Yasmin Vitalius

Yasmin Craig Vitalius received her Bachelor of Arts in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford University with a double concentration in violin performance and composition. Upon graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study Turkish Folk music in Ankara, Turkey where she also performed with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. She received her Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music under teachers Zvi Zeitlin and Ilya Kayler. Other principal teachers were Zoya Leybin and Server Ganiyev. Ms. Vitalius was a fellow with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas from 2001-2004.

Yasmin Vitalius is a member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and maintains a full private studio. She is on violin faculty at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine and coaches string sectionals for the University of Southern Maine Youth Ensembles. She is a core member of the Assisi Performing Arts Festival that plays chamber music during the summer in Assisi, Italy. Yasmin Vitalius is the co-director of the New England Suzuki Institute and a regular guest clinician at the Maine Suzuki Association’s Fall Festival.

Yasmin lives in Yarmouth, Maine with her husband Brit and two children.