Lauren Deutsch is presently a second year doctoral student in the violin performance program at UCLA. She currently studies with Movses Pogossian and Guillaume Sutre, and she completed her master's degree with Lorenz Gamma. Lauren also holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Kinesiology and Biomechanics. For her master's thesis, Lauren combined her love for music and science researching the biomechanics of violin players under the guidance of Dr. Jill McNitt-Gray. While Lauren enjoys performing, she also loves teaching. Currently, she teaches with the Suzuki Talent Education Program in Pasadena, where she maintains a private studio of over 30 students ages three and up. In addition, she has been teaching at the college level as a teaching assistant for the UCLA string pedagogy class for the past three years and was on faculty at the UCLA Summer Music Academy for the past two summers.

This year, Lauren and her sister, Lindsay, co-founded a non-profit organization Classics Alive to encourage, mentor, and motivate kids to become involved in classical music. You can visit Lauren's website at www.laurendeutsch.com.