About

Beth is a young gifted multi-talented musician from the countryside of Western Pennsylvania.

She began her musical studies at the Pittsburgh Music Academy under the tutelage of Margaux Pisula with the Suzuki method for violin at age 6 and viola at age 8.

At age 9, she met fiddler Sean Garee. He introduced her to the world of Bluegrass, Celtic, and Old-Time fiddling. She quickly became obsessed with the Celtic style of fiddling, since she was also an Irish step-dancer. She really enjoyed learning tunes that she and her friends would dance to in class.

In 2017, after winning the Under 12 Fiddle Slow Airs competition at the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Mid-Atlantic Regional Fleadh she began studying Traditional Irish music with Katie Grennan.

Beth has accumulated numerous local, regional, national, and global awards for Irish music on both the fiddle and viola. She has traveled to Ireland 4 times representing the Mid-Atlantic Region at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, which is a week long annual event held every August celebrating Traditional Irish Music. In 2018, she was a violinist in the Pittsburgh Youth Concert Orchestra's European Summer Tour of Italy with performances in Florence, Perugia, and Rome. She was a fiddler for the Studio2Stage Dance Company's performance 'That's Dancing' at the Wilkins Theater, working along side Anthony Davis, Liam O'Sullivan, and Sean O'Brien (2019, 2022). She was a violist for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra (2021-22), and was principal violist for the return performance to Heinz Hall after the 18 month hiatus due to the pandemic shutdown. She embarked on her first US National tour in November with Colony Point Creative Production's "Christmas in Killarney" (2023).

Beth is currently residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a freelance musician, an assistant coach at the Hudson Irish Dance Academy, an IDTANA Feis Musician, fiddler for The North Country Session Players, and a World Qualified Open Championship dancer for the Hudson Irish Dance Academy.