Rebekah Carlson is a Suzuki violin and viola teacher and freelance violinist. She has been a section violinist for the North Carolina Opera Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet, the Durham Choral Society, and the NC Master Chorale, and has played with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and the Greensboro Symphony. Rebekah is also an active chamber music performer, presenting concerts at Duke University in their faculty series, as well as several area venues. Rebekah studied with Lee Joiner and holds a degree in violin performance from Wheaton College (IL). While at Wheaton, she won the conservatory concerto competition and participated in master classes with the Emerson String Quartet, Stephen Clapp, Kevin Lawrence, Peter Slowik and Rachel Barton Pine. She is a passionate music educator, and loves teaching her wonderful students! She has studied pedagogy with Nancy Lokken, Ann Montzka Smelser, Charles Krigbaum, Daniel Gee Cordova, Pat D’Ercole, Joanne Bath, Libby Armour, Stevie Sandven, James Hutchins, and Sharon Miller. Rebekah has participated in the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at the Juilliard School and is also a certified Music Together teacher. She has taught at the NC Suzuki State-wide Play-in and is a regular clinician at several regional workshops. Rebekah is the co-founder and co-director of STEP (Suzuki Talent Education of the Piedmont) and arranges frequent local performance opportunities for her students; recent performances have included performing at the Governor’s Mansion Christmas Open House and playing the National Anthem for the Greensboro Grasshoppers. She has also taken her students on performance tours to Austria, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. Her students have held leadership positions in their school orchestras, N.C. All-State, Western Regional and All-County Orchestras, the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestras, and the Winston Salem Youth Orchestras. Rebekah also writes music history curriculum, with four books published thus far on Schumann, Mozart, Joplin, and Debussy. She is the proud Suzuki parent of a violinist and a cellist and loves hiking, reading, and traveling with her family.