Lindsey Strand-Polyak

Baroque violin and viola

Lindsey Strand-Polyak lives hyphenated life to go along with her hyphenated name: divided between viola and violin; living in Whidbey Island, WA and Santa Monica, CA. In California, she serves as Artistic Director of Los Angeles Baroque, Adjunct Professor of Baroque Violin at Claremont Graduate University, and Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Baroque Workshop. In Washington, she is Principal Violist for Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and has performed with Pacific MusicWorks, Byron Schenkman & Friends, Salish Sea Early Music Festival and the Whidbey Island Music Festival. She has performed across the country in concert and festival appearances, including Musica Angelica, Baroque Music Montana, Bach Collegium San Diego, American Bach Soloists, Baroque Festival Corona del Mar, Oregon Bach Festival, and fringe concerts of Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals. In the non-baroque world, she has recorded for numerous film and TV scores, and performed with artists across the musical spectrum from Anne Akiko Meyers to Stevie Wonder. She holds a PhD/MM in Musicology and Violin performance from UCLA.

When she’s not out on concert tours, you can find Lindsey practicing at the potter’s wheel and her work on the gallery shelves as a member of the Whidbey Clay Center in Freeland. You can find her work at baroquenpottery.com and on instagram @baroquenpottery.