Viola

Linda Numagami is currently the violist of the Haven String Quartet and Resident Musician at Music Haven since 2024. She has worked as Acting Associate Principal Viola of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra from 2022-23, and as Acting Section Violist from 2018-2020 in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has also enjoyed performing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Ballet, Sarasota Opera Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony. In the summertime, Linda currently performs as Associate Principal Violist with the Colorado Music Festival.

During her time at Juilliard, Linda was awarded a 2016 Juilliard Community Engagement Grant which enabled her to present a week-long series of concerts and events in her hometown Reading, Pennsylvania.  She was also awarded a 2015 New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musician Grant where she created a multi-disciplinary project called Silence Speaks. More recently, Linda was awarded a 2021 Grow Your Art Project Grant as an alumni of the New England Conservatory of Music.

Numagami earned a Bachelors degree and Masters degree from the New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, respectively, where her teacher was Roger Tapping. She also received a postgraduate degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Jonathan Vinocour. 

In her free time, Linda enjoys hanging out with friends, hula hooping and spending time outdoors.