World Sonata Project | Violin

LINNAEA BROPHY
TENNESSEE

Linnaea Kathleen Brophy, a violinist from Memphis, TN, has a wide background as a soloist, orchestral player and chamber musician. A rising doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University, Linnaea joined the Arkansas Symphony in September of 2019 accepting a position as a member of one of their two resident string quartets, the Rockefeller String Quartet. While a student at SBU, under the auspices of the Emerson String Quartet, she formed Anello Quartet, a chamber group that was hailed by the Woodstock Times in 2018 as “beautifully tonal, coordinated and balanced.” A veteran of the violin concerto repertoire, Linnaea has performed twice as a soloist with the Nashville Symphony, and once each with the Memphis Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Stony Brook Symphony and the Vidin Sinfonietta in Vidin, Bulgaria. At age 14, she gave her solo debut recital at the Neue Gallery in Manhattan, leading to an appearance at Carnegie’s Zenkel Hall as a member of the Perlman Music Program Orchestra and concert tours throughout Israel, Italy and the Netherlands. During her studies at the New England Conservatory from 2010 – 2016, she frequently served as concertmaster of both the New England Conservatory Philharmonia and the New England Conservatory Symphony, playing under the baton of noted maestros such as Stephen Lord, Michael Tilson Thomas, Hugh Wolf and Joshua Weilerstein. She was also featured as a conductor/soloist in a performance of the violin concertino part in Handel’s Concerto Grosso with the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and gained further orchestral experience performing with A Far Cry, Boston’s only Grammy-nominated self-conducted chamber orchestra. Competitions she has won include 1st prizes at the Stony Brook University Concerto Competition; the Music Teachers National Association Competition, Junior Division; the Stony Brook University Concerto Competition; the Curb Concerto Competition in Nashville; the Alabama Symphony Concerto Competition; and the Concerto Soloist Award at the International Institute for Conductors in Vidin, Bulgaria. A familiar presence at summer festivals, Linnaea Brophy is an alumnus of the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, the Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse in Israel, the Holland International Music Sessions, Aspen Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program. Linnaea was coached by John Corigliano on a performance of his Red Violin Ciaconne at the California Summer Music Chamber Institute and has been guided by renowned artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Ivry Gitlis, Vadim Repin, and Roger Tapping. Linnaea holds a B.A. and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory where she was awarded a Merit Scholarship as a student of Donald Weilerstein and Lucy Chapman.

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