Nancy Ewing-Wood

Nancy Ewing-Wood,our fourth and fifth grade Strings Teacher, grew up in Ohio and migrated to California as a teenager. While finishing her B.M. at San Francisco Opera she met her husband, Chris, who was head of the sound department. After the Loma Prieta earthquake and the birth of her third child, now a freshman at Nevada City High School, they decided to relocate to Grass Valley where she has taught at Sierra String Studio since 1990. She plays professionally in Chico, Sacramento, and just completed a tour in New York City where she played in Carnegie Hall.

Nancy Ewing-Wood, Acting Principal

Nancy Ewing-Wood, principal violist, Adriel Taslim, 2008 winner of the Young Artist Audition, High School Division, who performed that night, and Helga Ruge, chair, Young Artists Auditions.

Nancy Ewing-Wood, Asst Principal

Nancy Ewing-Wood - Strings

Currently director of Sierra String Studio in Grass Valley, Ms. Ewing-Wood formerly freelanced in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory.She plays with the Music in the Mountains Orchestra, the Chico Symphony, the Apollo Orchestra, and is affiliated with the Villa Sinfonia in San Francisco.

Nancy Ewing-Wood, Viola Nancy Ewing-Wood was an active free-lance violist and teacher in the Bay Area before moving to Nevada County in 1990. She appeared with the Oakland, San Jose, Marin Berkeley, and California Symphony Orchestras, as well as with Western Opera Theater and Lamplighters. She holds a B.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Don Erhlich, Gennady Kleiman, and Dan Kobialka. She has played with all the valley orchestras from Chico to Modesto and is presently Director of the Sierra String Studio, starting students in a Suzuki-Style program and conducting her own orchestra made up of students and professionals.