Department of Music

Becca Kasdan is currently a Resident Musician at Community MusicWorks, violin faculty at New England Conservatory Expanded Education, and a Teaching Associate at Brown University in Providence, RI. Becca received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she studied with Meg Freivogel of the Jupiter String Quartet and served as the Violin Teaching Assistant. Previously, Dr. Kasdan studied with Violaine Melancon at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where she received her MM and BM in Violin Performance.

Deeply passionate about chamber music, Becca has worked closely with members of the Juilliard, Jupiter, Emerson, Chiara, Orion, Ying, Brentano, and Borromeo String Quartets among others. She has performed for several distinguished artists including Midori Goto, Bruno Eicher (Assistant Concertmaster MET), Axel Strauss, and Stefan Milenkovich. Becca has also been a Violin Fellow at several summer music festivals including the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and the Next Festival of Emerging Artists. As a chamber musician and orchestral player, she has collaborated with many esteemed musicians including David Ying, Michael Kannen, Yael Weiss, Benjamin Zander, David Zinman, and Leon Fleischer.

A passionate and dedicated teacher, Becca has presented masterclasses at the Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Workshop, American String Teacher Association’s National Conference, Tonebase Violin, Virginia Tech, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, DePauw University School of Music, and the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Previously, Becca was a Core Teaching Artist with Apollo’s Fire- the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra in Matteson, IL and Coordinator and Violin Instructor for the Illinois Community Music Academy.

For more information on upcoming events/concerts, teaching, and community engagement, please follow at beccakasdanviolin.com