Founder
Violinist and violist Regan Eckstein attended New England Conservatory of Music where she studied violin with Eric Rosenblith and was a member of the scholarship string quartet under the tutelage of Rudolf Kolisch formerly first violinist with the famed Kolisch Quartet. Subsequently, she studied with Ruggiero Ricci at Indiana University, followed by three years of private study with Shmuel Ashkenasi, first violin of the Vermeer Quartet.
An ardent chamber musician, Eckstein was for some years a member of the Atlanta Virtuosi, a group of thirteen musicians who performed in the U.S., Mexico, Austria, Germany, Spain and Italy. She has also maintained a private music studio for a number of years and served as adjunct instructor in violin and viola at Purdue University. Eckstein has also done freelance work in Atlanta and around Indiana. For the past ten years, she has played regularly with the Fort Wayne Symphony. She was also the co-concert master for the Lafayette Symphony for 10 years.
Violinist and violist Regan Eckstein attended New England Conservatory of Music where she studied violin with Eric Rosenblith and was a member of the scholarship string quartet under the tutelage of Rudolf Kolisch formerly first violinist with the famed Kolisch Quartet. Subsequently, she studied with Ruggiero Ricci at Indiana University, followed by three years of private study with Shmuel Ashkenasi, first violin of the Vermeer Quartet.
An ardent chamber musician, Eckstein was for some years a member of the Atlanta Virtuosi, a group of thirteen musicians who performed in the U.S., Mexico, Austria, Germany, Spain and Italy. She has also maintained a private music studio for a number of years and served as adjunct instructor in violin and viola at Purdue University. Eckstein has also done freelance work in Atlanta and around Indiana. For the past ten years, she has played regularly with the Fort Wayne Symphony. She was also the co-concert master for the Lafayette Symphony for 10 years.
Director of Operations
Carol Letcher has been a West Lafayette resident for over 20 years.
Originally from Colorado, she received her Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Colorado Boulder, Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri Kansas City, and worked on a Doctor of Arts in Voice at the University of Northern Colorado.
She is currently a music teacher with the West Lafayette School Corporation and has taught previously in Colorado and Kansas, in addition to church music positions in Valparaiso, Indiana, California, Illinois and the Kansas City area.
Carol Letcher has been a West Lafayette resident for over 20 years.
Originally from Colorado, she received her Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Colorado Boulder, Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri Kansas City, and worked on a Doctor of Arts in Voice at the University of Northern Colorado.
She is currently a music teacher with the West Lafayette School Corporation and has taught previously in Colorado and Kansas, in addition to church music positions in Valparaiso, Indiana, California, Illinois and the Kansas City area.
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