Meredith Arksey

Professor Emerita of Music

Dr. Meredith Arksey, Associate Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington State University in Pullman WA, was the coordinator of the string area and taught studio violin and viola to undergraduate and graduate string majors from 1995 until 2021. After studying with Kelly Farris, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin performance from the University of Michigan where she was a student of Camilla Wicks, and a string pedagogy graduate teaching assistant under Robert Culver. She received her doctorate in Violin Performance from Michigan State University with I-Fu Wang. She performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician, including Brahms’ Double Concerto with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra and guest violinist and violist with the Spokane String Quartet. Since 1989 she has been a member of the Silver Bay String Quartet, a group that has a summer residency in New York State. She was also the violinist in the Palouse Trio. She is Past-President, and current board member of the Washington American String Teachers Association. She is an adjudicator for ASTACAP and WMEA, and has served as clinician at numerous competitions, master classes and festivals throughout the United States. Before joining the faculty at WSU, she was the Artist-in-Residence at Alma College, Alma Michigan, and spent her summers studying and performing at U.S. and European music festivals. She is a contributor to THE STRAD Online Magazine. Currently living in Spokane, she teaches violin and viola, continues to serve as co-concert master of the Washington-Idaho Symphony, and often performs with the Spokane Symphony.