Jacquelyn Schwandt
Assistant Professor of Viola, Northern Arizona University
Jacquelyn Schwandt is Assistant Professor of Viola at Northern Arizona University. She is Principal violist with the Flagstaff Symphony, and is an active member of the NAU Faculty Chamber Music Series.
She is an active clinician and performer and has taught at music camps, master classes and workshops in Arizona, Oregon, Oklahoma, Colorado, and South Dakota. As a performer Schwandt was an invited recitalist at the 36th International Viola Congress in Tempe, AZ and in 2007 she performed Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante with the Newport Symphony Orchestra in Newport, Oregon. In 2008 she was a featured soloist with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra in Denver, CO. Dr. Schwandt has been a violist in the Eugene Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and Wichita Symphony; assistant principal viola in the Spoleto USA and Italy Festival Orchestras, and Principal viola of The Classic Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. Additionally, Dr. Schwandt has participated in the Red Rocks Chamber Music Festival, Oregon Festival of American Music, the Ernst Bloch Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Chamber Music at the Barn in Wichita, Kansas, National Repertory Orchestra, and The Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City.
Currently, Schwandt is the President of the Arizona Chapter of the American Viola Society. Dr. Schwandt received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Oregon, her Master of Music degree from Wichita State University, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Southern Methodist University. She has studied viola with Leslie Straka, William Magers, Catherine Consiglio, Ellen Rose, Eiji Ikeda and Yitzak Schotten