Lydia Umlauf

Lydia Umlauf, a native of Indiana, joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2014. Lydia received her bachelor’s degree at Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music studying with Alexander Kerr. She is an alumnus of the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy program for gifted pre-college musicians where she studied with Desiree Ruhstrat and prior to her studies in Chicago, Lydia took violin lessons with Tamara Ringas in Indiana.

Passionate about traveling in all its forms, Lydia has participated as a violinist and singer in the Flying Carpet Festival in Mardin Turkey, a 10-day mobile circus and arts festival for children living in conflict zones, since 2022.

She has attended the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival orchestral academy in Germany, the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, and the Britt Festival under the direction of Teddy Abrams as well as being a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival since 2019. Most recently, Lydia served as associate principal second violin for one season in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic where she regularly performed in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

As a result of both her love of classical music and her love of culture and night life, Lydia founded a successful classical chamber music series in 2017 called Mozart in the Bar where small chamber groups play concerts in the Dallas bar scene.

When not in rehearsal or traveling, Lydia enjoys a good book, scuba diving, being amongst trees, food, philology, and parties.