Violist Megan Griffin earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Sam Rhodes, Misha Amory, Heidi Castleman, and Hsin-Yun Huang. Awarded the Peter Mennin Award for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music, Megan advocates arts outreach and education and created an initiative that brings Juilliard students to teach underprivileged students in Arusha, Tanzania. Megan has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and has been a member of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. She recently spent a year in Miami performing with the New World Symphony. As an alumna of the Perlman Music Program, Megan has performed chamber music concerts with Itzhak Perlman in New York, Virginia, and New Jersey, and also participated in thePerlman Music Program residency in Israel. Originally from Englewood, Colorado, Megan has performed with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Aurora Symphony Orchestra, and Colorado Symphony. She was a two-time winner of the Young Musicians Foundation of Colorado “Top Performer” prize. As part of her Academy program, Megan teaches in Manhattan at the City College Academy of the Arts.