Louise Zeitlin
BM, Eastman School of Music
MM, Yale University

Louise Zeitlin's teaching career encompasses all ages and levels from young children to college music majors. Her former students have attended some of America's finest music schools, including the Juilliard School, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University. In addition to teaching children, she is lecturer in viola at Baldwin-Wallace College.

Zeitlin, who has studied with Heidi Castleman, Jesse Levine, and the Tokyo Quartet, has held teaching positions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Carleton College, and the MacPhail Center for the Arts, among others. During the summer, she teaches and performs at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. She is principal viola with the Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival and has played principal viola with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Past orchestral performances include concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera, the Chicago String Ensemble and the Chicago Opera Theatre.

Zeitlin is a founding member and past president of the Ohio Viola Society and is the secretary of the American Viola Society. She lives in Oberlin with her husband, James Howsmon, and their two children.

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