The Nancy Finch Wallace Chair

    Jacqueline Saed Wolborsky is Principal Second Violin of the North Carolina Symphony and Lecturer of Violin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was previously a member of the Charleston Symphony and Adjunct Professor at the College of Charleston. Featured solo appearances with NCS have included, among others, Beethoven's Triple Concerto in January of 2022; Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in 2021, in a performance to be included in the 2021/22 North Carolina Symphony Streaming Series; Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds in 2019, alongside Karen Strittmater Galvin; and works by Mozart, Kreisler, and J.S. Bach. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra and South Carolina Philharmonic, and was honored with the Russell Award at the Coleman International Chamber Music Competition.
    Wolborsky has performed for Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel in Chicago and, in 2001, for the Vice President of the United States in Washington, D.C. She has spent past summers at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in New York, at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute in Chicago, at Keshet Eilon in Israel, and at the Weathersfield Festival in Vermont.
    Wolborsky holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music. She has performed at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., as a co-founder of LACE (Living Arts Collective Ensemble), and with fellow NCS musicians in a trio setting. She has worked with members of the Tokyo, Cleveland, and Vermeer Quartets, and has toured with Joshua Bell, James Levine, and Mstislav Rostropovich.