Stefanie Taylor is the principal violist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and violist for the orchestra’s Juke Box Quartet. She has performed regionally with the Craftsbury Chamber Players, Taconic Chamber Players, Vermont Virtuosi, Williams Chamber Players, the Manchester Music Festival, and Capital City Concerts. She has been principal violist of both Middlebury Opera and Green Mountain Opera.

During twenty years in New York, Stefanie performed regularly with the New York Philharmonic, as guest principal violist of the American Symphony, in ensembles including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and was assistant principal violist of the Long Island Philharmonic. She premiered several chamber works in venues including Merkin Hall, Roulette, Miller Theater, and performed live on WQXR.

A graduate of Indiana University and Stony Brook University, Stefanie studied violin with Miriam Fried, viola with Caroline Levine. She held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Villa Musica (Germany), and Stony Brook University, where she was a member of the graduate string quartet.

Stefanie is a graduate of the School for Strings pedagogy program and has completed SAA training through violin Book 8. She teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at Berkshire Summer Music and was formerly on the faculty of the Bay View Festival. She is an Affiliate Artist at Middlebury College and at Vermont State University/Castleton