- Instrument Second Violins
Violinist Ari Dubin was born and raised in central Iowa, beginning her musical studies at age three. As an orchestral and chamber musician, she has performed throughout North America and Europe at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. A member of the Des Moines Symphony since 2022, she has previously played with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, and served as principal second violin of The Orchestra Now in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Ari is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Maryland, and Brandeis University, where she was a Leonard Bernstein Scholar. Her primary teachers include Andrés Cárdenes, David Salness, Julie Fox Henson, and the Lydian String Quartet.
