Violinist Stacy Wetzel

Violinist Stacy Wetzel attended the Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory, receiving her Bachelor of Music from the University of Washington and her Master of Music from the University of Michigan. She also studied at the Banff Centre. Wetzel was first-place winner in the Washington International Competition and the Buffalo Young Artists Competition, and won the Swiss Radio Prize in the Tibor Varga Competition in Switzerland. She has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic, served as concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra, and performed with ensembles including the Soviet Émigré Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music West, and the Michigan Chamber Players. She also served on the faculties of the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Wetzel joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1987, then moved to Southern California in 1995 and won a position in the second violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2001 she moved up to the first violin section, making her concerto debut with the Philharmonic performing Vivaldi’s “Autumn” from the Four Seasons at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.