Mary Ellen Goree will walk us through on how she became the violin player she is today. 

Ms. Goree is currently the principal second violin in the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra and the principal second violin in the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. Goree considers herself to have had a lucky start with violin, studying with Alice Joy Lewis and Doris Gazda before attending Oberlin. After receiving her degrees in violin performance and mathematics, she continued her music education at Indiana University. After a six-month appointment as associate concertmaster of the Yamagata Symphony in Japan, Ms. Goree accepted a position as co-concertmaster of the Shreveport Symphony in Louisiana and violinist in the symphony’s Premier Quartet. In 1988, she joined the San Antonio Symphony as a member of the second violin section, moving to the assistant principal second chair in 1989 and receiving her current appointment as principal second violin in 1991.