Tori Woodrow’s sensitive and expressive playing has taken her throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Tori has toured France, Switzerland, and the UK three times, performing under the baton of Richard Giangiulio. She has also toured China with the Manhattan Symphonie Orchestra, playing in concert halls from Guangzhou to Shanghai.
Tori has built a versatile career as a freelance violinist. She has worked as a recording artist, and you can hear her on full-length movie soundtracks, commercials, and singer-songwriter albums. As an orchestral musician, Tori has performed with the Vancouver, Charlotte, Charleston, Knoxville, Eugene, and Austin Symphony Orchestras. She has also played with the Carolina Ballet, Central City Opera, and the Colorado Music Festival. Formerly, she served as Principal First Violin of the Fort Collins Symphony, and is now a member of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
In addition to performing, Tori enjoys an active career as a music educator. Tori is a registered teacher with the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and has studied Suzuki pedagogy with Judy Bossout-Gallic and William Starr.
Tori has held faculty positions with Boulder Suzuki Strings in Boulder, Colorado, at the Cary School of Music in Cary, North Carolina, and at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. She frequently serves as a guest chamber music coach with the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, and she runs the Blue Door Violin Studio.
Tori earned her Masters’ Degree in Violin Performance from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the same University, where she was a National Merit Finalist and was awarded a full academic scholarship. She graduated With Highest Honors as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.