Lindsey Strand-Polyak is active in the Early Music community as a scholar and violinist. She received her PhD/MM in both Musicology and Violin Performance from UCLA in 2013. Her dissertation, entitled “The Virtuoso's Idiom: Spectacularity and the Seventeenth-Century Violin Sonata,” was written as an advisee of baroque cellist and scholar Elisabeth LeGuin. Dr. Strand-Polyak has also presented lecture-recitals at numerous conferences in both the US and Canada. While at UCLA, she worked to re-establish the UCLA Early Music Ensemble in 2009 after a 20-year hiatus, and has served in alternating roles as its Managing Director and Director since 2011. She has performed on both baroque violin and viola with groups such as Pacific MusicWorks, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Tesserae. Dr. Strand-Polyak has participated in masterclasses with artists including Elizabeth Blumenstock, Stanley Ritchie, Jeanne Lamon, and Robert Mealy, and is an alumna of baroque academies such as Tafelmusik Summer Institute, Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, and the American Bach Soloists Academy.

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