Audrey L White, international performer and educator, completed her dual graduate degrees in Conducting and Viola Performance at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. While completing her undergraduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Ms. White began teaching string instruments in Boston's Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods.
Ms. White was the founding Director of The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' inner-city outreach program, The Intensive Community Program (ICP) and was also with the Preparatory String Orchestra, where she served as the Conductor for as many seasons. Ms. White began her study of the violin at the age of four and went on to be accepted as one of the first participants of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Project S.T.E.P. She is also a graduate of the GBYSO program as well as the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied viola with Marcus Thompson.
Ms. White holds a silver medal from the NAACP's NEC-ACTSO competition and was awarded the position of Graduate Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for three years in a row. She has studied conducting with Kay George Roberts and has studied and performed in Japan with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki.
As a performer, Ms. White has been a member of the National Center for Afro-American Arts String Ensemble, a violist with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra, and she freelances on both violin and viola throughout the New England region. Ms. White has performed in Austria, Hung
ary, the former Yugoslavia, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Canada. As an educator, she has been a member of the string faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music's School for Preparatory and Continuing Education, the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts Extension Program, and the Stringarten program.
More recently, Ms. White has been the conductor of the Worcester Youth Concert Orchestra which led on tour to Montreal and Quebec in Canada. She is now the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Worcester Youth Orchestras.