Barbara Englesberg

President of the Cooperative and a founding member of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Barbara Englesberg served as Assistant Concertmaster for many years and soloed in W. Newell Hendricks' Violin Concerto in 1981.  Ms. Englesberg has performed throughout Boston and the New England area with several musical organizations. She was Concertmaster of the Huntington Orchestra at Northeastern University,  as well as a member of the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra for 18 years, performing in London and throughout the U.S. as well as recording.  Her other performances have included Boston Ballet Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, Coro Allegro, Boston Baroque, Cantata Singers, Masterworks Chorale, Emmanuel Church, and Springfield Symphony. As a chamber musician she has concertized with the Leonora Quartet, the Felice Trio, and Duo Anime with pianist Esther Ning Yau.  She made her debut at the age of 15, playing a movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony in their Youth Concerts.

In addition to performing, Ms. Englesberg maintains a busy teaching schedule, teaching violin and viola at Northeastern University, All-Newton Music School, and her Cambridge studio, as well as coaching chamber music. She studied at UC Santa Barbara, Peabody Conservatory, and Boston University, where she completed her doctorate in music performance in 1987. Her major violin teachers were Joseph Silverstein, Joseph Fuchs, Berl Senofsky, Valerie Kuchment, Mihail Stolarevsky, and Ronan Lefkowitz.