Professor Julie Ribchinsky is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Ronald Leonard, Alan Harris and Paul Katz. An avid performer of solo and chamber works Julie founded the Orion String quartet, which received awards and fellowships to the Aspen, Taos and Bitten–Pears festivals as well as a debut under the auspices of Artist International. As member of the Connecticut Trio in residence at Central CT State University she has performed regular concerts on campus as well as at the New Britain Museum of American Art in addition to several concerts in NY at Weill Hall and abroad in Hamburg, Germany. Julie performed a concerto with the New Britain Symphony in 2000 and will again appear with the symphony in spring 2004 in a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. As a recitalist she has collaborated with pianist Linda Laurent, harpsichordist Linda Skernick and pianist William Braun.

Professor Ribchinsky received a CSU research grant and sabbatical leave in the fall of 2000 to investigate chamber music repertoire and pedagogy. She also was awarded the visiting faculty at Yale fellowship to study with Lawrence Leighton Smith. She has been elected president of the statewide chamber of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and will assume that position in 2004. As president-elect of that body she organized the first statewide chamber music workshop for high school students held at CCSU in the fall of 2003. She regularly presents workshops for the annual Connecticut Music Educators Association and will be presenting a chamber music workshop at that conference in the spring of 2004.

As a member of the faculty at CCSU, professor Ribchinsky teaches applied cello and cello and bass pedagogy and ear training courses. She coaches chamber music and co-directs the university Sinfonietta with Dr. Daniel D'Addio.