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Kira Blumberg, violist, is originally from Hyde Park, New York, where she began studying the violin at the age of four and switched to the viola six years later. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University, where she studied with Michael Zaretsky and Steven Ansell, and a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Toby Appel.

Currently Blumberg is Principal Viola of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. She played with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Orchestra for seven years and freelances extensively throughout the greater Los Angeles area. She was a member of ensembleGREEN, a new music group that specialized in music written after 1980 by Los Angeles area composers for ten years. She is Artist Teacher of viola at the University of Redlands, is on faculty at Â鶹´«Ã½ and Cal Poly Pomona, and maintains a large private teaching studio at her home. She is active in the recording industry, working on many movies including A Beautiful Mind, Bourne Identity and Panic Room. She can be seen in the movie Get Smart and in the most recent Geico commercial featuring the Triangle Soloist. She is on the board of the Southern California Viola Society and has been the treasurer and secretary for the Los Angeles chapter of the American String Teacher’s Association. She is married to Eric Lindholm, the Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Music at Â鶹´«Ã½.