding member of Bethlehem Baroque and has performed with Le Triomphe de l’amour, Vox Ama Deus, Mélomanie, La Fiocco, and Voices Chorale. Linda has served on the faculty of Lehigh University, Cedar Crest College, Kutztown University, and Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Performing Arts. She maintains a private studio, is an artist-lecturer at Moravian University, and is on the faculty at Allentown’s Community Music School. Linda holds a B.Mus. from Oberlin College Conservatory and a M.Mus. from The Juilliard School. Her principal modern violin teachers were Andor Toth and Ivan Galamian, and she studied baroque violin with Nancy Wilson, Stanley Ritchie, and Robert Mealy.