Edith E. Hines

Edith Hines is a free-lance violinist in the Madison area, having recently received the DMA degree in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with David Perry as a Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow. A core member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, she also performs with the Madison, Elgin, and Green Bay Symphony Orchestras. Her activities as a chamber musician have taken her to the Norfolk, Yellow Barn, and Ravinia festivals, as well as on tours of the U. S. and Japan with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She particularly enjoys playing in church services but strives to honor God in more traditional concert settings as well.

Edith’s musical “first love” is Baroque repertoire, especially the music of J. S. Bach and nearly all composers of the seventeenth century. She studied under organist/harpsichordist John Chappell Stowe for her doctoral thesis research, which focused on seventeenth-century music and performance practice. As a baroque violinist, she is a member of the Madison Bach Musicians and the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and collaborates frequently with other period-instrument performers.

Edith’s previous violin teachers include Donald Weilerstein, David Updegraff, and Philip Mason. She holds undergraduate degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (in violin) and Case Western Reserve University (in mathematics) and a Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory.