Jennie S. Baccante, a Grammy Award winning San Diego native, earned her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Southern California with Robert C. Lipsett and her Master of Music degree in Violin Performance from The Juilliard School in New York under the tutelage of Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Jennie has held positions with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony and has played with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Canadian Opera Company, Detroit Symphony, Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and the Toronto Symphony among others. Currently, Jennie is a member of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra in Toronto, the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Santa Fe Symphony.