Nicole Oswald is currently a violinist of the Treasure Valley String Quartet based in Boise, Idaho. Previously, she was a tenured core member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra violin section. Prior to this position, Nicole was concertmaster of The Orchestra Now and a member of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Other notable collaborations include performances with Gil Shaham, Andrés Cárdenes, Charlie Castleman and Chauncey Patterson. In addition, she has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States and abroad since the age of 10 when she debuted near her hometown of Boise, Idaho. 

As an educator, Nicole maintains a private studio, coaches chamber music, works with youth music organizations, public school music programs and has given workshops for international orchestral institutes. Most recently, Nicole has been invited to perform and teach at the College of William and Mary, Old Dominion University and Christopher Newport University. She was faculty at Miami Youth for Chamber Music and has been a guest artist/lecturer at the Castleman Quartet Program in NY and the Modern School of Music and Dance in Santiago, Chile. 

Ms. Oswald’s primary mentors are Charlie Castleman and Andrés Cárdenes. She attended the Eastman School of Music (BM), Frost School of Music (Artist Diploma) and Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Music) where she was the teaching assistant of Mr. Castleman and Mr. Cárdenes respectively. As a teenager, Nicole studied abroad at the Utrechts Conservatory in The Netherlands and in Boise, Idaho with Craig Purdy.