Linda Wilson
Second Violin
MEMBER SINCE 1985
EDUCATION University of California, Santa Barbara
FUN FACT The bow I play with was owned by Jascha Heifetz and bought out of his estate sale.
HOBBIES Hiking, Dancing, Reading, Keeping up with 6 kids, 10 grand-kids, and 5 great-grandsons (about to be SIX!)
BIOGRAPHY
Linda Wilson attended the American Congress of Strings as a senior in high school and toured 10 European countries with the American Community Orchestra while still an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She participated in three tours of Italy and Austria with the MountainTop Strings, a group of string students from Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Linda taught for two years in the Westminster school district and is now in her eleventh year with the Arrowhead Arts Association teaching strings to 4th-8th graders in the Rim school district of Lake Arrowhead. She has taught violin and viola privately for 58 years.
Linda is currently in her 46th year with the Riverside Philharmonic and 36th year with the San Bernardino Symphony.