Chelsea Sharpe

Audiences and planners can expect a well-trained musician who is prompt, professional, well-dressed, and personable. I truly love engaging with my audience (if appropriate) and believe that live music adds sophistication and beauty to any setting.

Georgia native Chelsea Sharpe is currently a first violinist in the Louisville Orchestra. Previously she completed a fellowship with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL where she served as co-concertmaster on the orchestra’s 2019 tour to Carnegie Hall and was also chosen to perform at the Kennedy Center Honors in DC in dedication to awardee, Michael Tilson Thomas, New World’s founder and music director. Ms. Sharpe is a graduate of the Atlanta Symphony's Talent Development Program and was the subject of a joint Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Georgia Public Television (GPTV) documentary entitled Instrumental Success with her former teacher, ASO violinist Ronda Respess in 2004. She attended the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, studying with Kathleen Winkler for her bachelor's degree, and completed her master's degree at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where she studied with Glenn Dicterow. Ms. Sharpe has spent her summers at Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, Music Academy of the West, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Le Domaine Forget (Quebec), and abroad in the Mediterranean as a violinist for Lincoln Center Stage. She has also played with the Grant Park Orchestra and serves as a substitute for the Atlanta Symphony. She has performed in master classes for the late Joseph Silverstein, Ani Kavafian, James Ehnes, Midori Goto, Augustin Hadelich, and Pamela Frank. Most recently, Ms. Sharpe toured the US with the Sphinx Virtuosi, one of the nation’s most dynamic professional chamber orchestras, highlighting repertoire from underrepresented and new composers as well as serving as cultural ambassadors to communities all over the country. She has also recorded TV/film scores and provided strings for artists such as John Legend and Kanye West.

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