Mrs. Deirdre Hutton

voice: (864) 525-6932

e-mail: deirdre.hutton@furman.edu

Deirdre Hutton has performed at numerous music festivals throughout the United States including the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival.  In addition, she has performed with numerous orchestras in the United States and Europe including the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida, the Schlossfestspiele Chamber Orchestra in Heidelberg, Germany, the North Carolina Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, Eastern Music Festival Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Knoxville Symphony. She was assistant concertmaster of the Roanoke Symphony.

Deirdre studied at the Eastman School of Music with Oleh Krysa and earned her Master’s degree with Roland and Almita Vamos at Northwestern University.  While at Northwestern she was teaching assistant to the Vamos’ and taught violin to undergraduate students. In addition, she studied in London under Itzhak Rashkovsky while a member of Haydn Chamber Symphony of London and as concertmaster of the Imperial Collegium Musicum Ensemble. In addition to teaching violin at Furman since 2005, she plays in the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and maintains an active private teaching studio.