This is Melody Brubaker’s third year on the violin faculty at the Csehy Summer School of Music. Born and raised in Hershey, PA, she was a violin student of Odin Rathnam, concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and student of Dorothy DeLay. She also studied violin with Melinda Daetsch at Elizabethtown College. A graduate of Lancaster Bible College, Miss Brubaker earned a Bachelor of Science in Bible along with her Pennsylvania State and ACSI Music Education certification K-12. During college, she studied violin with Michael T. Jamanis as a scholarship student in the Institute program at the PA Academy of Music, where she was concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Summer music festivals have included full scholarships to the PA Governor’s School for the Arts and the Music Naturally Summer Institute at the PA Academy of Music.
Currently Miss Brubaker performs regularly with the York Symphony Orchestra and Allegro, the chamber orchestra of Lancaster. She has also performed with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. She is a private violin instructor and free-lance musician in the greater Lancaster area. Additionally, she is pursuing a Masters in Music Performance at West Chester University.
Professionally, Miss Brubaker is a member of the Music Educators National Conference and the American String Teachers Association. Through ASTA, she was recently honored as the 2010 Outstanding New String Teacher for the Pennsylvania/Delaware chapter. She teaches strings in the Lower Dauphin School District in Hershey, PA.