Andrea Dawson joins the MTSU Music Faculty as Assistant Professor of Violin in the Fall of 2007. A recent addition to the Stones River Chamber Players, she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Mexico. Before moving to Tennessee in 2007, she was Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Texas – Pan American and Associate Concertmaster of the Valley Symphony Orchestra in south Texas.

Dawson received her Masters in Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the coveted Performer’s Certificate. She also received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology, with a minor in French, and a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Oberlin College. Her principal teachers include Lynn Blakeslee, Camilla Wicks, Taras Gabora, Kathleen Winkler, and Robert Koff.