Linda Meuret
439-1424
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Violin, Viola, Cello and String Ensembles

Linda was raised in Bozeman, Montana on a horse ranch near town. Her family was very involved with music, as her grandfather played the violin and her grandmother played the piano. The family would often get together and play in a family orchestra. Her mom on violin, dad on trombone, brothers on flute and baritone and of her grandparents on violin and piano. Linda started the violin in the fifth grade in the Bozeman school system.

Linda took private violin lessons from Patricia Reynolds and later from Creech Reynolds who taught at MSU and who was the Bozeman Symphony Conductor. Linda became a member of the Bozeman Symphony when she was in high school and has played with them now throughout her life.

College beckoned and Linda became a geology and music major at a small liberal arts college in Iowa: Cornell College in Mount Vernon. Through the encouragement of her music teachers, she got a music scholarship to go to a summer music school called Bay View Conservatory of Music in Petosky, Michigan. That began her quest to mastering the violin and becoming a serious music student. She then transferred to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to continue to study with her teacher Mr. Cing Tung Chi. Practicing 7-9 hours a day besides her classes at the university continued her education. Then an opportunity arose to study in Tallahassee, Florida after she got an scholarship to go there. After transferring so many times, she finally got her BA in Music- majored in History and Violin Performance.

Linda played professionally throughout Southeast Michigan in pit orchestras, community orchestras, the Ann Arbor Symphony and was concertmaster for the Ann Arbor Summer Symphony for 5 summers.

She was also personnel director, librarian, administrator, stage manager during her tenure with the Ann Arbor Summer Symphony.

Back in Montana, Linda has been a member of the Bozeman, Great Falls, Glacier, Butte and Helena Symphonies. She is currently principal second for the Helena Symphony. She was Concertmaster of the Symphony for 3 years. Linda happily playing for the Montana Power Summer Symphony concerts for the 5 years that it was located on the lawn on Carroll College.

Linda went back to MSU in Bozeman to receive her teacher's certificate in 1991. She then taught in the Flathead Valley as a choral and band teacher. She was a middle school orchestra teacher in Helena. She was also the high school orchestra director and middle school orchestra director and general music teacher in Butte, Montana for 3 years. Currently, she is a very successful private teaching studio of violin, viola and cello students (almost 70) as well as two string ensembles. Linda's groups play all over Southwest Montana and are known as Meuret's Swingin' Strings. She teaches once a week in Butte to a whole bunch of students there too. Linda started up her dream of having a music school in January of 2006 called the Music Makers' Conservatory at 1016 W. Custer in Helena, Montana. Her life is full of music and the sound of music as the Conservatory resonates with the sounds of vocal, piano, string and guitar music. She also has a small recital hall with a 1850's Broadwood Grand Piano.

You can reach Linda by calling her cell number 406-439-1424 or email her at Mail Linda Meuret.

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