Lisa Whitters

Lisa earned a bachelors degree in violin performance and music education at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY. During the fall of her senior year, she met Julian, an engineering student from Belfast, Northern Ireland, while on a study abroad program in Birmingham, England. After post graduate violin studies at Cincinnati Conservatory, she married Julian and they lived and worked in Birmingham for 10 years. After three years working as a traveling string teacher in the Birmingham Schools, she had their first four children and transitioned to teaching private music lessons while Julian worked as an engineer. When they were 7, 5, 3, and 1, they moved to the Grand Rapids area, where they later had three more children.