Danielle Rosaria Cummins is dedicated to bringing forth truth and beauty through the art of music performance, composition, and education. She has played throughout Southern California with ensembles such as Musica Angelica, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Long Beach Opera, Con Gioia, the Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra, and the Riverside County Philharmonic, as well as in Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary with the Classical Music Festival. While pursuing her bachelor’s degree in music from the University of La Verne and later her masters and DMA in Historical Performance Practice – Violin, at Claremont Graduate University, Dr. Cummins studied violin performance with Todor Pelev, first prize winner of Bulgaria’s National Violin Competition. She is the assistant concertmaster of the Riverside Lyric Opera Company and teaches at the Claremont Community School of Music, the University of La Verne, and Cal State University San Bernardino. Her beginning violin method book Discovering Violin was published in September 2010 and is available through Santorella Publications. For more information, visit www.violinevents.com.