Melinda Rice is glad to return to the Pasadena All City Orchestra this year after working as a violin coach with the students last year. She also serves as a violin teaching artist at the EXPO site of Youth Orchestra LA, in collaboration with the Harmony Project. She is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, and has written curriculum for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s School Partner’s Programs. Melinda plays violin and viola and enjoys writing music.