Rose Wodarcyk is a violist, educator, and arts administrator based in the Phoenix metro area of Arizona. In June 2024 she joined the Tetra String Quartet, a nonprofit organization that serves the community and empowers the next generation through performing and teaching chamber music. Rose is also a substitute violist with the Phoenix Symphony, and in February 2025 was a featured soloist performing Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, orchestrated as a concerto by Ruth Lomon, with the Women's Orchestra of Arizona.

 

Before moving her career to Arizona, Rose lived in Baltimore, Maryland and was a member of the Peabody String Sinfonia, a conductorless string orchestra with the mission of bringing healing and beauty to Baltimore residents in challenging situations. As well as being a regular performing member of Sinfonia, Rose was Co-Director for the 2021-2022 season. As Co-Director, Rose curated concert programs that blended both classical and popular music, facilitated Sinfonia rehearsals, recruited new members, and engaged with local community organizations to arrange concerts. 

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Rose also enjoys teaching and maintains a private studio of viola and violin students. Besides teaching privately, she is currently a viola sectional coach for the Chandler Unified School District and has served as chamber music coach for the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras, violin/viola instructor for the Bridges Music Program in Baltimore and Baltimore Symphony OrchKids, and strings coach for the Young Artists Orchestra of the Peabody Preparatory. Previously she taught violin and viola lessons at Baltimore School of Music and also held the position of Program Coordinator.

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Rose is the recipient of a Douglas Cox viola scholarship and plays on a Cox viola made in 2016. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Victoria Chiang. While at Peabody, she was the recipient of the Grace Clagett Ranney Memorial Prize for her contributions in the area of chamber music, and the Azalia H. Thomas Prize, awarded to the instrumentalist who graduates with the highest grade-point average in music theory earned throughout the bachelor degree program.

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