Violinist Myriam Cottin-Rack has performed in numerous European countries and in North America.  A consummate chamber music player, she has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician at Banff Center for the Arts, Canada, the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, Château de Champs sur Marne, France, Grand Festival d'Art Slave de Paris, and Schlossweikersheim, Germany.   Last season, she has appeared as a soloist with the South Orange County Chamber Orchestra and in recitals at the San Joaquin Delta College and CSU Stanislaus. Season 2005-2006 will include a concerto performance with the St. John's Chamber Orchestra of Stockton Festival.
 
With a sharp interest in contemporary music, Myriam Cottin-Rack frequently performs new works from contemporary composers. She participated for many years in the Contemporary Music Festival at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, and now often collaborates with the California Composers' Consortium.
 
Ms. Cottin-Rack is also an active orchestra player. A member of the Sacramento Philharmonic, she is also the associate concertmaster of the Stockton Symphony and the Sacramento Metropolitan Orchestra and assistant principal second violin with the Napa Valley Symphony.
 
Ms. Cottin-Rack studied in Lyon and Paris Conservatories in France. She holds a Master of Music in violin performance from the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati where she currently is a Doctorate of Musical Arts candidate. Her teachers include Dorothy Delay, Won Bin Yim, Piotr Milewski and William Fitzpatrick. Other influences include Peter Oundjian, James Tocco, members of the Lasalle and the Tokyo String Quartets.
 
She was a faculty member at Preparatory Department of the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. She now teaches violin and chamber music at San Joaquin Delta College and at California State University Stanislaus.
 
Instrument: Violin made by François Hyppolite Caussin, ca. 1870/80. Bow made by Lucien Schmitt, Grenoble.                                                                             
 
Other Interests: learning about other countries and cultures through travel, discovering California's natural beauties, and sharing good food and wine with family and friends!