About Stephanie
Dr. Stephanie Ezerman is a violinist, educator, and conductor who has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. She currently serves as Principal Second Violin of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she was Associate Concertmaster of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and held leadership positions with Cap Rock Pro Musica, the Abilene Philharmonic, and the Big Spring Symphony. She has also performed with the Houston Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Memphis Symphony, New World Symphony, and Spoleto Festival USA.
Stephanie performs regularly with her husband, cellist Dr. Alex Ezerman, as the Ezerman Duo and has been a frequent guest on the Sitkovetsky and Friends Chamber Series and the Dragons Chamber Music Series. Her career has encompassed orchestral, chamber, solo, and recording work, with recordings released on the Double Time, Innova, and DaVinci labels.
Stephanie served on the faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont, from 2006–2018. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Minnesota and both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Texas Tech University, where she served as teaching assistant to violinist John Gilbert. Her collegiate teaching experience includes positions at High Point University and Guilford College, as well as teaching string literature and pedagogy at UNC Greensboro. She has also taught at UNCG Summer Music Camp and Texas Tech Band and Orchestra Camp.
A registered Suzuki teacher with training in Books 1–10, Stephanie has more than 30 years of experience teaching students from age three through adult. She co-founded and directed Suzuki Talent Education of the Lubbock Region before moving to North Carolina, where she later taught Suzuki in the Schools at Greensboro Day School. She is now co-founder and co-director of Suzuki Talent Education of the Piedmont (STEP Collaborative), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization offering Suzuki group classes, community performances, summer programs, and international tours.
Stephanie’s educational work extends beyond the Suzuki studio. She serves as Education Specialist for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and conducts Youth Strings with the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra. She is also co-director and Greensboro Symphony Orchestra representative for the Lillian Rauch Beginning Strings Program, a partnership between the GSO and UNC Greensboro that brings string instruction to elementary schools where access has historically been limited.
Her experience as a professional performer, collegiate educator, Suzuki teacher, conductor, and community music educator allows her to help students build strong technical and musical foundations while understanding the realities, and possibilities, of performing, collaborating, and growing as musicians over time.
Teaching the Whole Musician
Stephanie’s teaching brings together a lifetime of advanced violin study, an active professional performing career, and more than three decades of working with students of all ages in private studios, classrooms, workshops, ensemble programs, and collegiate settings. Her teaching is rooted in the Suzuki philosophy and increasingly informed by her ongoing study of Somatic Experiencing and trauma-aware practices.
She considers the whole musician: how breath, balance, movement, emotion, attention, and the nervous system affect both the sound we produce and our experience of making music. She is especially interested in helping musicians work with, rather than against, the nervous-system responses that can interfere with performance, confidence, and flow.
Private lessons provide space for curiosity, experimentation, and mistakes while maintaining high musical standards. Each student receives individualized guidance and a clear practice plan shaped around their needs, goals, and stage of development. Group classes give students opportunities to learn (and sometimes fail!) together as they discover how a roomful of individual sounds can grow from chaos into shared music. Through both experiences, students develop technique and musicianship alongside greater awareness, resilience, confidence, and trust in themselves.
Community is essential to this work. Students learn to listen and respond to one another, contribute their own voices, and experience music as a form of connection. Great performances grow from thoughtful preparation, strong relationships, and an environment in which students feel supported enough to take risks.
Former Students’ Paths
Across more than 30 years of teaching, Stephanie’s students have gone on to build meaningful lives both in music and far beyond it. Former students have held orchestral and leadership positions with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Salisbury Symphony, Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, and Blueprint Arts Symphony, among others.
Her students have participated in programs including Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, UNCG Summer Music Camp, TTU Band & Orchestra Camp, STEP Collaborative’s Triad Summer Strings, and Bluebird Family Fiddle Camp. They have continued their studies at institutions including the Colburn Conservatory, University of Minnesota, Vanderbilt University, UNC Greensboro, UNC School of the Arts, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, McGill University, and others.
Many of Stephanie’s students have become teachers themselves, establishing thriving studios in Seattle, Minneapolis, North Carolina, South Carolina, and communities throughout the country. Their work has also included teaching positions at Bob Jones University, as well as teaching assistantships at UNC Greensboro and Texas Tech University. Others have carried the creativity, discipline, curiosity, and confidence developed through Suzuki lessons into careers in genetics, psychotherapy, military service, professional dance, and many other fields.
Stephanie is equally proud of every path. Whether a student becomes a professional musician, a teacher, a scientist, a therapist, a dancer, a member of the military, or an adult who carries a lasting love of music, the goal is the same: to help each person grow into a capable, curious, and wholehearted human being.