Courtney Cameron is a violinist in the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, and is Concertmaster of Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra.  Courtney performs additionally with Elgin Symphony and other area groups, and was recently a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony.  She also plays solo violin for memorial services and wedding ceremonies throughout Chicagoland and is a Private Lesson Teacher for Indian Prairie School District 204. 

Though she grew up in Rochester, NY, Courtney has been studying and performing in the Midwest since 1999:  she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) where she studied violin with Anton Miller, and a Master of Music degree from University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), studying under Sibbi Bernhardsson of the Pacifica Quartet.  She has formerly been a member of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Iowa, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera, Baroque Artists of Champaign, Champaign-Urbana Symphony and was Principal Second Violin of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra.

Aside from a rich orchestral performing background, Courtney also performs chamber music.  As first violinist of the Veritas Quartet at Lawrence University, she received the Kimberly-Clark Foundation Grant to give educational performances for school children around the Fox Valley (WI), was invited to play at the Fox Valley International Community Partnership Conference with Mikhail Gorbachev, and received the Freeman Grant to perform at the Hanoi Conservatory in Vietnam.   

An experienced violin instructor, Courtney was awarded a teaching assistantship at the University of Illinois, and later built a violin studio in Iowa, where she was a teacher for the Cedar Rapids Symphony School.  Courtney additionally taught the outreach programs Third Grade Strings and Fifth Grade Fiddles in the Cedar Rapids Public School District.