Kashi Elliott, violin

Currently based in San Francisco, CA, Kashi Elliott began violin lessons at the age of five in Boston, MA. With the help of her violin teacher she started playing with a string orchestra at the age of eight and fell in love with it. She has performed in a wide range of venues, from Boston’s Symphony Hall to Austria’s Schloss Esterházy. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra and has been recorded and interviewed by Pittsburgh's premier classical music station, WQED.

Kashi has an active freelance career working, leading and performing with conductorless orchestra One Found Sound, serving as a studio musician at various recording studios around the Bay Area, and playing smaller chamber music house concerts for Groupmuse. She is passionate about sharing classical music with audiences in a more intimate setting where the music is discussed and explored together. She is also a regular substitute with many of the orchestras around the Bay Area.

​​Kashi completed her graduate degree in Violin Performance with Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in May of 2015. She has studied privately with Janet Packer in Boston, Massachusetts and Cyrus Forough at Carnegie Mellon University.