Alison Rolf
Adjunct Professor of Violin
Alison Rolf hails from England where she attended Clare College, Cambridge and the
Royal Academy of Music, where, as a student of Lydia Mordkovitch, she was a recipient
of the Dip RAM- the conservatory's premiere prix for outstanding final recital. She
was a founding member of the London-based Elgin Piano Trio, giving concerts throughout
the UK and abroad including a residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. In
St. Louis, she is involved in a number of chamber groups including the Webster Faculty
String Quartet and the Crusell Quartet, with which she has recently released a CD
on the Centaur label. She is concertmaster of the Webster University Orchestra and
has also performed with Union Avenue Opera, at the Fox theatre and the Muny. Alison
has taught violin and viola at DaySpring School of the Arts in Maryland Heights since
arriving in the US in 2002.
