Martha Walvoord · violin

Dr. Martha Walvoord, Assistant Professor of Violin at UT Arlington, is an active educator, chamber musician, and soloist. Recent solo appearances have taken her to China, Hong Kong, Spain, and across the US including her performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Quingdao Symphony Orchestra. Walvoord is committed to the promotion of new music. She has commissioned, assisted, recorded, and premiered works by composers George Chave, Michael Daugherty, David Lefkowitz, and Matthew Tommasini. This spring, Centaur Records released Walvoord’s recording American Prospectives: Works for Violin by Matthew Tommasini.

Originally from Michigan, Walvoord was Concertmaster of the West Shore Symphony Orchestra. She is a founding member of the Lyric Piano Trio and has performed chamber music with members of the Boston, Detroit, Dallas, and Fort Worth Symphonies. As an educator, Walvoord is the TexASTA 2010 Marjorie Keller Young Teacher of the Year award recipient. She maintains a full and active private and university studio of award- and competition-winning students and is much in demand as a clinician, adjudicator and presenter. Walvoord earned her DMA and MM at the University of Michigan and her BM at Rice University.