Rebecca Albers is the Principal Violist of the Minnesota Orchestra. She has performed throughout the US, Europe and Asia, having made her New York debut at Lincoln Center performing the New York premiere of Samuel Adler’s Viola Concerto. As a chamber musician, she has performed at such festivals as the Rome Chamber Music Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Society‘s Summer and Winter Festivals, and the International Musicians Seminar and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove. Rebecca is a member of Accordo, a Twin Cities-based chamber ensemble comprised of principal players from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra. She is a Distinguished Artist faculty member at Mercer University’s Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, and previously taught at the University of Michigan and at such summer programs as the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program and the North American Viola Institute. Rebecca studied at the Juilliard School with Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. Her childhood teachers were James Maurer, and her mother, Ellie LeRoux.