Violinist and fiddler Lily Honigberg graduated from NEC with a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Violin Performance in May 2018. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at NEC in Contemporary Improvisation, studying with Hankus Netsky, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Liz Knowles, and Ran Blake. Lily spent 2016-2019 touring with her band Night Tree, an acoustic sextet that performed original and improvised folk-based music that formed in 2016 after winning the Conservatory’s WildCard Honors Ensemble. She spent the summers of 2015 and 2016 traveling across Europe working and learning folk music from Ireland, England, Hungary and Austria. Lily also delightedly performs regularly with her father, cellist in the National Symphony Orchestra in DC, in settings that range from duets to chamber music to soloing with orchestra, appearing regularly in the DC and Chicago areas. Lily has played in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and has headlined the Korro Musikfestival in Sweden.

Lily works with students of all ages of varying skill levels on learning different ways of playing the violin. Whether you are interested in learning classical violin repertoire, reading music, or how to learn music by ear, Lily brings skills from her diverse backgrounds to her teaching style on the violin.