Summer Lusk graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2012 with a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance and was the recipient of several awards, including the Conservatory Dean’s Scholarship and a National Merit Scholarship. While attending Oberlin, she participated in the conservatory’s Student Teaching/Non-Music Major Instruction program, providing violin lessons to children and adults in the local community, as well as other Oberlin students.

In 2013, Summer continued her post-graduate education at the University of Colorado—Boulder, working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the String Department, and earned her Master of Music in Violin Performance in 2015. During her two years at CU, she was also a Violin Section Coach and String Mentor with the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras.

Summer began teaching violin lessons around 2007, offering instruction in violin/viola, piano, music theory, and ear training in her home state of Illinois. Since then, she has built and maintained a practice teaching violin lessons in various states she has lived in—Illinois, Ohio, and now Colorado.

Her performances have taken her across the globe to China, Singapore, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, and Barbados, as well as numerous cities across the U.S. Some notable experiences include playing in Natalie Merchant’s orchestra at CU’s own Macky Auditorium (2015); a string quartet performance at the White House (2012); and a recording session with Alice Cooper bassist, Kip Winger (2012). As a multi-instrumentalist, she has also achieved accomplishments as a pianist, including a gig as one of the keyboardists/synth players for the Decease film tour in New York City (2012) and a solo performance with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra (2006).