Sonja Prychitko

Sonja Prychitko is a professional violinist, strings teacher, and music scholar from Michigan currently residing in Greeley, Colorado. Before relocating to Colorado, Sonja was the Headmaster of Jubilate, director and conductor of the JVO and string ensembles, and taught private lessons. Sonja now serves as an administrative assistant, music librarian, and website manager for Jubilate.

 

Sonja is attending University of Northern Colorado to pursue a Doctor of Arts in Violin Performance with a secondary concentration in Music Business. She is a graduate teaching assistant for Dr. Sarah Off and concertmaster of the University of Northern Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Sonja is also a tenured section violinist with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. 

 

While in Arizona and during the height of Covid, Sonja acquired two Masters degrees from Arizona State University in Violin Performance (2023) and Violin Performance Pedagogy (2021), where she studied violin with Professor Danwen Jiang. In 2023-2024, Sonja was an invited concertmaster and first violinist of the Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra during its inaugural season.

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​​Sonja enjoys playing viola, piano, and guitar, creating transcriptions and arrangements of rock, pop, and folk music for string ensembles, and studying music theory and history. Outside of music, she loves animals, nature, art, photography, traveling, reading, writing, horror movies, and TV shows.

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