Linda Kline, D.M.A.

About Linda

Linda Kline is the Professor of Viola at Boise State University, where she also serves as Department Chair for Music. In the summer, she teaches and performs at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in Michigan. Kline holds viola performance degrees from Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Memphis. Recent performances include the Virtuosi Festival in Recife, Brazil, solo recitals in Seattle and Memphis, and collaborations with the Kandinsky Trio, the Rothko Trio, and the Blakemore Trio. She is a member of the IRIS Orchestra and the Boise Philharmonic, and has performed with the Hawai’i Symphony, the Strings Festival, the Memphis Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Erie Philharmonic, the Youngstown Symphony, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and the Garth Newel Chamber Orchestra. In 2018 Kline presented her research on Tartini’s The Art of Bowing at the American Viola Society Festival in Los Angeles.

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