Jacquelyn Schwandt
Viola/Violin/Chamber Music
Jacquelyn.Schwandt@nau.edu
(928)
523-0230
Building 37, Room 140
Jacquelyn Schwandtis Assistant Professor of Viola at Northern Arizona University. 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 is Principal violist with the Flagstaff Symphony, and is an active member of the NAU Faculty Chamber Music Series.
Currently, Dr. Schwandt is the President of the Arizona Chapter of the American Viola Society. She is an active clinician and performer and has taught at music camps and master classes in Arizona, Oregon, Oklahoma, Colorado, and South Dakota. In 2007 she performed Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante with the Newport Symphony Orchestra in Newport, Oregon. 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 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. She has studied viola with Leslie Straka, William Magers, Ellen Rose, Catherine Consiglio, Eiji Ikeda and Yitzak Schotten.