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BSO, and is also the concertmaster of
the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Adkins has served as guest concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic,
the Indianapolis and Oregon Symphonies,
and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra
in Chicago, where she was featured in
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. She has won
first prize in numerous competitions,
including the Stulberg International
String Competition, the ASTA National
Solo Competition and the New England
Conservatory Concerto Competition,
and won second prize in the Irving Klein
International String Competition.
Ms. Adkins has been active in period
instrument performance since the age
of 11, and has been a member of the
Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, the Dallas Bach Society, and currently Pro Musica Rara. With the BSO,
Ms. Adkins has appeared as conductor
and soloist in several baroque programs
of her own design.
The daughter of noted musicologists,
Ms. Adkins is the youngest of eight
children, six of whom are professional
musicians. She received her bachelor’s
summa cum laude from the University of
North Texas and her master’s degree from
the New England Conservatory where she
studied with James Buswell.
When not on stage, she volunteers and
fosters cats and kittens for Small Miracles
Cat and Dog Rescue in Ellicott City.
Ms. Adkins performs on a 1753
Guadagnini graciously loaned by
Marin Alsop.
Madeline Adkins last appeared as a
soloist with the BSO in February 2015,
performing J.S. Bach’s Concerto for
Two Violins with conductor
Nicholas McGegan.

Tiffany Glass:
Painting with Color and Light
SEPTEMBER 5–JANUARY 3
IN THE WINTERTHUR GALLERIES
Enjoy a captivating exhibition that showcases some of the most
iconic and celebrated of Louis C. Tiffany’s works. Included with
admission. Members free.
For more information, please call 800.448.3883 or visit
winterthur.org/tiffanyglass.

Lisa Steltenpohl

Lisa Steltenpohl,
the newly appointed
principal viola of the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, is a graduate of the Curtis
Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.
She has served as principal violist of the

Presented by
The exhibition at Winterthur is organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.
Dragonfly hanging shade (detail), Tiffany Studios, New York City, ca. 1905. The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, N.Y.

Winterthur is nestled in Delaware’s beautiful Brandywine Valley
on Route 52, between I-95 and Route 1. Take I-95 to Exit 7 in Delaware.
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