Charlene Bishop began her violin studies at the age of six and was accepted into the Music Advancement Program (MAP) at the Juilliard School. She furthered her studies at the Mannes Pre-College and College of Music with Ann Setzer where she received her BA in Violin Performance and participated at Kinhaven and Fredonia summer music camps as well as the prestigious Meadowmount music camp. Through the years, Charlene has performed at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, Fiddlefest in Zurich, Switzerland, the Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium and has collaborated with artists such as Arnold Steinhardt, Wyclef Jean, Madonna, N’Sync, Beres Hammond in Jamaica, and many more. Charlene currently freelances throughout the New York City area.

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Charlene has gained a wide range of teaching experience over the years. She currently teaches at Opus 118-Harlem School of Music (where she is an alumni) and the Thurnauer School of Music in Tenafly, NJ. She has been teaching at the Elisabeth Morrow School Summer String Festival for twelve years and usually sends her own private students to participate in. In the past, she has taught at the Arlington High School in Poughkeepsie, NY where she conducted violin sectionals for the Orchestra, and was also teaching private lessons to the violin students of the Poughkeepsie area. She has experience teaching children as young as 4 years old (which is a definite strength of hers) all the way to the ages of adulthood. Some of her students have been accepted to the Berklee School of Music and the Special Music School in NYC, as well as Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Middle School Jazz Academy.