Natalie is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music where she received Bachelor of Music degree with a focus on Violin performance. She has studied privately with 2 former concertmasters of the NY Philharmonic including David Nadien and Glenn Dicterow and is a graduate with certification of the 2 year Violin Teacher Training course held at the School for Strings NY with a focus on the Suzuki Violin Method. Her teaching methods include a traditional approach as well as the Suzuki violin method for students ages 5-7. In addition to being skilled working with younger, beginner-Intermediate level students she is an accomplished violinist who has studied and performed works by Chausson, Brahms, Tartini, JS Bach, Prokofiev and Paganini and enjoys working with motivated advanced students. Her more advanced students have performed works by Handel, Rode, DeBeriot and V. Monti in recital. Natalie has performed with The Bronx Arts Ensemble, the Greenwich Symphony, the Springfield MA Symphony, the Queens Symphony and has performed at many Broadway shows including Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Grand Hotel, and Guys & Dolls. She has recorded in small string sections or quartets for Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, and for artists such as Billy Joel, Woody Allen and Gladys Knight. As a both concertmaster and member of a small violin section she has performed at shows for Dionne Warwick, Tony Bennett, Barry White and many others. Currently she performs with the Queens Symphony, Greenwich Symphony, Springfield MA Symphony and as concertmaster at an annual production of shows by Gilbert & Sullivan held at Riverside Church Theater. Natalie’s ensemble “The Capriccio Ensemble” performed at the wedding ceremony of Jerry Seinfeld, and more recently, Leila Roker. The ensemble has provided string quartets, trios, duos and solo violinists at concerts and events held at the Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the NY Historical Society, the Metropolitan Museum Theater, and at the Council on Foreign Relations, and at St. Joseph’s Seminary. The ensemble has performed at 1000’s of weddings in the NY, Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey as well as at upstate NY destination locations including the Hotel Sagamore and at Onteora Mountain House.
Natalie enjoys, hiking, gardening, cooking, travel to new places, and working out.
