Rebecca Henry holds The Scott Bendann Chair in Classical Music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD, where she has been on the faculty for over thirty years. As Chair of the Peabody Preparatory String Department, she guided the development of one of the most comprehensive pre-college string programs in the country and is now focusing on teaching violin and viola, performing, and pedagogy projects. She directs the Peabody Pre-Conservatory Violin Program, which was founded with funding from the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation and is inspiring studio teachers to diversify their repertoire. In the Peabody Conservatory she helped create the Performance/Pedagogy Master’s Degree and teaches Violin Pedagogy, a series of Pedagogy Master Classes and Teacher Workshops, and created a program that pairs Conservatory pedagogy students with Preparatory student in need.

Ms. Henry is a founding member of the Kegelstatt Trio and performs in faculty chamber ensembles and with the Washington Chamber Orchestra. She teaches String Pedagogy at the University of Maryland and for many years returned to her alma mater and taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Summer String Academy and Teacher’s Retreat for Professional Violinists and Violists.

She is co-founder of the website ViolinPractice.com, which offers over a thousand of videos in support of the sequential development and improvement of flexible motion in playing from the beginning to advanced levels. Ms. Henry has presented master classes and workshops throughout U.S and in Canada, Scotland, Spain and Turkey, does consulting work for string studios and schools, co-edited two series of contemporary music for violin ensembles, and was featured in STRAD Magazine. She has presented pedagogy sessions at national conferences for ASTA, MTNA and SAA, and is currently an advisor on vibrato development for The Royal Conservatory’s upcoming curriculum. Her students have won a variety of regional and national competitions, and her former students are innovating, performing and teaching around the world.