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[ Katherine Black Shields ]
 Katherine Black Shields holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts and
Master’s in viola performance from Arizona State University, and the
Bachelor’s from Northwestern University. A native of Chicago, she began
her viola studies in the Glencoe, IL public schools and attended Indiana
University. Her principal teachers include William Magers, Lee Lane,
William Schoen, Robert Swan, George Janzer, and Karen Tuttle.
Dr. Shields currently plays with the Arizona Opera Orchestra and has
been a member of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix String
Quartet, Flagstaff Festival Orchestra and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.
Before returning to the Phoenix area in 1992, she spent eight years in
Orlando where she performed solo and chamber music programs while a
member of the Florida Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Shields has been a faculty
member at the string chamber music camp “Chamber Music in the Mountains
at Echo Glen” (Mt. Lemmon, AZ).
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