Phoebe Gelzer-Govatos holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from Stetson and Austin Peay State universities, where her principal teachers were Routa Kroumovitch and Alvaro Gomez. She subsequently received additional instruction in historical performance through the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Oberlin College’s Baroque Performance Institute, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the Berwick Academy of the Oregon Bach Festival. As a baroque specialist, she is a member of period instrument ensembles l'Invenzione, the Michigan Bach Collective, and Ensemble Affect, and has also played with Louisville-based Bourbon Baroque, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Ms. Gelzer-Govatos is a frequent guest artist and clinician with early music ensembles at the University of Michigan and Grand Valley State University, and has been invited to lead workshops and masterclasses in historical style and technique at Bowling Green State and Youngstown State universities. An active modern violinist as well, she performs with a number of orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout Michigan, including the Detroit Opera, Ann Arbor Symphony, Lansing Symphony, and Kalamazoo Symphony orchestras, and presently holds the position of principal second violin in the Adrian Symphony Orchestra. Phoebe resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she maintains a private violin studio, coaches chamber music at the Rudolf Steiner High School, and likes to involve herself in creative endeavors of all kinds.