Alisa Rose, violin

Alisa is from Verona, Wisconsin where she started playing the violin at the age of three and won her first fiddle competition at age five. Involved in many different musical genres, Alisa is a member of the Picasso Quartet, the Real Vocal String Quartet, Homespun Rowdy, 49 Special, and A.J. Roach and the Strange Pilgrims. She has performed many times at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and has also appeared at the Strawberry Music Festival, Olympic Music Festival, Carter Fold Festival, Blue Highways Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, Cleveland's Reinberger Chamber Hall, Carnegie Hall, and on PBS' "Songs of the Mountains." She has also performed with Martha Katz, Ian Swenson, Train, Bauhaus, ALO, Matt Bauer, Rachel Ries, Nels Andrews, Anais Mitchell, Anna Egge, and Josh Ritter. Alisa received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in chamber music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with Camilla Wicks and Bettina Mussumeli. Current director of the SF Conservatory in the School's program at Starr King Elementary School in San Francisco, she also teaches at the San Francisco Friend's School and maintains a private studio. She has authored a book that is used in her educational program for second through fifth graders. Alisa joined Quartet San Francisco in 2009.