Our Musicians

Sought after as a passionate and dynamic performer, Rebecca Willie maintains a busy career as a chamber and orchestral musician. Ms. Willie currently resides in Greensboro, NC where she serves as Assistant Concertmaster of the Winston-Salem Symphony.  In her role with WSS she is frequently featured in chamber music performances on their Symphony Unbound series.  In the summers, she performs as a member of the New Hampshire Music Festival.  In 2015, Ms. Willie joined ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and now serves as Assistant Concertmaster.

Before relocating to North Carolina, Ms. Willie was a member of the Nashville Symphony for 12 seasons working under conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Sir Neville Mariner, and Peter Oundjian, recording numerous CD’s on Naxos, Decca, and Deutsche Grammophon labels which earned 14 GRAMMY® Awards including Joan Tower’s Made in America, Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Ben Folds’ Piano Concerto which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical and Classical Crossover charts.  Ms. Willie holds a Bachelor’s of Music from the University of Cincinnati and was a member of the New World Symphony, the orchestral academy in Miami, FL, from 2000-2002.

In addition to performing, Ms. Willie dips her toe into the arts administration world, serving as Executive Director of Music for a Great Space, a chamber music series in Greensboro.