{"id":10893,"date":"2016-05-24T15:38:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rosebrookmedia.com\/colorado\/orchestra\/tessa-gotman\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:46:52","slug":"tessa-gotman","status":"publish","type":"orchestra_members","link":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/orchestra_members\/tessa-gotman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Gotman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tessa Gotman<\/strong>, a native of St. Louis, MO, began her studies at age 5.\u00a0 She received her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from New England Conservatory of Music in 2008 studying with Lucy Chapman.\u00a0 She then received a Master&#8217;s degree in violin performance from Arizona State University under the instruction of Dr. Jonathan Swartz.\u00a0 In addition to being Dr. Swartz&#8217;s teaching assistant, she was also the first violinist of the Herberger String Quartet from 2008-2010.\u00a0 Additionally, she served as the Concertmaster of the Scottsdale Arts Orchestra in its first season.<\/p>\n<p>Through Arizona State University&#8217;s Quartet Residency program, Ms. Gotman has worked extensively with both the Tokyo and St. Lawrence String Quartets.\u00a0 She has spent her summers at such festivals as Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Encore School for Strings, Weathersfield Music Festival, and Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory in Steamboat Springs, CO.\u00a0 Tessa attended the Aspen Music Festival for four summers, and was a fellowship recipient in 2009.\u00a0 She also participated in the New York Strings Seminar in 2003 where she performed two concerts in Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from ASU, Tessa spent a year living in Boston where she was a freelance violinist and Suzuki teacher.\u00a0 She was a member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Benjamin Zander.\u00a0 She has also performed with the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida.\u00a0 In the summer before joining the Phoenix Symphony in 2011, Tessa was a participant in the inaugural year of the Gesher Music Festival in St. Louis, MO.\u00a0 In her spare time, Tessa really enjoys Bikram yoga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14463,"template":"","instrument":[67],"class_list":["post-10893","orchestra_members","type-orchestra_members","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","instrument-violin"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/orchestra_members\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/orchestra_members"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/orchestra_members"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument?post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}