American violinist Melissa White has enchanted audiences around the world as both a soloist and chamber musician. A first prize winner of the Sphinx Competition, Ms. White has received critical acclaim for solo performances with many of America’s leading symphony orchestras, including those of Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Colorado, as well as the Boston Pops. Internationally she has appeared as soloist with the Colombian Youth Orchestra in South America, the Philharmonia Dolnoslaska in Poland and, most recently, in recital in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Ms. White’s passion for chamber music has also grown into a love for ensemble playing—she has recently begun sharing the stage as a guest with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has also served as interim concertmaster with the Louisville Orchestra, with whom she has also performed as a featured soloist.

Ms. White holds performance degrees from both the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was the student of Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. Her current instrument, “Matilda,” was commissioned as part of a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant in 2014 by the American violin maker Ryan Soltis. When she doesn’t have a violin in her hands, Ms. White is an advanced practitioner of Bikram Yoga and the co-founder and artistic director of Intermission, a new program that combines music and yoga.