Stefanie Taylor

Viola

Stefanie Taylor is the assistant principal violist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and violist for the orchestra’s Juke Box Quartet. She has been principal violist and principal second violin of Middlebury Opera and principal violist for Green Mountain Opera and leads the Champlain Philharmonic as concertmaster. She has performed with the Craftsbury Chamber Players, Taconic Chamber Players, Vermont Virtuosi, Williams Chamber Players, the Manchester Music Festival, and Capital City Concerts.

During twenty years in New York, Stefanie performed regularly with the New York Philharmonic, as guest principal violist of the American Symphony, in ensembles including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and was assistant principal violist of the Long Island Philharmonic. She premiered several chamber works in venues including Merkin Hall, Roulette, Miller Theater, and performed live on WQXR.   

Stefanie teaches violin and viola at the Middlebury Community Music Center, is Artistic Director of the Manchester and the Mountains Chamber Music Workshop and is on the faculty of Berkshire Summer Music. She completed Suzuki teacher training at the School for Strings in New York.        

A graduate of Indiana University and Stony Brook University, Stefanie studied violin with Miriam Fried, viola with Caroline Levine, and chamber music with Julius Levine, Leonard Hokanson, and Timothy Eddy. She held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Villa Musica (Germany), and Stony Brook University, where she was a member of the graduate string quartet.