Dorothy Couper was graduated from New England Conservatory and Tufts University with a dual degree in Viola Performance and English Literature and from Peabody Conservatory with a Graduate Performance Diploma in Viola Performance.  She has studied most recently in Berlin with Felix Schwartz, the principal violist of the Staatskappelle Berlin. Her previous professors include Li-Kuo Chang, VIctoria Chiang, Mark Lakirovich, Roger Tapping, Sel Kardan, and Kim Kashkashian. 

 

        As a freelance orchestral musician, Ms. Couper has played with the Amadeus orchestra, the Apollo Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, the Londontowne Symphony, Symphony No. 1,  the Boston Philharmonic, and the Atlantic Symphony, among others. In addition, she served as assistant principal viola for two symphony tours of Germany with the International Junge Orchesterakademie, and was a member of the Jungen Sinfonie Berlin while studying with Felix Schwartz.

 

        As a chamber musician, Dorothy is a founding member of The Laurel Quartet, and was also a founding member of the Syrinx Ensemble while studying in Boston.  She has also been a regular collaborator with Classical Revolution Baltimore and has been a guest artist with the Evolution Concert Series, the Edwin Trio, the HexaCollective, and the Iris Quartet.  

 

        Ms. Couper also maintains a studio of more than 40 students and splits her time teaching between her home studio and Mike's Music in Ellicott City, where she has also had the opportunity to develop her own chamber music program.  In the past, she has also taught for TWIGS at Baltimore School for the Arts, OrchKids, Baltimore Talent Education Center, and music-intensive camps for the Peabody Preparatory.

 

 

 

 

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