Lalia Mangione

Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lalia’s music making has taken her across the United States and as far away as Italy, Russia, and Lithuania. She has been concerto soloist with orchestras playing works by Lalo and Sibelius, and holds solo performance awards from the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation and the Music Teachers National Association. As an orchestral musician, Lalia has been a member of the Winston-Salem Symphony, Greensboro Opera, Gate City Camerata, and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.

Lalia has taught private lessons through music schools and her own private studio for over a decade. While in California Lalia was also the Strings Teacher for the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara and taught through the Santa Barbara Symphony’s education programs iCAN and BRAVO!.

Lalia attended summer festivals including Meadowmount, Credo Music, and the Eastern Music Festival, where she was awarded a fellowship, performed with the faculty orchestra under the baton of Maestro Gerry Schwarz, and played in a chamber ensemble with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Lalia holds a Master of Music in Violin Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied under Marjorie Bagley and held a graduate assistantship as a member of the Graduate String Quartet. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance from Westmont College in California. Currently, Lalia works as the Violinist & Community Manager for Renovare Music in Cleveland, OH.

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