Valerie Prebys Arsenault has two favorite musical activities: teaching the violin and playing Baroque music. She is the Music Director of the Tallahassee Bach Parley. Since 2002 she has maintained a thriving private violin studio teaching students of all ages at Cavatina Music Studios in Tallahassee. Dr. Arsenault is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University, where she directs the Baroque Ensemble, on period instruments, and has taught violin and directed the Irish Ensemble. She is a member of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, a principal player and soloist with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, and has performed and recorded with the Apollo Ensemble in New York and Apollo’s Fire in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Arsenault earned a Bachelor of Music degree in violin at the New England Conservatory, a Master of Music in violin pedagogy and Baroque violin at the Indiana University School of Music’s Early Music Institute, and earned her Doctorate in music at the Florida State University College of Music.
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