Laura Palm

Laura Palm is currently a violin and viola student of Prof. Todd Phillips (Orion Quartet) in the Doctor of Musical Arts Program at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Born in Germany in 1987, Laura began her violin studies at the age of four and made her first public appearance only a year later. She skipped two years in elementary and high school and spent a semester at Haverford College, Haverford, PA, studying violin, chamber music, and Chemistry. In 2006 Laura enrolled in the medical school of the Private University of Witten/Herdecke (Germany) where she graduated with a medical degree in May 2013. Meanwhile, she earned an undergraduate degree in violin performance and pedagogy at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany, under the tutelage of Prof. Yamei Yu. She graduated from Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia with a Master’s of Music, where she studied with Helen Kwalwasser, Lambert Orkis, and Charles Parker. During her time in Philadelphia, she played with the Symphony in C. As a teaching artist, she taught group classes and private lessons in the education program and summer camp. She coached the violin and viola sections of the Symphony in C Youth Orchestra. Additionally, Laura was appointed adjunct faculty and Artist in Residence at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, where she taught private lessons and chamber music in the pre-college program and managed the pre-college orchestras and chamber ensembles. 

Laura has performed as a soloist and member of chamber ensembles and orchestras all over Europe, in the USA, and Japan. She was co-president of the Rutgers Global Health Institute Student Council and received the Rutgers Student Impact Award for her commitment to global health education. Laura has taught classes and workshops about musicians’ health to college students and professionals in different conservatories and music schools in Germany for several years.