Mallory Phillips holds a Master of Music degree from UNC Greensboro and a Bachelor of Music degree from Converse University, majoring in Violin Performance. She regularly plays as a section violinist in the North Carolina Symphony and has previously been a section violinist with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, a substitute violinist for the Charlotte Symphony, and was the Principal Second Violin of the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. She has been a featured soloist with the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium, and the Converse Symphony Orchestra. Mallory has performed at numerous summer festivals, including the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC and the Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, SC. In addition to Mallory’s active performing career, she has also kept up an active violin studio, teaching at the Lawson Academy of the Arts in Spartanburg, SC from 2014-2016, and privately out of her home for the past 8 years. She has also led numerous college and high school level violin sectional rehearsals, including violin sectionals for the Senior High School Orchestra at UNCG Summer Music Camp in 2019, where she was a counselor and rehearsal assistant, the UNCG Symphony Orchestra, and the Converse Symphony Orchestra, and working as a regular sectional coach with the Triangle Youth Symphony. In addition to classical music, Mallory enjoys playing a number of different genres, including bluegrass and irish fiddle, and also writes and performs her own songs and loves recording music with her husband in their home studio. In her free time she enjoys spending time at home with her husband, Brett, and their 3 cats - Fiona, Yoshi, and Banjo. On a perfect day you can find her cuddled up with a cat and a good book and working on her Pokémon decks.