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Lindsay
Lindsay grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. She began playing the violin at age six and piano at age eight; she also enjoys playing the organ. In high school, Lindsay was selected to perform as a violinist in the Kansas All-State and District Orchestras. She also led her school's strolling strings program and played in string quartets. She performed in the Symphony Orchestra during her years at Brigham Young University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Music. She has found so much fulfillment in her career teaching students in elementary music education, elementary strings, and private lessons. She is also very involved in music service at church, and she enjoys performing with the 4 Elements String Quartet.
Catherine
Catherine began learning to play the violin during her first year of college. She continued learning on her own, or with anyone who would teach her at the time, until she began studying with Signe Gillum of the Utah Valley Orchestra. She then began teaching violin lessons and also playing with the Nebo Philharmonic Orchestra. Her favorite thing about playing the violin is the thrill of making music with others.
Shaylee
Shaylee began playing her violin in 2005. She added viola to her skills in 2017 along with many other instruments, adding to her piano basis. She graduated from Utah Valley University in Music Education in 2019. She has been teaching private piano, violin, and viola lessons since 2010. Shaylee became a part of the Nebo Youth Philharmonic in high school, as well as Chamber Orchestra. Her conductors chose her to play in the All-Star Utah Symphony concert in 2012. She worked at Mt. Nebo Middle School as the Orchestra Assistant 2022-2023. She taught the orchestras there for 4 months while the teacher was on leave. Shaylee has substitute taught several orchestras throughout Nebo and Provo School Districts. She currently works at American Preparatory Academy in Salem, Utah as the Orchestra Director. Shaylee is content when she and her sister can play or compose music together anywhere, anytime.
Carlie
Carlie has been playing her cello since 2010. After three years of orchestra she began cello lessons before her ninth grade year. She went through three years of junior high school orchestra attending orchestra festival at Utah State University with Diamond Fork Junior High Advanced Orchestra. At the start of high school, she joined the non-audition orchestra and became first chair gradually adding an orchestra to her schedule each year through auditions. By her senior year at Salem Hills High, Carlie had four classes of orchestra and an internship with Salem Junior High Orchestras. She changed cello teachers due to advancing out of lessons with her first teacher. Throughout high school, she went on recruiting fieldtrips, orchestra region/state festivals, orchestra tour to Las Vegas, Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and Grand Junction, Colorado receiving superior ratings. Carlie continued her education at Utah Valley University as a Cello Performance Major for four years receiving her Associates Degree with an Emphasis in Music and her Bachelors Degree in Cello Performance. She performed in performance classes, with UVU Symphony, in her Junior and Senior recitals, etc. Carlie has continued cello by teaching her own students, playing with Four Elements String Quartet, and being the Band/Orchestra Assistant at Payson Junior High. She has loved continuing to improve her skills as a cellist and sharing her love of music with others.
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