Linda Laderach

Professor of Music

Specialization
Violin; Baroque violin; viola; Beethoven piano and violin sonatas

Linda Laderach combines a performing career on both Baroque and modern violin with her teaching career at Mount Holyoke.

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Laderach performed with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16. She won concerto competitions and performed the Barber Violin Concerto at Indiana University, where she was a student of Urico Rossi and Josef Gingold, and the Brahms Violin Concerto at Ohio University, where she was a student of Howard Beebe. Laderach studied chamber music with Janos Starker, William Primrose, Albert Lazan, Fritz Magg, and Leighton Conkling. She also attended and performed at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Aspen Music Festival, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, and the University of Michigan in a weeklong master class with Henryk Szeryng.

Laderach has played many solo as well as chamber music concerts at Mount Holyoke and in the Five College area. Since 1989, she has toured the United States, Europe, and Asia with colleague Larry Schipull, and she recently completed a CD of Beethoven sonatas that is available on the Folger Library Bard label. Laderach has also recorded a demo of an interactive CD-ROM program on historically informed performance.

A recent yearlong sabbatical included a five-week concert tour of the western United States and Hong Kong, participation in the Starling-DeLay Violin Teaching Symposium at the Juilliard School of Music and in a Five College Video Conferencing Workshop, creation of a Web site for violin and viola, the development of a Web-based course for her studio class, and completion of the Pratt Hall renovation project, which she chaired.

Laderach has taught in the Toledo Public Schools and at Smith College, Ohio University, Bowling Green State University Extension Division, the Eastern Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival.

News Links:

"Bard Records Releases Beethoven Sonatas Featuring MHC Musicians Linda Laderach and Larry Schipull," College Street Journal, February 11, 2002

"Practice Made Virtually Perfect: New High-Tech Room Lets Students Play Music in Virtually Any Venue," Vista, fall/winter 2000