Nicole Oswald is a violinist in Thirdspace Quartet based in Boise, Idaho. She is also the new Associate Concertmaster in the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra. Nicole was previously a tenured core member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra violin section. Prior to that position, Nicole was concertmaster of The Orchestra Now and a member of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Other notable collaborations include performances and recordings with Gil Shaham, Andrés Cárdenes, Charlie Castleman, Chauncey Patterson and the Bergonzi and Ambrosia String Quartets among others. In addition, she has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States and abroad since the age of 10 when she debuted near her hometown of Boise, Idaho.

As an educator, Nicole maintains a private studio, coaches chamber music, works with youth music organizations, public school music programs and has given workshops for international orchestral institutes. She was faculty at Miami Youth for Chamber Music and has been a guest artist/lecturer at the Castleman Quartet Program in NY and the Modern School of Music and Dance in Santiago, Chile. During the summers, Nicole has appeared onstage at the Princeton Festival, Bard Music Festival, the AIMS festival in Graz, Austria, as well as in the Eastern Festival Orchestra, directed by Gerard Schwarz.

Ms. Oswald’s primary mentors are Charlie Castleman and Andrés Cárdenes. She attended the Eastman School of Music (BM), Frost School of Music (Artist Diploma) and Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Music) where she was the teaching assistant of Mr. Castleman and Mr. Cárdenes respectively. As a teenager, Nicole studied abroad at the Utrechts Conservatory in The Netherlands and in Boise, Idaho with Craig Purdy. For more information about Nicole visit her website at nicoleoswald.com