Rowan Bene Bio

Rowan Bene’, 15, began playing violin at the age of seven. A native of Gallatin, Tennessee, she has performed locally with the Nashville Suzuki players since starting lessons. She has had the opportunity to open for the Nashville symphony. Rowan is passionate about using music to engage with her community, performing at the St. Nicholas Ball, Breakfast with Santa (a charity event for BOWS & BALLCAPS, helping fund the organization’s constant supply of bows, ballcaps and other accessories to kids who are going through cancer at 10 children’s hospitals across the US), and at the Hearth, a local assisted living center.

She also performed at Monthaven Cultural Arts Center at the opening of a local artist exhibit. As an avid orchestral musician, she has performed in the Ellis Middle School orchestra her 6th, 7th, and 8th grade years, and currently performs with the Hendersonville High School Orchestra for 9th grade (earning 1st chair 2nd violin). She auditioned for Mid-state Orchestra in 2021 placing 64 of 130 students to audition. She has participated in multiple recitals as well as the Master’s Creative Arts Camp June 2020, 2021, and 2022. She also performed at Carnegie Hall in New York as part of the Middle School Honors Performance Series in June 2023. Miss Bene’ has worked with Ms. Sherri Grossman and Ms. Catrina Tulowiecki during her years in the middle school orchestra, Ms. Sara Koly in High School orchestra, and under the tutelage of Mr. Thornton Cline since age seven.

Recently, Rowan auditioned for the High School Honors Performance Series and was selected to perform this July at London’s Royal Festival Hall (there were around 1100 submissions/auditions and only around 300-350 were selected).

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