Profile
Stacy Matthews
Violinist Stacy Matthews has been a member of the Richmond Symphony since 2002. She attended the Eastman School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she received both her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees with teacher William Preucil. Her other mentors include Camilla Wicks, Kathleen Winkler, Linda Case, and Sandy Reuning.
In 2000, she began a fellowship with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. During her time there she served as concertmaster under conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Stacy spent many summers out west playing in the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho and the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder. Previous orchestra work brought her to the Mainly Mozart Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Santo Domingo Music Festival, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Stacy grew up in Ithaca, NY, where she developed an affinity for waterfalls, coffee, farmers markets, and schnauzers.