Linda Numagami
Administrator
Linda Numagami joined the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as acting section-violist in 2018. In addition, she has also performed with the San Francisco Symphony, and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. As an active chamber musician, Numagami has performed with the Ceres Quartet, the Boston Symphony Orchestra Prelude Series and Music For Food (San Francisco and New York). She has collaborated with Kim Kashkashian, Natasha Brofsky, Daniel Phillips, Ian Swensen and other reknowned artists.
As a teacher, Numagami received a Juilliard Morse Teaching Fellowship to teach at the Harmony Program in New York. During her time at Juilliard, Linda was awarded a Juilliard Community Engagement Grant which enabled her to present a week-long series of concerts in her hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania. Numagami, along with flutist, and Reading native, Katie Althen, brought their music to several assisted-living facilities that lacked activity budgets. In addition, Linda also created a multi-disciplinary project called Silence Speaks. Silence Speaks focused on raising awareness about domestic and sexual violence. Through music, poetry and survivor stories, the goal of this program was to shed light on a pervasive issue in our society and give a voice to those who were silenced.
Numagami earned a Bachelors degree and Masters degree from the New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, respectively, where her primary teacher was Roger Tapping. She also was coached regularly with the Borromeo String Quartet, the Juilliard String Quartet, and Donald Weilerstein. She also received a postgraduate degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Jonathan Vinocour.